Many believe which a leading contenders to attain ageing Chief MInister Taib Mahmud have been his Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) celebration information chief, Adenan Satem, comparison vice-president Awang Tengah Ali Hassan as well as a emissary president Abang Johari Tun Openg. But others, however, think which a trio have been usually for show.
According to these soothsayers, when a time comes in dual or three years for Taib to step down, it will be Len Talif Salleh who will step in to his shoes.
They pronounced nonetheless it was viewable which Taib is bathing ! Adenan, 68, by giving him critical portfolios in a brand new state cabinet, it was right away increasingly likely which Len Talif, who is from within Taib's family circle, might right away stick upon a list of contenders.
Len Talif late in March to contest in a Apr 16 state election.
Following his success, Len Talif was allocated as partner tourism minister, partner apportion in a arch minister's office, as well as partner apparatus formulation as well as sourroundings minister.
He is not usually a Melanau, though additionally a close relative of Taib.
As a polite servant, Len Talif was obvious as well as most feared in a polite service as he was not usually allocated to multiform pass posts, though additionally hold most of Taib's secrets.
But politically not most even in Sarawak know who Len Talif was until as well as when he delivered his lass debate at a new sitting of a State Legislative Assembly.
Elected up! on a Bar isan Nasional-PBB sheet in Belawai, Len Talif's aggressive impression in delivering his debate hold a courtesy of his associate BN state representatives as well as a antithesis personality Wong Ho Leng as well as his rope of 14 alternative opposition-elected representatives.
Newcomer to politics
From a onset, Len Taliff, a visitor to politics, had hold a eye of a antithesis since of his style.
He clashed with a antithesis members during a lass speech.
"You shut up. This is my floor," he pronounced to an antithesis member who wished to seek clarification when he (Len Talif) indicted DAP of being racists.
Despite constant reminders by a Speaker, Asfia Awang Nassar, to Len Taliff to discontinue his debate as a time since to him had been used up, a latter a single after another his tirade opposite a opposition.
The Speaker could do nothing.
Had he been a single of a antithesis speakers, his microphone would have been switched off. That is a kind of impression Len Talif is.
Saving Adenan
In another instance, Len Talif showed his intensity when Adenan, Minster with Special Functions, could not answer a subject from a antithesis per joist acceptance from a European Union (EU) which sought to anathema joist from Sarawak if it did not imitate with conditions imposed in a certification.
Len Talif stood up as well as told a public which a EU was not a physique which released a joist certification.
His present answer saved Adenan. This prompted Adenan to contend which he would recommend to Taib to have him allocated as partner minister.
Of course, Len Talif knows about a certification. After all, he was a former director of forests.
Besides land a post of director of forests, Len Talif had been in assign of multiform critical supervision departments as well as agencies.
Among a positions he hold concurrently were arch executive officer of Sarawak Forests Corporation, (SFC), a general physical educat! ion inst ructor of Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (STIDC), a emissary permanent secretary to a formulation as well as apparatus management ministry as well as authority of Tanjung Manis Integrated Port.
He w! as additionally since four alternative special tasks.
All these departments, corporations as well as ministry have been intensely critical since these agencies have been a ones which have been concerned in multi-billion ringgit worth of projects, resources such as land as well as timberland products together with timber.
Right connections
Described as a male with "super tellurian ability" by his peers, Len Talif assimilated a Forestry Department shortly after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in forestry in 1979.
His right connectors saw him rise rapidly in a department, infrequently overtaking some of a comparison officers.
Usually polite servants would not plea a minister.
But this is not a box with Len Talif. He has challenged as well as rebuked Ministers.
In a single instant, he ticked off State Land Development Minister James Masing for his remarks upon a logjam along a Rajang River last year.
Masing had blamed excessive logging as well as joist operations in Ulu Baleh for a logjam.
Timber, logs, joist tools as well as alternative debris which had accumulated over a years were pushed in to a rivers by complicated rains causing large logjam from a a Rajang River tributaries.
Tonnes of fish as well as marine life perished, whilst thousands of residents along a rivers were cut off from river communications.
But Len Talif chided a apportion for his remarks. He blamed a change of continue as a law-breaker for causing a logjam.
He pronounced it had zero to do wit! h loggin g as well as joist operations in those areas.
Of course, everybody knew which a excessive joist operations were a cause, though Len Talif dared to lie as well as plea a minister, since he has a support of a arch minis! ter.
Masing from there upon has hold his tongue.
Taib's support
Another impression of Len Talif worth observant is which only prior to he late as director of forests, he was alleged to have authorized multiform joist licences in H2O catchment as well as native prevalent right (NCR) land areas.
Many of these licences have been questionable, as legal suits have been being filed by NCR landowners to plea a issuance of licences in those areas.
The subject of arising joist licences prior to a state choosing was lifted by a Sarawak PKR representative See Chee How in a new state public sitting.
But a Speaker disallowed any contention upon a issue.
But a questions which have been nagging a minds of a people are: why did Taib move him to politics? Why did Taib have him an partner apportion land critical portfolios alternative than to sight him to take over a leadership?
Could he be a male who will attain Taib?
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