PROVOCATIVE....STAR leaders with partial of a crowds land a provocative banners.
By : LUKE RINTOD (FMT)
KENINGAU: As Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak went about wooing support for his embattled supervision in this interior district of Sabah, he was kept blissfully unknowingly that a natives here have been restless.
The stage-managed uncover of support for a federal supervision that is bitterly resented here for failing to lift a peculiarity of life in a single of a richest states, was in sheer contrariety to a heartfelt uncover of criticism as well as call for leisure just down a road in a tamu (local bazaar) ground.
A small 25 kilometres divided from a Keningau locale where Najib was busy in attendance special functions organised for him by a state government, a organisation of about 500 locals waved half a dozen banners job for 'independence' for Sabah.
The organisation led by State Reform Party (Star) Sabah authority Jeffrey Kitingan was celebrating a Kaamatan or harvest legal holiday during a Apin-Apin Tamu Ground but they took a opportunity nevertheless to have their own political statement.
Denied make use of of a stage during a shaded tamu belligerent by a District Council they built a temporary stage to put upon their Kaamatan show.
An organising committee member told FMT that Umno as well as PBS politicians had pressured a District Office to deny them make use ! of of a stage.
Early this (Sunday) sunrise a organisers as well as Kaamatan revellers put up banners along a Apin-Apin road that Najib, his mother Rosmah Mansor as well as environment will pass upon a way from Keningau to Tambunan for a launch of a village college called KDM College.
The crowd in Apin-Apin though dwarfed by a scarcely 20,000 who incited out Saturday night for a inhabitant level Kaamatan jubilee during Keningau Stadium, was brash as well as intense.
Bias internal media
Jeffrey, whose elder brother Joseph Pairin Kitingan, a PBS boss as well as a emissary arch apportion was busily escorting Najib upon his two-day revisit to Sabah, described a mood in Apin-Apin as excellent.
"We cannot any longer endure a colonisation by Malaya where you continue to be treated as a small cluster when you have been so large as well as abounding as well as nonetheless a people have been a lowest in Malaysia. How can you accept this?
"Just demeanour during Keningau parliamentary seat itself is bigger than a states of Perlis, Penang as well as Malacca total as well as nonetheless you in Keningau usually have a single MP as well as two state assemblymen as well as a single District Officer. This is unfair," he said.
The diction upon a a banners read: "Sabah adalah negara bukan negeri ke-12 Malaysia", "Kami mahu Perkara twenty dilaksanakan", "Hentikan penjajahan Sabah, laksanakan Perjanjian Malaysia" "Tolak Umno penjajah, Sabah negara merdeka", "Kami menuntut hak NCR", as well as "RCI untuk siapa?, Hapuskan Projek IC Mahathir".
The internal press though aware of a criticism in Apin-Apin refused to admit it as well as focused upon Najib's visit.
Those who attended a Apin-Apin Kaamatan jubilee quest! ioned a resourceful reporting in a face drawn out disquiet in Sabah over its political destiny underneath a Umno-led Barisan Nasional coalition.
CROWD....Dr Jeffrey addressing a crowd in Apin-Apin.
A resident who wished to be well known usually as Rayner told FMT they were disappointed with a pro-government slant to all news in a internal mainstream media.
"Maybe it is their policy, maybe they have been upon a take, who knows with a little editors being since datukships as well as JP as well as so on. They have turn more vulnerable to exploitation, as well as positively a little have compromised their so-called independence," he said.
Meanwhile, Star flags were seen whipping in many places here as well as in a little areas side by side with a Barisan Nasional as well as PBS celebration flags not long ago put up to happen at the same time with a Prime Minister's visit. - Sabahkini
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