Penduduk di Kampung Api-Api, DUN Piasau hidup kegelapan

Kampung Api Api mohon perhatian wakil rakyat DUN Piasau



Oleh Hazel Lee

MIRI – Nama sahaja Kampung Api-api, namun sehingga kini penempatan setinggan yang terletak kira-kira 10 kilometer dari pusat bandar itu hidup dalam kegelapan kerana tiada bekalan elektrik.

Kebanyakan penduduk di situ menggunakan pelita minyak tanah selain generator pada waktu malam. Manakala untuk bekalan air paip, mereka terpaksa berkongsi satu meter air.

Selain tidak mempunyai bekalan elektrik, penempatan yang didiami lebih 2,000 penduduk berbilang kaum sejak 30 tahun lalu tidak mempunyai kemudahan asas seperti bekalan air bersih secara meter persendirian.

Bukan itu sahaja, kawasan yang didiami oleh masyarakat berbilang kaum majoriti Dayak dan Orang Ulu itu tidak mempunyai sistem pembuangan sampah yang sistematik, menyebabkan kawasan itu berbau busuk.

Tinjauan mendapati, penduduk lebih gemar membuang apa sahaja sampah termasuk botol, lampin pakai buang, sisa makanan, plastik termasuk najis ke dalam longkang dan sungai kecil yang terdapat di belakang rumah.


Iba Saba

Menurut penduduk di situ, kebanyakkan mereka sudah menetap di situ lebih 20 tahun namun sehingga kini belum ada usaha untuk mewujudkan bekalan air dan elektrik.

Isu berkenaan pernah diadukan kepada pihak berkenaan, namun sehingga kini tiada tindakan diambil.

Salah seorang penduduk kampung, Iba Saba, 32, berkata, mereka juga tidak mempunyai sistem pembuangan sisa kumbahan yang sistematik menyebabkan sungai kecil yang terdapat di situ turut dijadikan tempat membuang najis.

“Keadaan ini menyebabkan tempat kami berbau busuk dan kotor, namun kami sudah biasa,” katanya sambil menambah mereka tidak mampu untuk memiliki rumah sendiri.

Beliau berharap wakil rakyat yang dipilih bagi kawasan dapat membantu termasuk mencari langkah penyelesaian terbaik untuk membolehkan mereka menikmati kehidupan yang lebih selesa.

Kampung Api- Api merupakan salah satu penempatan setinggan yang terbesar di Miri selain penempatan di Kampung Baru Pujut 7, Kampung Pujut Sungai Adong, Kampung Merapak Pujut 8 dan Kampung Damai Jaya, Piasau Utara.

Petrol up 20 cent

Shocking News!!!

RON97 petrol up 20 sen to record high of RM2.90

Thought when people chosen 'change' 'UBAH' everything will be in control but Now..... ehmm.... seems like not helpful too... Question mark for what had said during campaign...

Article:

PETALING JAYA: The price of premium RON97 petrol will be increased by 20 sen to a record high of RM2.90 per litre from Thursday.

"The price of RON97 fluctuates as the Government has lifted the subsidy for this petrol," Malaysian Petrol Dealers Association president Datuk Hashim Othman said Wednesday when confirming the price increase.

The previous increase was a month ago.

"The price of RON97 might go down in future, but this depends on the political situation in the Middle East as well as natural disasters," he added.

Subsidised RON95 petrol and diesel prices remain unchanged.

Next SUPP President : Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian ???

 

STILL CONSIDERING OFFER: Dr Sim needs time to consider the offer of a job at National Heart Centre.

KUCHING: Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian who contested in the Pending constituency under Sarawak United People’s Party banner in the last state election is now counting the cost of his defeat to Violet Yong of Democratic Action Party (DAP).

The former Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) cardiac unit head who quit his job to stand for election said he was now jobless and had to leave the state to lecture overseas.

Dr Sim was expected to wrest the Pending seat from Yong the incumbent as he was a well known heart specialist but he was defeated by a margin of 7,595 votes garnering 6,780 against his opponent’s 14,375 votes.

After the election, many people here expected and hoped Dr Sim would go back to the medical field and continue his service in the cardiac unit.

However, he said he would not be going back to work as a cardiac unit head at SGH because someone had replaced him after he resigned before election.

Therewere some speculations in the Chinese papers yesterday, that Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan would like Sim to replace him as president of SUPP.

Former Deputy Chief Minister Dr Chan lost his Piasau constituency in the election had said it was time to let the young people lead the party and reform it.

When contacted by See Hua yesterday, Dr Sim said: “Never mind. Let them talk about it now. The more we talk now, more confusing it is. Wait until I have time, then we talk about it. Now I am very busy.”

Sim said after the election, he went to give lectures in Australia. Later, he would be flying to Korea.

“Because I am jobless now, I need to work. It is easier to earn abroad,” said Dr Sim.

He also said next week he would be attending a function in Kuala Lumpur.

About his future plan, Dr Sim said he was still not sure because he did not have time to think about it now.

When asked whether Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had offered him a job at National Heart Centre, Sim said Najib did, but he needed time to consider.

CM step down? Can or Cannot ?

Senator Datuk Idris Buang

KUCHING: Opposition parties – PKR, DAP and PAS – were yesterday told to urge the chief ministers and Menteris Besar in the Pakatan Rakyat-held states of Selangor, Penang, Kedah and Kelantan to resign instead of calling for Sarawak Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud to step down.

In his speech when debating the motion of thanks to the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong’s address in the Senate in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Senator Datuk Idris Buang said these heads of state cabinets held on the posts through a slim majority of their parties while the state BN headed by Taib was holding 78 per cent of all state seats in Sarawak.

He also compared the degree of mandate Taib received after the April 16 state election to that of the result of the last state elections involving the four Pakatan Rakyat chief ministers.

Idris reiterated that the state BN under the leadership of Taib maintained its two-thirds majority in the legislative assembly.

“DAP, PKR and PAS should have been telling their Pakatan CMs to step down in Selangor, Kedah, Kelatan and Penang simply because they are there on slim majority while our (Sarawak’s) CM is on a strong mandate of 78 per cent of all state seats which is more than two-third majority,” he said.

“It’s a thumping, resounding and honourable victory for our CM,” he said when referring to the April 16 state polls.

Idris said Taib would never allow BN to use hate and malicious campaign tactics like what the Pakatan components had done in the just concluded state election.

“He (Taib) talks about building the country and talks about people who should prosper earnestly and also about moving forward. Compare this to the politics of deception by Pakatan leaders who launched unfair character attacks and hatred like the one launched by Communist terrorists in their psy-war during Sarawak emergency,” said Idris.

While it was true that Pakatan succeeded in urban areas in Sarawak, BN government under Taib did not practise corruption as alleged by the opposition.

The state government had for many consecutive years been top rated with multiple ‘As’ for good governance and financial management by world independent professional bodies, he pointed out.

“Does that not mean anything? As a lawyer I know what is and what is not corruption. Taib is clean. He does not interfere in his family members’ business.

“They have every right to do business on their own merit and business acumen without his interference in this country or outs,” he said.

“CMS for example, is a Bumiputera company that provided jobs and spin offs to thousands of people in the state. They have every right to do business and invest like anyone else,” he said.

Pakatan Rakyat had cleverly played the issue of corruption up and create a perception but which is untrue, he said.

Taib wants Wong

CM wants Wong in cabinet

by Johnson K Saai. Posted on April 22, 2011, Friday


CENTRE OF ATTENTION: Taib being interviewed by reporters after he chaired the state cabinet meeting.

KUCHING: Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said that no one can stop him from appointing Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh a cabinet minister.

Speaking to the media after chairing the Cabinet meeting here yesterday he asked: “What right do they have to say they agree or not agree to the representation of the Chinese community in the government?”

Taib was responding to SUPP Central Working Committee’s (CWC) objection to Wong’s re-appointment as a state minister and instead requested that the post be given only to its non-Chinese elected representative.

SUPP, which used to be the second biggest state BN component after Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), only won two Chinese-majority seats, namely Bawang Assan through its candidate Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh and Datuk Lee Kim Shin in Senadin but retained all its Bumiputera majority seats of Bengoh, Simanggang, Engkilili and Opar.

In view of the party’s devastating defeats in Chinese majority seats, the party’s CWC decided that Wong should not accept any state cabinet post since the Chinese community had rejected their representation in the government.

“We need their representation in the government. I promised the Chinese that I want to help them get fair representation so I take what I can get and after all Soon Koh (Wong) was voted on BN ticket and not SUPP,” said Taib.

He added that he would try his best to get the Chinese community to be represented no matter how few seats they have got.

He stressed that it was the commitment of the Barisan Nasional to maintain a multiracial government because for a multiracial society to progress, the government must be multiracial no matter what happened.

“BN is not a marriage of convenience. It is not a coalition that assembles after the election to suit the situation thereafter. It is a kind of permanent coalition. They have a common manifesto…work together during the administration…work out what to do for the next election.

“They stand together during and after election. The government has to or at least try to ensure that no single community in the country is being left out because the moment you give it up, it is going to be bad for us,” he said.

He cited that in 1969, when Tun Abdul Rahman was prime minister, he kept MCA in the national cabinet although the party had no seats to ensure that all races were represented in the government.

Earlier Taib said he had yet to pick his deputy to replace SUPP president Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan who lost his seat in the last state election, and that he would only think about it when the time comes.

“I will only think about it when doing the reshuffle. As to when it will be held, I will decide,” he said.

The chief minister also would not say whether the post would still be held by a SUPP state assemblyman as the party only managed to secure six of the 19 seats it contested in.

PM, Najib : ‘1Melayu, 1Bumi’

PM says idea personal opinion of Utusan M’sia assistant editor-in-chief

Posted on April 23, 2011, Saturday



SERDANG: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said yesterday the government had nothing to do with the ‘1Melayu, 1Bumi’ movement proposed in a Utusan Malaysia newspaper report.

“That’s the personal opinion of the writer. As for the government, we have a very clear concept which we will continue to work on.

“And, as for the Malays, it is most important that they support Umno if they want to be politically united,” he told reporters after addressing a gathering of farmers, breeders and fishermen, here.

Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar was also present at the event.

Utusan Malaysia assistant editor-in-chief Datuk Zaini Hassan, in his ‘Cuit’ column two days ago, said the DAP had managed to unite the Chinese politically and, in his opinion, the Malays should launch the ‘1Melayu, 1Bumi’ unity movement.

Asked about the proposal by DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang for the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) to merge with the DAP, Najib said he did not wish to comment on an opposition issue.

However, he said he did not see how SNAP could work with the DAP because their ideologies were different.

Two days ago, Kit Siang proposed that the DAP and SNAP merge in time for the next general election in order to better serve the Iban-Dayak community in Sarawak, saying that such a merger would accelerate the Iban-Dayak political awakening following the recently concluded Sarawak election.

Asked about calls from several quarters for Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud to step down as the Sarawak chief minister, Najib said: “I have made my comment … give me time.”

On the reported dissatisfaction of the people towards the announced 1Malaysia E-mail account for all Malaysian citizens, the prime minister said that as it was a private sector project, the explanation should come from them.

“Let them do the explanation … not everything’s on me because it’s their proposal. It’s a private sector initiative and it doesn’t involve public money. Let them take the initiative to explain (to the public).” — Bernama

Datuk LEE Kim Shin VS Dr. Michael Teo : SENADIN SEAT



DAP says BN main tipu! BN says.. 'refers to below article"



ARTICLE:

KUCHING: The Sarawak Election Commission is standing by the decision taken by its returning officer in not ordering a recount of votes for the Senadin seat in the state polls on Saturday. Sarawak EC director Datuk Takun Sunggah said the decision taken by Chai Ko Het in rejecting a request by Parti Keadilan Rakyat for a recount was the right decision and was in accordance to the procedures and rules.

"Dissatisfied parties can file an election petition with the High Court within 21 days after the election results are gazetted," he said in a statement here today.

The Barisan Nasional's candidate Datuk Lee Kim Shin defeated PKR's Dr Michael Teo Yu Keng by a majority of just 58 votes for the Senadin seat. Lee polled 7,334 votes while Teo 7,276 votes. -- Bernama

QUESTION

Question: If the law provides for recount if the majority is less than 4% under what circumstances can the RO reject the request for re-count. 58 votes over 20,000 (?) is well below the 4% rule.

ANSWER:

In accordance with subregulation 25 D (5A) of the R81.

The recount of votes is the proceeding in which the votes cast for every candidates to be counted again by the presiding officer at the polling station in the event of the difference between the number of votes cast for the leading candidate and the number of votes cast for the next leading candidate is four per cent or less of the total number of votes cast.  The recount can only be done once and upon request from a candidate or his election agent or his counting agent at polling station.

At the P.212 Sibu parliamentary by-election, Wong Ho Leng from DAP won with a majority of 398 votes which was less than four per cent of the total votes cast excluding rejected votes.

BN’s candidate Robert Lau of SUPP requested for a recount was rejected by the RO for P.212 Sibu in accordance with subregulation 25 (13) of R81.