By : UBF MEDIA
DATUK Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, a head of a United Borneo Front (UBF) called on a State Government to strengthen lands in Sabah as well as Native Customary Rights (NCR) as well as to not usually stop further disunion of lands to non-Sabahan locals though additionally to stop taking over local lands for whatever excuses.
Dr. Jeffrey had supported a reasons put forward by a Sedomon family through Nilakrisna James, UBF co-founder as well as granddaughter of OKK Sedomon Bin OKK Gunsanad, who had uttered a Sedomon familys objection to a due takeover of a Sedomon genealogical home in Bingkor to be converted in to a Warisan Budaya by a Jabatan Muzium Sabah.
The claim by her uncle that a house turn a Malaysia Independence House. He pronounced this during a UBF Borneo Tea Party function hosted by Alex Amik held on 19 August 2011 during Kg. Sungoi, Apin-Apin, Bingkor.
Sedomon is a icon of local rights as well as for a Sabah locals he will always, for all time, represent a struggle of a interior locals during a time of a formation of Malaysia where he advocated for local rights as well as liberty so that Sabahs position in this nation will keep locals forward of national development as well as not be wiped out in to reservations if we ever joined Malaya.
To dispossess a Sedomon descendants of their estate as well as omit a provisions in place in their land pretension so as to describe their in isolation skill in to a open skill is an abuse of a law as well as an aspersion to local land rights.
Their views have been paramount as well as a Rumah Besar Sedomon shall keep ! a statel y pretension as well as be allowed to age gracef! ully as a family home so that it will regularly offer as a reminder to this nation of what Sedomon stood for.
If we have been even unable to strengthen an icons domain as well as apply oneself a estate of natives, then it goes without observant that we have been unable to strengthen any local domain in Sabah, Dr. Jeffrey pronounced in his statement.
He additionally settled that while there have been merits to acquiring in isolation properties for open seductiveness a Government contingency additionally apply oneself a inalienable rights of a Natives to in isolation properties as well as a conditions as well as conditions of titles contingency be respected. Such enterprise to turn in isolation domain to open domain contingency not be forced on a owners.
Native land rights as well as NCR remain a cornerstone of what is in a Article 8 of a Malaysia Agreement 1963 as well as a Inter-Governmental Committee Report 1962. The State Government should hold up local rights enshrined in Sedomons Batu Sumpah as well as a law as well as they should not make use of a law to usurp, revoke or change a nature of those rights or ownership.
Private local land owners have a right to secure their tenure as well as in this apply oneself a Land Ordinance should simulate that right. In a benefaction form, even a Land Ordinance Sabah Chap.68 has provisions in Section seventeen to concede local lands to go in to unfamiliar or non-native hands.
Native land tenure should not have these loopholes. If local owners were to benefit from such transactions it would be opposite though in many cases locals have been being taken for a ride as well as they benefit small by relinquishing their local lands in to unfamiliar hands, Dr. Jeffrey stated.
Two alternative locals during a tea celebration complained that their duplicate done multiform years ago for local lands were never ap! proved a s well as that their small lots would be marked down further when sub-divided between many descendants digest destiny local generations potentially landless as well as apropos squatters in their own land.
The St ate Government seems to prioritise tourism developments as well as alternative infrastructure developments when companies as well as non-natives have been alienated lands that should be indifferent for local uses. Instead of local lands benefitting locals in these developments, a companies have been benefiting, that will lead to a eventual erosion of all local lands from local inheritance.
If a State Government as well as State leaders have been unqualified of addressing this problem, we have no preference though to lodge an official complaint to a King who stays a overall guardian of locals in this nation when Malaysia was formed in 1963, Dr. Jeffrey said.
To an additional locals question about opening some of a adjoining timberland pot next to existent local lands, Dr. Jeffrey opined that a State Government should be means to examination a standing of a timberland reserve as well as weigh a needs of a local locals as well as confirm on a land function together with de-gazetting part of a timberland pot for local uses usually instead of a sinful make use of of non-natives or companies for far-reaching scale developments as well as plantations.
He said, Land matters have nothing to do with a Federal Government as well as State leaders contingency think as Sabahans as well as not a stooges of their Federal political parties when making these decisions. The State Government should not simply de-gazette timberland pot for far-reaching scale developments as a protection of a lands as well as environment stays paramount. In this respect, State leaders who simply do this should be questioned by a open as well as be under obligation for their decisions.
These have been a scenarios that Sedomon was fearf! ul of as well as fearing that laws would be abused as well as altered he consecrated that a Batu Sumpah be sworn on using traditional animal sacrifices as well as spiritual ceremonies so that a conditions enshrined in a stone would be sacred as well as protected spiritually. For a natives, a Batu Sumpah is a very significant as well as mystic monument that deserv! es a h ighest apply oneself by leaders in this country, Dr. Jeffrey added.
UBF additionally calls on a State Government to examination all alienated lands especially to companies that have been being doubtful by locals as well as to revoke such alienations as well as to re-alienate such lands to a rightful locals that have been recognized given a British colonial times.
We have already proposed a CINTA SABAH campaign to move Sabahans towards a usual mindset of safeguarding their interests in this State. If we love Sabah, we would quarrel to a end of a earth to strengthen your rights, Dr. Jeffrey concluded.
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