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Post time 18-6-2007 11:50 PM | Show all posts |Read mode
PRESS RELEASE in conjunction with PRESS CONFERENCE on 18 June 2007
of CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATION OF SABAH & LABUAN FT
Tel 088 4XX513; 088 4XX576; 0198117369 18th June 2007.


CASH had the first historic press conference on 18 June 2006 prior to lodgment of Police Report on 21 June 2006, and CASH would like to make it a memorable anniversary to have a PRESS CONFERENCE at the same venue - Beverly Hotel also at very short notice inevitable.
Venue: Beverly Hotel's lobby, Karamunsing, Kota Kinabalu. Time: 3 p.m.

Agenda for very pressing affairs
1) Tsunami of Illegals & Illegalities (TII) in Sabah and the nation.
We need to resolve this TII very urgently for obvious sensitive factors namely (1) the reverse takeover as speculated at the launch of the signature campaign on Project IC for Royal Commission of Inquiry on 15th March, 2006 (World's Consumers Rights Day). (2) with two similar but likely conflicting groups in Sabah, we do not want it here like what is happening in the Palestine of late.
CASH has done the signature campaign in 2006 and submitting the Petition to the King for the Royal Commission of Inquiry early 2007 but RCI is yet to come.
CASH would propose that Patriotic Citizens Forum on Identity Cards (PaCiFIC) be revived with greater participation from more NGOs and other groups to make the final push for greater attention for the RCI. It is really bad for Sabah as people code 71 can be holding important key posts. If this scenario is allowed to escalate, those citizens with code 12 are to be irrelevant. If we look back, how many of our Chief Ministers are not born in Sabah. It is timely now that we verify the status of all important positions holders with birth certificates. In the context of illegals and illegalities or TII, I have lodged two Police Reports on 15th June, 2007 on two specific cases on Dr. Patawari (a code '71' politician) and Soh See Yee @Gary Soo/Su aka SSY who had exploited the illegals in gangsterism for more than 15 years with heightened activities in the recent years .


2) Police and ACA reports and their follow up.
We do not know how many Police and ACA reports on major/important issues have not been dealt with in recent years with conclusion. There may have some investigations but little is known of the results.
For me, I have now lodged 13 (inclusive of 2 on 15th June 2007) Police Reports since 2004 - some in CASH and some in personal capacity, and except for the one on Project IC or Project Mahathir lodged on 21 June, 2006, the rest had been all silent. I never heard anything about the reports also extended to the ACA. Are we to be informed of the outcome of those reports lodged to Police and ACA? Are we now to comment about the capability of these costly bodies? Since I did not hear from Police and the ACA, I had recently submitted complaints to the Suhakam and Public Complaint Bureau (Biro Pengaduan Awam) of the Prime Minister Department for further attention in May 2007. So may I ask - are we in anarchy in Malaysia when the General Elections 2004 is also the subject of Police and ACA report lodged by me on 26th December, 2006?


3) Price Hike in Sabah.
CASH had submitted a MEMORANDUM in support of corrective measures to tide over price hikes in Sabah to the Prime Minister and others early 2007.
We do not know what the Governments - State and Federal -have done over the escalating price hike in 2007. What we hear is 'boycott' the expensive outlets but if all outlets are having similar price levels, where would the consumers end up?
While we may have not lost our thinking capacity, we must work hard to resolve the price hike in concerted effort so that some sectors of the consumers may not be too disadvantaged and over burdened by the worsening price hike across the board. We have seen how the prices had been increased at the announcement of civil servant pay rise before the implementation in July 2007. It is likely another round of price hikes of essential goods after July 2007 when the private sectors cannot afford to give themselves equivalent pay rises like in the public sectors. We should be cautioned that with levels of the price hike, such pay rise would be neutralised.
We must re-examine the approaches of maintaining our livelihood in a small domestic economy of Sabah and the cost and standard of living to be sustained. Productivity is an essence of the value of the pay rise. Without productivity for any sector, how can such pay rise be justified and sustained?
One of the Government long standing policy is on the price control of essential items but what we see is that such items have to break the price control mechanism (hence redundant) due to the costs push mainly caused by the fuel upwards adjustment in recent years of quick succession.
Meanwhile CASH's view is that Petronas need to provide the financial intervention for the Sabah sector to bring some relief of the drastic fuel adjustment of subsidy withdrawal. We must work on that option to tide over the burden to be more bearable over price hike. Should we have a Prices Commission to monitor price hike?
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Datuk Patrick Sindu. Joshua Y. C. Kong
President Deputy President
Prepared by Joshua Y. C. Kong for CASH 18 June 2007.
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 Author| Post time 28-6-2007 11:47 PM | Show all posts

Saham Amanah Sabah & Imm13

PRESS RELEASE OF JOSHUA KONG - Deputy President of CASH 28th June 2007
SAS
        Datuk Yong Teck Lee called for a WHITE paper after lodging a Police Report over a hidden agenda. Datuk  Musa Aman rejected a White paper (any good reasons?) and instead revealed a dubious solution via an Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) of two options of RM350m to be injected into SAS and another using a business venture of oil palm.  Datuk Karim Bujang supported a White paper.  
        The crux of the issue is long overdue and only kick up the revived interest again due to the looming General Election as in previous GE in 1999 and 2004.  Like the Sabah Water Resources Council almost very silent, IAC too is dormant when the members of such Council or Committee are not revealed.  While the Bursa Malaysia's composite index has increased substantially over the last few years, nothing has changed for SAS.  Even other Unit Trusts have improved over the last ten years, SAS is lost in rotten investments.   It seems that BN like "Budak Nakal" within the family is in strife over SAS just as it is the same own doings (entrapment) in its handling of illegals and IMM13 holders.

Illegals & IMM13
        Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman is inconsistent in his handling of the illegals and IMM13 as much of his activities are already exposed in the popular blog - Malaysia Today.  He is quoted that Federal Government has not consulted with the State Government over the PR proposal for IMM13 holders in Sabah.  In reality, when has the Federal Government consulted the State Government?  Was it the intention of the Federal Government allowing the socalled refugees to be in Sabah when it was the questionable deal of the UNHCR to have misplaced them in Sabah for a short term which has unfortunately become more than three decades without any standard solution as expected.  I believe no third countries could accept such many people of questionable characters.  So why should Sabah bear the burden then?
        The overall scenario of illegals and IMM13 of 1-2 millions in Sabah needs to be dealt with the Royal Commission of Inquiry without fail where the just decisions for all can be delivered.
        How would such an important decision of giving PR to IMM13 illegal of unknown numbers be based on a referendum as proposed by UPKO when the election process itself is questionable?
        Who are the people qualified to participate in this questionable referendum when 1-2 millions of fake citizens are in faulty system?  Are the minority local people now (from a majority in 1963) be destined to live under an oppressive system of illegals and illegalities as we have observed a Tsunami of Illegal and Illegalities in a rotten system since 1963?



Joshua Kong,
Deputy President of CASH.
Secretary General of PaCIFIC.
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