The state
government claims that they have created 2,000 millionaires through the Native
Customary Rights JV concept, but others claim they are only paper millionaires.
KUCHING:
The Sarawak government claims that they have created 2,000 millionaires through
the new Native Customary Rights concept but detractors say they are “paper
millionaires”
Sarawak
PKR chairman Baru Bian says that they are only paper millionaires.
He was
refuting claims by assistant minister in the Chief Minister’s Office
(Bumiputera Entrepreneur Development) Mohd Naroden Majais’ statement that 2,000
participant in the NCR exercise were now millionaires.
Naroden
had said that through the NCR land development and new concept through JV,
about 2,000 landowners who have 50 acres and above now are holding assets worth
a million ringgit.
“Therefore,
we can say that the scheme has created not less than 2,000 rural Bumiputera
millionaires,” the assistant minister had said.
Bian who
is also the Ba’Kelalan assemblyman said: “His statement is misleading. In terms
of acreage you may say they are ‘paper millionaires’.
“The
truth is that they are ‘bankrupt millionaires’, because they have not been paid
their dues by the investors and government agency’s agent like Pelita or LCDA
(Land Custody Development Authority).
“Two
cases had been nullified by the court including the brain child NCR land
project of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud in Machan, Kanowit.
“After
nine years the investors said that there are no profits so there are no
dividends, so what millionaires is he is talking about?
Commenting
on the same issue, Patrick Sibat Sujang, a former NCR land development
committee member of Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) accused the assistant minister
of misleading the people.
“While on
paper, the value of the land could be worth millions of ringgit, but it is
useless and meaningless to the landowners as under the JV concept, the
landowners had surrendered their land to the JV companies.
“As the
landowners have no rights to their land, they are now at the mercy of the
investors. They cannot sell their land or get back their land.
“To me
the landowners are condemned to poverty for the next 60 years,” said Sujang,
pointing out that some landowners received no dividend at all.
“Even if
some of them are paid dividends, it is far below the poverty line, and some
scheme participants in Lubok Antu received less than RM10 worth of dividend per
year,” he said.
“Tell me
how the landowners can become millionaires under this concept?
Sujang
believed that the only way the landowners can become rich is for the new
concept to be replaced by a rental system.
- - Taken from Free
Malaysia Today
4 comments:
Noroden had in fact wanted to say that there are 2000 JV companies owners have become millionaires by robbing the NCR.. The dividen were not paid,even if paid the sum is too nominal,the land were taken away by the JV cos.-so how would a landowner could become a millionaire? Of course Noroden himself is a millionaire by walloping the native land at simunjan.Like Jabu,this Noroden is also nonsensical when it comes to native land development and the illusive millions purportedly gained from it by the landowners.
Yes,correct Noroden,infact there are a lot more millionaires among the native landowners in Sarawak than mentioned by you.A lot of us here has rm.400,at least once a while, and if we go across the border at Tebedu we will become millionaires instantly.I think that is what you mean .
Indirectly naroodeeen was hinting at SALRA.SALCRA with its large areas of Oil Palm should be making BILLIONS of Ringgit each year.
So Tan Sri Jabu is his target.
Sure Sarawak has the most millionaires and the richest multi billionaire in the whole of Malaysia! The question is, why is Sarawak still the poorest state and the least developed of all the other states?....figure that out. What lies between Noroden's ears leave a lot to be desired.
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