MACC report lodged against Masing and Mong

(No wonder Masing and Mong regard themselves as towkays. Read the following story)

KUCHING:  After being exposed for writing letters to Heads of Department of Agriculture and Department of Welfare to cancel subsidies and welfare assistance to handicapped Frusis Lebi for supporting the Opposition, which caused an uproar in Sarawak, yet another scandal involved the assistant minister is being exposed by Sarawak Report.

This time it involved an alleged fraud land deal, where he allegedly asked for ‘kickback’ of RM70 million from the sale of 70,000 acres of land belonging to his own constituents.

The land at Kelingkang Range, Bukit Begunan, Sri Aman was to be developed into an oil palm plantation.

In a letter dated  June 18, 1997 allegedly written by Mong, he asked for RM1000 per acre from Megarume Sdn Bhd and after deduction of the up front to LCDA the balance would be divided 50% to him and 50% to one Kho Chee Pheng (broker).

“I also agree that any of the three companies, Noble Reserves Sdn Bhd, Noble Resources Sdn Bhd or Noble Rewards Sdn Bhd to be used for the joint venture with the investors. Together herewith I enclosed my personal and curriculum vitae and also three photocopies of our nominees identity cards, namely Bawang Ak Deru (IC NO.660424-13-5886), Leyta Kupa (IC NO.651120-5532) and Henry Yan Masing (IC NO.KP553094) for you to register into any of the three companies,” Mong was alleged to have written.

According to Sarawak Report, Bawang Ak Deru is Mong’s wife, while Leyta Kupa in the wife of Wilson Ugak and Henry Yan Masing is James Masing’s brother. All the three are directors of Noble Rewards Sdn Bhd.

Based on Sarawak Report, the women wing of Sarawak PKR this afternoon lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) against Land Development Minister and President of Parti Rakyat Sarawak James Masing and Dagang for alleged misuse and abuse of power in a land deal.

Lodging the report on behalf of the wing was Nurhanim Mokshen who handed over some documents, letters and reports.

Nurhanim who is head of the wing called on MACC to investigate the allegation and to investigate the allegation and take necessary actions to clear the names of the minister and the assistant minister or to commence the process of cleaning up our public offices.

She was accompanied by a lawyer Simon Siah.

The MACC told them that the Commission was aware of the case and had been instructed to look into the matter.

Meanwhile, when contacted NCR land lawyer See Chee How confirmed that the area is already subject to court case brought against the partners and LCDA by the native landowners who had rejected first the logging and then the plantation of their land.

See, who is also the Batu Lintang assemblyman said that more than 50% of the landowners had rejected the plantation and many had also rejected the paltry RM1,000 per family that had been offered for the areas valuable timber by these politicians.

Nevertheless the project was pushed through by Masing and Dagang on the basis that the local people would benefit.

“It surely comes as little surprise that the native landowners are yet to receive any dividends from the enterprise after the first six years.

“This qualifies as fraud,” said See because Dagang and Masing had been trying to convince people they would be able to take a 30% share of the joint venture and share the profits in return for their land.

“They tell the people ‘let the LCDA develop your land and you will get 30% of the joint venture and profit. However, the people were not told about this huge kickback. Under the joint venture that money should have been shared among the people, not paid to nominees of the very politicians who were talking them into the scheme,” See said.

Who is the boss - the politician or the voter?

KUCHING: Who are the towkays (bosses) - the Politicians or the People?

This is the question being asked by politicians and rakyat from both the Opposition and Barisan Nasional.

President of Parti Rakyat Sarawak James Masing said that the politicians are the bosses and advised voters to ‘follow a rule of life – jangan lawan towkay’.

“In any organisation, including political parties, we cannot go against our boss. That is the golden rule in life which we must observe,” Masing said in defence of his Vice-President Mong Dagang who is also the Assistant Minister of Agriculture (Research and Marketing).

Dagang had written a letter to the Assistant Director of Agriculture ordering him to cease all subsidies and welfare allowance to Frusis Lebi who is deformed in both hands and legs because he was a strong supporter of the Opposition.

Since last October Lebi did not receive the subsidies and the welfare allowance.

But Sarawak DAP Secretary Chong Chieng Jen said that what Masing said that ‘jangan lawan towkay’ (don’t challenge the boss) is totally unacceptable.

“Ministers are public servants of the rakyat. Every five years the ministers have to submit their resumes for re-appointment or re-election by the people.

“In many occasions especially during the election times we can hear that some of BN leaders say that the rakyat are the boss. But the BN leaders are only paying lip service.

“In their mind they treat themselves as the boss and the people as their servants.

“This is a clear example of the mentality of the BN senior politician and senior minister. No wonder the rural people have been neglected,” said Chong who is the Kota Sentosa Assemblyman.

He added: “This is the typical mentality that results in the neglect by the BN of the rural people’s needs and development.

“Not only Mong has to apologise, Masing should also apologise especially to the voters in his (Baleh) constituency.

“Masing’s remark is also contrarily to 1Malaysia slogan where ‘rakyat first, performance now’.

“To Masing, the ministers come first because the minsters are the boss. That is his interpretation and his mentality.

“Nevertheless, whatever he said we still continue to press this matter in parliament. I think this is a clear breach of the constitution and I will challenge Najib (Prime Minister) what he has to say when his BN party leader has openly said that ministers are 'towkays' and the people are the servants, and the servants must obey the towkays,” said Chong who is the Bandar Kuching Member of Parliament.

Commenting on the same issue, Sarawak PKR Vice-Chairman See Chee How said the arrogance manifested by Masing calls for the severest political censure condemnation.

“With the exposure of the misdeed by his party Vice-President and state Assistant minister Mong Dagang, one would have expected Masing, as a Senior State Minister, to mollify the damages that have been inflicted on image of the BN government.

“Instead, the Senior State Minister amplified the contemptuous act by challenging the most fundamental ideals of a democracy that a government is ‘of the people, by the people and for the people".

“His callous remark that the people should not go against the government because the government is boss (“towkay”) reflects terribly on the BN leadership of the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister.

“It is obvious that the reign since independence has made him egoistic and arrogant,” said See, who is the Batu Lintang assemblyman.

“Masing should be taught that the relationship between the government and the people is like the ship and the water.

“The water can keep you afloat, it can also sink you,” he pointed out.

Letter to YB Mong Dagang & YB Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah

YB Mong Dagang,
YB Datuk Seri Douglas Unggah,


Subject: St.Paul`s School, Banting
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I wish to draw your attention as reported in the local newspapers recently that on 5th April, 2011 in Kuching,Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin presented RM6.35 million for financial assistance to 127 mission schools throughout Sarawak. It means each mission school in Sarawak has been given in initial allocation of RM50,000.00 under the patronage of a committee comprising ministers in Sarawak.

As you are aware that St. Paul`s school, Banting and teachers` quarters are in a state of dilapidation and in need serious repairs, thus we the villagers in Banting urge the school share of RM50,000.00 is to be untilized for this purpose and not to be diverted elsewhere.

We will monitor the development and may take necessary action deemed fit if the fund is misappropriated for other use.

Yours faithfully,

Sri Belalang,
Batu Tembang, Banting.

PRS Youth criticized for lack of activities

Former supreme council member of Parti Rakyat Sarawak Joseph Allen has criticized the PRS youth for lack of activities especially when the state election is very near.

“I have not seen them doing anything at all, whereas youth wings of other political parties are very active organizing this and organizing that,” he said, pointing out that if they do not do anything now they will be held responsible for the defeat of PRS candidates.

“Please do not rest on your laurels. You better do something to help the party. Today’s society is very well-informed on what is going on,” he said.

PRS youth is headed by Assistant Minister Mong Dagang and he is very busy in his constituency attacking and criticizing retired civil servants including retired teachers and army personnel who do not support him.

He even called them “left wing” elements for badmouthing the government.

Mong of course does not know why they are unhappy with the government, because Mong has never worked in the public sector.

These retired civil servants are unhappy because they have been deprived of their promotions even though they are qualified to hold even the highest post in the state; their children have been deprived of places in the universities, scholarships, recruitment to the civil service, and worst of all, they know their parents’ native customary rights land and their own land have been taken away by the government and have been leased to crony companies.

If all these happen to you, will you not be angry with the government especially with the Dayak ministers and YBs?

Left-wing retirees worrisome

By Churchill Edward

The Borneo Post carried a story entitled “Left-wing retirees worrisome” dated 17 November 2010:

KUCHING: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) youth Chief Mong Dagang said that there are government retirees who have turned into political left-wingers.

Mong said he was very sure of this as far as his state constituency of Bukit Begunan was concerned. Speaking over the phone yesterday, he said the retirees could be frustrated lot, thus had become easily influenced by negative elements.

He said he was saddened by this because as retirees they were expected to make positive contributions to their respective communities.

Mong said these left-wingers were not easy to quantify even in his constituency.

“We cannot deny that they are among us, but we do not know how many. As far as my constituency is concerned, I know there are some,” he said.

“They should be helping to improve the quality of life in their respective areas after being civil servants from 20 to 30 years. They should be supporting the government of the day instead of inciting people to go against it,” Mong said.

He said his only advice to them was to remember that as retirees they were supposed to be role models and thus should behave accordingly.

“They must return to the way it should be. Help the community by helping the government put positive input into society. They must not poison the minds of the people,” he said.

On the apparent frustration of the retirees with the government, he said: “Of course no government in the world is perfect. Our government is no exception. It has its shortcomings and there are bound to be miscommunication. But it is not dead.”

Having said that, Mong said most of the retirees were gentlemen and some had gone on to become community leaders and respected people.

Mong said the left-wing politics of some of these retirees was a disappointment to the government.

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The Broken Shield: The Reader’s Digest Oxford defines “left-wing” as “the radical or socialist section of a political party.”

In the 1960s, that is, during the height of communist insurgency in the State, many members of Sarawak United People’s Party were labeled as “left-wing elements” and were arrested. Some escaped into the jungle to carry out armed struggle and terrorist activities against the state.

If you are retirees, is it fair to label you as such? – The Broken Shield

Lim says: Dayak leaders look down on their own people

DAP secretary general and Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng has accused some Dayak leaders who opposed his idea of Dayak Endowment Board (DEB) are the ones who degrade the Dayaks because they do not want to help their own community.

“I am baffled as to why Dayak leaders are up in arms over my proposal for a Dayak Endowment Board which seeks to help the poor Dayaks in the State,” he said.

The proposal was not because he looked down on the Dayaks as what some leaders thought, but made out genuine interest to help those who have been struggling against poverty.

“I am just saying that we want to help those who have been marginalized. So I do not see what is wrong with that. Are we going to allow them to continue to be marginalized?” he asked when replying to adverse comments from Dayak leaders.

Lim said that with the setting up of the board, the government would not only be helping in terms of money, but also opportunities and he did not see what wrong with that.

The board would be run the way the Penang government carried out it “Partners against Poverty” programme in the State.

Dayak leaders are against Lim’s suggestion are PBB deputy president Alfred Jabu Anak Numpang, SPDP president William Mawan, PRS president James Masing, Balai Ringin state assemblyman Snowdan Lawan and State assemblyman for Bukit Begunan Mong Dagang.

If they do not agree with Lim’s suggestion, do they have ideas of their own to help their own people? Are we going to see the Dayaks suffering for another 46 years? – The Broken Shield

Source: www.thebrokenshield.blogspot.com

News from Batang Ai (Part 7)

The daily update of news

from Batang Ai by-election
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1. Rumah Beranda remains isolated

Rumah Beranda Aluk, Nanga Bengap which is about 15 km from the main road is little known longhouse as no VVIPs has ever visited it. Except for Jawah Gerang who visited the longhouse three times already and the late Dublin Unting visited the longhouse once only during his years as YB.

Only three days ago Mong Dagang, PRS youth chief, visited the longhouse. He represented the PRS president James Masing and promised a grant of RM5,000 to the longhouse.

Tuai Rumah Beranda and his “anembiaks” were happy to see a BN man visiting them especially during election times, as he wanted to tell them of their problems that have been harassing them.

Among others the problems are:-

(a) most of them are poor and the government should look after their welfare;

(b) they need plots of land for agriculture as most of the land surrounding them have been taken by Salcra;

(c) their road conditions are terrible and for the last 27 years they have been asking for the road to be tar-sealed; and

(d) they request for RM70,000 to repair their old longhouse.

Other Tuai Rumah should emulate Tuai Rumah Beranda and tell BN of their problems as this is the ONLY time that instant “noodle” projects will be promised.

Unfortunately, a junior official of BN was sent to the longhouse, the one who has no power. A minister in the likes of Joseph Entulu should have visited the longhouse.


2. RM2 million for longhouses in Batang Ai

Some RM2 million has been approved for the upgrading of longhouses in Batang Ai, said deputy rural and regional development minister, Joseph Entulu Belaun.

He said each “bilik” (door) of the identified longhouses would soon receive RM300 to RM1,000 for repairing walls and roofs and kitchen extension.

“The allocations are not carrots or for the purpose of fishing for votes because development in rural areas is ongoing,” he said, when he campaigned for Mussen at Rumah Jarop Kalang, Changkol.

Do you believe what he says?


3. Dayaks do not need PKR to resort to Dayakism

Barisan Nasional youth director of operations Mong Dagang for the by-election says that he is aware of PKR trying to fan the spirit of Dayakism to instigate people turning their backs on the BN government.

“With PKR being a peninsula-based party, it is not right for PKR to resort to Dayakism when their own leaders and the party itself practise multiracialism. The Dayaks in Sarawak do not need PKR as their platform because there are already many Dayak-elected representatives in the four BN components.

“In BN, we have a lot of Dayak-elected representatives albeit in the four components. Thus we don’t need PKR to champion the rights of the Dayaks,” he said.

What Mong says is true that we have a lot of Dayak-elected representatives. But what is the use if these Dayak-elected representatives have never raised issues such as NCR land issues that are affecting the livelihood of the Dayaks.

Why? Simply because they are scared of Abdul Taib Mahmud. This everyone knows. Even when PRS submitted a memorandum on NCR land to the PM last year, PRS was told off by Taib. So what has happened to the MoU on NCR land?

Secondly, why Dayaks want to use PKR as a platform?

(a) because it has pledged to save Dayak land from being taken away;

(b) because it was Masing who told PM and CM that he strongly opposed the registration of MDC (Malaysian Dayak Congress) (YB Gabriel Adit knows about this as he was present at the meeting); and

(c) because Masing and PRS are the ones responsible for the deregistration of Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) which had stood as a symbol of Dayakism.


4. First public duty of Malcolm Mussen

The BN candidate for Batang Ai by-election Malcolm Mussen’s first public duty is to open the Lubok Antu branch of Sarawak Bumiputra entrepreneurs association on 3 April.

The branch was hurriedly formed last week to time it with the ongoing campaign. This was stated by association president Abang Zaibidin Abang Zainal. The branch headed by Penghulu Lembang Bagong has about 100 members.

It looks like that the association is playing politics. And nobody makes noise. But if Sarawak Dayak National Union (SDNU) or Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) or even Sarawak Dayak Graduates Association (SDGA) is to organise such a function during election time, the first to cry foul will be Alfred Jabu. He will surely accuse them of playing politics.


5. CM face defaced

As you enter the Lubok Antu road from the main Kuching/Sibu road, there is a big BN billboard featuring the photographs of Sarawak leaders such as Abdul Taib Mahmud, James Masing, Alfred Jabu, George Chan, William Mawan and the BN candidate Malcolm Mussen. The face of Abdul Taib Mahmud was defaced.

According to PKR, this is the work of PRS members themselves so that the blame will be on PKR. Although Abdul Taib Mahmud has been the target of PKR, we will not resort to such tactic, said a PKR leader. He believes that that was the work of the PRS members themselves.


6. Masing wanted UMNO to come to Sarawak

James Masing has been telling the people of Batang Ai to reject PKR as it is a peninsula-based party. Sarawak should mean for local-based parties and no “outsider” party should be allowed.

According to Gabriel Adit, State assemblyman for Ngemah, it was James Masing who wanted UMNO to come to Sarawak.

Adit recalled that the entire PBDS executive committee members met the top leadership of UMNO including Muhamad Muhamad Taib, Najib Razak and Dr. Mahathir Mohamad soon after the Ming Court crisis.

Masing, Adit said, asked Joseph Entulu, leader of Youth wing of PBDS to tell UMNO leaders to bring the party (UMNO) to Sarawak in order to get rid of Abdul Taib Mahmud whose policies are detrimental to the interests of the Ibans.

In each of these meetings, Entulu repeated the request.

Dr. Mahathir told them that the UMNO should not extend its wing to Sarawak because it might create problems, citing Sabah as an example. He said that it was a mistake for UMNO to come to Sabah as it created many problems. He did not want Sarawak to have such problems.

Today, Masing and Joseph Entulu, according to Adit, not only jealously defended Taib’s policies on NCR land-grabbing, policies that undermine Ibans’ interests and unity, but also went to the extent of “nilat burit Taib” (licking Taib’s ass).

They defended Taib’s family wealth, cronyism, CMS and so on. “These are the qualities of Dayak leaders we have in BN,” Adit said to the applause of the people of Rumah Abeng, Nanga Mepi.

More to come…stay tune to www.thebrokenshield.blogspot.com