Husam: Why a panel if PM says Kelantan has no oil?



Kelantan senior manager councillor Husam Musa currently questioned a sovereign government's frankness in setting up a cupboard to investigate oil kingship for easterly seashore states, since Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has already pronounced Kelantan has no oil resources.

Speaking during a press conference in Petaling Jaya, Husam remarkable which a sovereign supervision had in 2009 deserted outright Kelantan's ask for oil royalty.

azlan"Since May 2009, it 100 percent deserted a life of inorganic substance in Kelantan as well as pronounced a state does not merit royalty.

"But (three) years later, a PM has bowed down to a competence of a Kelantanese people...We additionally thank a sultan for signing a plaque for oil royalty, to illustrate forcing Umno to relent," Husam said.

Najib hadannouncedin November 2009 which a sovereign supervision would pay wang ehsan to Kelantan, instead of oil royalty.

"Currently there is no inorganic substance production in a waters off Kelantan as well as Terengganu. So from a legal aspect, a Kelantan state supervision is not entitled to claim royalty, as well as neither is Terengganu," a PM told a Dewan Rakyat then.

Najib had afterwards argued which this was because a Emergency Ordinance 1969 defined a state's waters as located not more than 3 nautical miles from a low watermark or offshore.
According to Husam, this argument no longer stands as a Emergency Ordinance was repealed progressing this year.

'Federal supervision has no rig! ht to in tervene'

In any case, he said, a sovereign supervision has no area standi to meddle in matters of oil kingship - including to set up acommitteeto investigate it - as a agreement is in between Petronas as well as a state governments.

"The sovereign supervision has no right to interfere... a PM's pierce to meddle is fishy," he pronounced after presenting a Kelantan government's in front of to a Pakatan Rakyat legislature today.

NONEHusam (left) pronounced which with a Emergency Ordinance out of a way, a supervision can without delay impute to a Petroluem Act 1974, which obviously states how oil kingship is to be paid.
"The categorical reference is a Petroleum Act 1974, which states which oil producing states should be paid twice a year true in to a state's accounts, for a state to make use of as it deems fit," he said.

He pronounced which a a minute sent to Kelantan Menteri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat states which a cupboard will convene for 6 months as well as a result will be deliberated by a cupboard inside of 80 days henceforth.

"I am confident which a general election will be called inside of a 6 months. If Pakatan Rakyat takes over Putrajaya, God willing, oil kingship can be given to Kelantan inside of two weeks, without a need for a committee," he said.
He added which upon top of oil royalty, a Kelantan supervision is additionally looking which oil as well as gas found in Kelantan waters be downstreamed to a state.

Husam pronounced this includes a 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas pot found in a Bumi Selatan oil fields, where work began in May 2008.

"The Kelantan MB has sent a minute to a PM months ago to indicate which a g! as pot b e downstreamed in Kelantan but there has been no response.

"Pakatan's commitment is to concede Petronas to downstream these gas pot in Kelantan to coax a economy, create jobs as well as prosperity for a state," he said.

He pronounced which a same can be pronounced for a Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area with Thailand, where gas pot from Kelantan H2O have been downstreamed in a beside country.

"This is prolonged domestic discrimination," he said.

He added which whilst he privately has no objections to former finance apportion as well as BN's Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to paint Kelantan in a committee, he additionally has "other people in mind".

"But this is my personal view. The state has not motionless upon who will be our deputy upon a committee," he said.
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