The Malayan plot: CM Adenan should know best what to do
I believe, this marriage can be annulled if the next suitor agrees that only Sarawakians know what is best for Sarawak and gives Sarawak what Najib cannot give.
Jimmy Adit, The Ant Daily
Hardly three days after Prime Minister Najib Razak met the leaders of all 12 BN component parties for their assurance of loyalty, his deputy Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was crying for vengeance over a supposed plot to topple the government.
“Over my dead body” he said, as he swore to go after the plotters, including a BN man whom he had identified.
Even as he spoke, he claimed the BN man repented and was getting ready to meet the PM later that day, to tell all, it seems.
That apparently never materialised, according to news reports.
But the plot thickens.
Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad has met with Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
Sacked deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin has decided he has a responsibility to Umno, not to the PM.
The Opposition say they are ready to see Najib out of Putrajaya with a vote of no confidence but the next government must be a unity government.
That’s what we Sarawakians are told. That’s what we learn from TV, newspapers, news portals and the social media.
Sarawak is so far away. The South China Sea is so wide, we can’t claim to know more than what we glean from the media.
In fact, Malayans aren’t sure what’s really happening either.
They, too, are trying hard to make out what is true and what isn’t – whether Mahathir and Razaleigh and Muhyiddin are teaming up; whether the Umno supreme council is breaking down the middle; or whether the plot is to topple Najib or the government.
The plot is just too thick.
If Malayans are confused, Sarawakians, a thousand miles across the sea, can’t be any wiser.
So what do we do? If you were the chief minister of Sarawak, what would you do?
Even as Zahid vowed to go after the plotters, Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem was chairing a Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) supreme council meeting.
And he did touch on the subject: “I have no comments to make at this time, until the picture is clearer. (But) I think it is impossible (for Sarawak MPs to be involved in such conspiracy)…not from Sarawak.”
Yes, if I were the chief minister, I would say the same too.
I would only act if things were crystal clear and when I have no doubt that what I see is the real thing.
Many Sarawakians are anxious about seeing real change.
You can’t blame them, especially since after 52 years of independence, the state is still Malaysia’s most backward.
Young Sarawakians, in particular, can’t stand the dilly-dally and flip-flop attitudes of the nation’s leaders in carrying out development programmes and policies.
Malaysia is facing a youth uprising. Young educated Malaysians demand greater transparency, accountability, equitability, justice and whatnots.
Young Sarawakians want nothing less. In fact they want more because they think they are owed this after the 50 over years of independence.
Today, Sarawakians are digging into the history book for their inherent rights. And they have found these in the Malaysia Agreement 1963.
Adenan did right.
Whatever was happening in Malaya, he was at a one-day sitting of the Sarawak Legislative Assembly and telling members of the august house that Sarawak wants full control of education.
He said the federal government too often flip-flopped on education policies and that every time a new person became education minister, policies changed to the detriment of the system.
Sarawak’s 18-point agreement means autonomy, decentralisation and devolution of power.
“Why do we need the federal Public Works Department to manage federal works when we have our own Public Works Department which existed long before the federation?” Adenan had asked.
It really does not matter if Najib is under siege, or if those seeking to oust him out of Putrajaya have failed in their attempt to unseat him.
Sarawak just needs to focus on the task at hand, which is to revisit the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and to get it fulfilled.
