Jeffrey to ‘take the political bull by the horns’
Tommorrow Sabah’s political gadfly Jeffrey Kitingan will reveal his political direction.
(Free Malaysia Today) – Jeffrey Kitingan, the evergreen local hero in Sabah and Sarawak, may be ready at last to bring some much needed clarity into his politics when the United Borneo Front (UBF), his NGO, celebrates its first anniversary tommorrow in Kota Kinabalu.
Other celebrations are scheduled to take place throughout Sabah and Sarawak in the run-up to the 13th general election.
The word is that Jeffrey has an important message to mark the occasion and will, at long last, give a glimpse of where his politics is headed.
It certainly won’t be that United Borneo Front has been registered.
Registrar of Societies (RoS) Sabah Matthew Barin had recently threw a damper into the works by rejecting the registration of UBF.
It appears that “Borneo” is a taboo word with the ROS for its connotations with “nationalism of the wrong kind” as speculation over the ‘UnBorn Federation’ (UBF) would have it.
UBF remains, at writing, an ad hoc apolitical rights movement which works across the political divide to, among others, bring Malaysians in Sabah and Sarawak together as a Third Force in Parliament.
The Third Force will support either the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) or the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (Pakatan) to form the federal government but without joining such a government.
