By: JOSEPH WILFRED LAKAI
SABAH is a misfortune managed as well as misfortune state to live in Malaysia with a second lowest H2O supply coverage, a tip race growth, a largest number of bootleg immigrants, a tip misery incidence, a poorest electricity/ appetite potency as well as a slightest grown state in Malaysia.
This conclusion does come from a close investigate as well as research of a Ninth Malaysian Plan as follows:
Sabah has a second lowest H2O supply coverage of 75% throughout a state usually forward of a 70% H2O supply coverage in Kelantan;
Sabah has also a tip race expansion rate in a nation during 3.1% as compared to a national normal of 2.3%. Its race jumped by 530,000 or more than 20% in a space of 5 years from 2.6 million in 2000 to 3.13 million in 2005.
Sabah has a largest number of bootleg immigrants as well as those with genuine ICs underneath "Project M" estimated during scarcely 1 million. The extraordinary expansion of a Sabah race can be shown which in 1960, a Kadazandusun race was 168,000 as well as equaled a number of alternative Bumiputeras. In 2000, while a Kadazandusun Murut race increasing to 560,000, a race of alternative Bumiputeras had grown to 1.1 million;
Sabah has a misfortune appetite potency with shocking complement waste of 19.5%, units sole per worker (Gwh) of usually 1.29 as well as System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI) of 4,109 mins per customer per year. In alternative words, 4,109 mins is mislaid from energy interruptions in Sabah each year or roughly 3 da! ys out o f 365 days. No wonder Sabah is known as a 'Land With Power Cuts'. This compares unfavorably with TNB's complement waste of 10.5%, 3.05 Gwh units sole as well as 147 SAIDI or usually 147 mins mislaid per year in Peninsular Malaysia.
Sabah has a misfortune occurrence of misery during 23% in 2004 as compared to Sarawak's 7.5% as well as Kelantan's 10.6%. The occurrence of misery in Peninsular Malaysia is 3.6% as well as for a complete nation 5.7%.
Sabah ranked final upon a Development Composite Index (DCI) scoring 90 as compared to a tip of 109.6 of Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Even Kelantan is forward of Sabah with a DCI of 93.1.
Clearly, being a final grown state in Malaysia is a prerogative to Sabahans for giving comprehensive energy to BN but any meaningful antithesis in a state. Absolute energy corrupts absolutely. The time has come for Sabahans to arise up by restoring democracy by choosing by casting votes in a antithesis to yield a strong as well as in effect Sabah supervision to quarrel for domestic equality, socio-economic probity as well as quarrel for a clean as well as great governance.
What have we got to lose when Sabahans are already a bottom state in Malaysia. With such abounding healthy resources, it is unacceptable for Sabahans to live in poverty, where there are frequent interruption in energy supply, bad roads upkeep as well as construction, frequent H2O supply breakdowns, a foreigner in your own land confronting bootleg immigrants as well as also a deepening order in in between a abounding as well as poor.
Sabah has a meant monthly income of RM 2,487 in 2004. How most households have a meant monthly income of RM 2,487 when Sabah has a tip misery occurrence of 23%. Malaysia has a misfortune income inconsistency in South-East Middle East in in between a abounding as well as bad with a share of income of a bottom 40% of a race enjoying usually 13.5% while a sh! ar! e of a tip 20% increasing 51.2%. The income inconsistency is obviously most worse in Sabah where a abounding has turn richer while a bad sojourn poor.
Malaysia has most wealth. The usually problem is which it is not shared equitably with alternative Malaysians. As an oil writer as well as exporter, Malaysians have not received a singular cent of oil revenues even yet Petronas warranted RM 500 billion since it was established 31 years ago in 1974. If this RM 500 billion was shared with every needy Malaysian who is not wealthy, each Malaysian young as well as aged can get during slightest RM 20,000 each.
But Malaysians have not received a singular cent of oil revenues due to endless corruption by a BN supervision as comprehensive energy corrupts absolutely. Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad not long ago suggested which Petronas was expected to earn RM 83 billion final year. After deducting tax as well as royalties of RM 40 billion, fuel subsidies of RM thirteen billion, Petronas will still have RM 40 billion left. If this was distributed to needy Malaysians, each young as well as aged would get RM 2,000 each per year.
A household of 5 would receive RM 10,000 per year as well as would not fright motor fuel as well as electricity price hikes as well as assist them in reducing a financial burdens. But because have we not received a singular cent when this is the legacy as oil revenues from the oil resources belongs not to a singular company or to any individual but to all Malaysians in a oil producing states.
If a non-oil writer like Singapore can give S$ 2.6 billion (RM 6 billion) money underneath a 2006 Budget this year to all Singaporeans, especially a poor, because can't a Malaysian supervision do so when Petronas has warranted scarcely RM 500 billion since a inception in 1971? Oil importer Singapore has since $ 10.675 billion (RM twenty-four billion) but delay to a people since 2000 as compar! ed to Pe tronas which has not since a singular cent.
The healthy subject which Najib must answer is how come Malaysians cannot get a singular cent but delay from a RM 500 billion oil revenues while Singaporeans but a singular cent of earning from oil income can good from RM twenty-four billion these final 5 years? Clearly, it is critical which Malaysians find burden as well as mercantile probity not usually from a Sabah BN supervision but also from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to forestall all the oil income from being dissipated by a select few.
(NOTE : Joseph Wilfred Lakai, Vice Chairman of Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) N34 Liawan Constituency Liaison Committee.)
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