By : AWANG AHMAD SAH THE FEDERAL Government, vocalization on behalf of all Malaysians, has been harping on a ill diagnosis by Israel opposite a people of Palestine for so long. Yes, a Israelists have cordoned off regions in Palestine, such Gaza, creation if difficult to bring in food supplies. During a premiership of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, food as well as medicine had to be smuggled through Egypt.
But Malaysia is notorious for being hypocritical, creation statements during a international turn as well as not realizing that what it is complaining about abroad is function in Malaysia itself. The former PM, Tun Mahathir was wellknown for bashing a Jews, criticizing secular as well as eremite oppressions in alternative countries, though in his own nation a same things were happening.
What you have been seeing currently is a case of a Federal Government criticizing Israel for putting Palestine under siege, though parallels of what Israel is indicted of you do have been receiving place in Sabah. We might haven't satisfied it though these things have been function right under a noses. The Cabotage Policy is a single great example.
With this process a Federal Government is having Sabah under a little sort of siege or oppression by preventing food supplies from removing to Sabah without delay from their provision countries. Ships have been compulsory to go to Port Klang first, even if such ships have to pass by Sabah waters to get to Klang.
It is as if there! is a wa ll around Sabah that usually Port Klang can open for us to get a alien goods, as well as this approach a products become a lot some-more expensive. And who gets a benefits? Umno-connected contract shippers who have been creation millions from a sufferings of Sabahans.
Because of a Cabotage Policy alone most bad people have been made to humour even worse since of nonessential inflation in Sabah as well as Sarawak.
This process of mercantile taste by a Federal Government, has caused Sabah's commodity prices to be a lot aloft than in a Peninsula, has also caused us to lose a mercantile benefits of some-more foreign approach investments (FDIs) that should have come to Sabah.
Because alien products have to go to Port Klang first, investors have been scared of starting production businesses in Sabah due to a nonessential aloft costs. The internal manufacturers have prolonged been complaining about this problem.
This has resulted in wanting pursuit opportunities, causing tens of thousands of a immature people to go as well as find work in a Peninsula as well as Singapore. At a same time you have lost a good of trickle-down goods of differently aloft employment as well as aloft spending of employees in Sabah.
The difference in commodity prices is bizarre since in a higher-income society of a Peninsula, a prices of duck is RM6 compared to RM10 in Sabah. It should be a alternative approach round; duck beef should be some-more expensive in a Peninsula since of a aloft direct there (due to a aloft population), as well as it should be a lot cheaper in Sabah where a direct is reduction (due to a most reduction population). But what's function is that you in Sabah have to pay a lot some-more for duck beef due to a aloft price of rearing duck all due to a inflated pric! es of al ien duck feed due to a Cabotage Policy.
And a worse thing is people in a Peninsula, while spending less, have been earning some-more than their counterparts in a Borneo states. Hotel boys in KL can consequence up to RM1,600 or some-more (including tips) per month while their counterparts in KK would take reduction than RM1,000! We obviously have an mercantile system that is topsy-turvy, astray and, to be honest, repressive!
And to make a total incident even worse, you have been being robbed off a healthy resources that by now should have made extremely rich a oil as well as gas, a lands (taken by Felda as well as Felcra), as well as a taxes that have been in a billions per year.
Personally, even great tears of red blood wouldn't be sufficient satisfaction for what Sabahans have been losing as well as pang from, as well as we can't wait for a day when all these will be reversed, when probity will during last save Sabah from a dour future.
(NOTE : Awang Ahmad Sah, Deputy President, STAR Sabah) - Sabahkini
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