Penan landowners in Batu Niah have been both repelled as well as indignant during State Land Minister James Masing's insensitivity.
MIRI: Hundreds of affronted Penan native prevalent rights (NCR) landowners, who have been indicted of hidden oil palm fresh fruit bunches (ffb) from 4 major government-linked oil palm plantations, have lodged a military inform objecting to a allegation.
The Penan village in Kampung Ugos, Jambatan Suai, in Baru Niah have taken corruption to accusations levelled against them by State Land Development Minister James Masing.
Penan chief Ugos Sugon, who lodged a military inform upon behalf of his people during a Batu Niah military hire upon August 12, pronounced Masing had no right to call them thieves.
We have been not thieves we have been not happy during being indicted of hidden from a own land. We have been watchful for a dividends for a very long time.
In February 2009, after watchful thirteen years we perceived a money cheque of RM500,000 to be widely separated among us.
The 500 of us in Kampung Ugos have been to share a RM500,000 after thirteen years. It is not right, he said.
Ugos as well as his people had, in 1999, concluded to mutually rise their NCR land with a Land Custody Development Authority (LCDA) as well as a band of in isolation investors.
However, a deal, according to a villagers, was rather unfair to them.
Many claimed that they had not even seen a agreement.
Cheating LCDA
The villagers hold a joint-venture (JV) plan involving their NCR lands has done millions for LCDA as well as a in isolation investors in perspective of a very great oil palm price for most years.
They feel a LCDA as well as a partners were shortchanging them.
The villagers were pa! id RM500 division every year. Many have expressed their melancholy during a quantum.
Vi! llager J adam Ekem pronounced they concluded to allow LCDA to rise their NCR land underneath a JV agreement given they hoped that their village would swell similar to other communities in a state.
He claimed that although a group had paid them RM500,000, a payout was not documented scrupulously as well as a purpose of a remuneration not noted.
They claimed allegations of hidden surfaced when they voiced out their unhappiness.
Since final year a camp management has reportedly indicted a Penans of hidden fruit bunches as well as offered them off upon their own.
According to Masing, a situation had turn worse given a recent state election upon Apr 16.
Stealing natives
Masing had reportedly said, final week, that bootleg harvesting of oil palm fruits had price LCD as well as a JV partners a little RM33.6 million in losses.
Worst strike was a 1,855ha camp belonging to SPB Penan Jambatan Suai Sdn Bhd in Suai, Miri, that has reported RM21.2 million in waste as well as a IOI Pelita Plantation Sdn Bhd camp in Tinjar, Baram. The latter lost RM9.8 million.
Responding to a losses, Masing lashed out during a Penan community, saying: Stealing is stealing, no make a difference how we (landowners) try to justify it. You dont take from your friend.
During a press discussion organised by Sarawak Natives Customary Rights Land Network (Tahabas), Ugos pronounced a villagers were peaceful to encounter with Masing over a issue as well as that he contingency apologize for calling them thieves.
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