Call to Sabah nominated Assembly members to resign to give way to women deserves serious consideration

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The call by the Sabah Women’s Action Resource Group (SAWO) to Sabah nominated Assembly members to resign to give way to women deserves serious consideration.

SAWO has put up an invincible case for its call, lamenting that “Today marks a dark day for women in Sabah as their status and position in the state has reached rock bottom”, expressing anger and disappointment that there are no women ministers  in the new Sabah cabinet.

As the Sawo statement said:

“Women’s representation in the state assembly has been decreasing over the years and is now less than 10 percent. Sawo, together with other groups, urge the government to improve this pathetic and unjust situation by appointing women into the six nominated Legislative Assembly seats…

“The message of this GRS-led government to Sabahan women is very loud and clear. They think that Sabahan women are not good enough, nor capable enough, to deserve a seat at the table together with male leaders to govern the state.”

It is indeed a shame and a  regressive step that while in other  countries, women are taking their rightful place and playing an increasing prominent role in public affairs, like New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Iceland Premier Katrin Jakodsdottir, Finland Premier Sanna Marin and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen, women cannot become a Minister in Sabah.

But this is not the only flaw of the new Sabah Cabinet.

Just as the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) must be observed if we are to win the war in the Covid 19 pandemic, there is a SOP for building a successful Sabah  – unity and inclusivity, and not the poisonous and negative politics of race and religion engendering fake news and lies to create hate and fear in our society.

In the Sabah general election, the Warisan Plus had a manifesto which provided a SOP for a New Sabah where Sabah:

·       abandons the reputation as the poorest state in the country 57 years after the founding of Malaysia – worse than Kelantan, the poorest state in Peninsular Malaysia;

·       where the state’s rich natural resources will be used to improve the infrastructure facilities of Sabah and abolish the backwardness of the most remote areas – no need for the Veveonah Mosibins of Sabah to spend 24 hours on a treetop to gain better Internet connectivity to sit for an online exam – instead of enriching the coffers of the corrupt and the powerful;

·       where there is unity and harmony among the various ethnic groups, languages, religions and cultures in the country; and

·       where there is no discrimination whether of gender or age.

The Sabah state Cabinet is proof that it is a major setback for Sabah and Malaysia that the  campaign of Warisan Plus leader Shafie Apdal, who used slogans of unity and inclusivity like: “In God Trust, Unite We Must” and “We are here to build a nation not a particular race or religion” failed to win the election.

As a result, as rightly pointed out by the Sabah DAPSY chief and Sabah Assemblymen for  Luyang, Ginger Phoong, there is  gross lack of diversity in the new Sabah Cabinet as  it has no representative of the state’s youth, women and Chinese community.

It is sad  that the average age of the new Sabah cabinet  is over 60 – a regression from Shafie Apdal’s Cabinet and the global trend of increasing youth and women participation in leadership positions. Ginger Phoong was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports in the Shafie Apdal Cabient when he was 29 years old.

What stands out as a sore thumb is the absence of a Heath Minister especially at a time when Sabah is the premier hotpot state in the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Sabah registering more than half of the active Covid-19 cases, i.e. 1,944 out of 3,703 active cases in Malaysia.

Nobody would disagree if it is said  that the new Sabah Cabinet is the worst in the history of Sabah.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 9th October 2020)

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Seruan kepada Ahli yang dilantik Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah untuk meletakkan jawatan bagi memberikan laluan kepada golongan wanita patut dipertimbangkan dengan serius

Seruan daripada Sabah Women’s Action Resource Group (SAWO) kepada ahli lantik Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah untuk meletakkan jawatan bagi memberikan ruang kepada golongan wanita patut dipertimbangkan secara serius.

SAWO mempunyai kes yang kuat untuk seruan mereka ini, mengeluh mengatakan “Hari ini menandakan satu lagi hari yang gelap untuk wanita di Sabah, memandangkan status dan kedudukan mereka dalam negeri ini telah mencapai tahap terendah”, menzahirkan kemarahan dan kekecewaan mereka kepada hakikat yang tidak ada seorang pun menteri wanita dalam Kabinet baharu Sabah.

Seperti yang dinyatakan dalam kenyataan SAWO:

“Perwakilan golongan wanita dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri telah menurun sejak bertahun-tahun dan kini berada di paras bawah 10 peratus. SAWO, bersama dengan kumpulan-kumpulan lain, menggesa kerajaan untuk memperbetulkan keadaan yang menyedihkan dan tidak adil ini dengan melantik wanita ke dalam keenam-enam jawatan ahli lantikan Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah…

“Mesej yang disampaikan oleh kerajaan pimpinan GRS ini jelas. Mereka fikir yang wanita Sabah tidak cukup bagus ataupun mampu untuk mendapatkan tempat duduk mereka di meja perbincangan bersama-sama dengan pemimpin lelaki untuk mentadbir negeri ini.”

Memang memalukan dan menjadi langkah terkebelakang, sedangkan di negara lain, wanita mengambil tempat mereka dan memainkan peranan yang lebih penting dalam hal ehwal pentadbiran, seperti Perdana Menteri New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, Perdana Menteri Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, Perdana Menteri Iceland, Katrin Jakodsdottir, Perdana Menteri Finland, Sanna Marin, dan Presiden Taiwan, Tsai Ing-Wen, di Sabah pula, wanita dinafikan jawatan menteri.

Tetapi ini bukanlah satu-satunya kekurangan Kabinet Sabah.

Sepertimana SOP harus dipatuhi untuk memenangi peperangan melawan Covid-19, terdapat juga SOP untuk membina sebuah negeri Sabah yang berjaya — berasaskan perpaduan dan keterangkuman semua, dan bukannya politik beracun dan negatif perkauman dan keagamaan yang menggunakan penyebaran berita palsu dan fitnah untuk mencipta ketakutan dan kebencian dalam masyarakat.

Dalam Pilihan Raya Negeri Sabah, Warisan Plus mempunyai manifesto yang menggariskan SOP Sabah Baharu ini, di mana Sabah:

–	meninggalkan reputasinya sebagai negeri termiskin dalam negara selepas 57 Malaysia ditubuhkan — dengan kedudukan yang lebih buruk berbanding dengan Kelantan, negeri termiskin di Semenanjung Malaysia;

–	di mana hasil kaya negeri Sabah digunakan untuk menambah baik kemudahan infrastruktur di Sabah untuk menghapuskan kemunduran di kawasan-kawasan yang paling terpencil sekalipun — supaya tidak perlu lagi terjadinya insiden Veveonah Mosibin yang terpaksa menghabiskan 24 jam di atas pokok untuk mendapatkan sambungan internet yang baik bagi membolehkan beliau menduduki peperiksaan di atas talian — dan bukannya digunakan untuk mengayakan poket mereka yang korup dan berkuasa;

–	di mana terdapatnya perpaduan dan harmoni di antara pelbagai kumpulan etnik kaum, bahasa, agama, dan budaya dalam negara; dan

–	di mana tidak ada sebarang diskriminasi, baik di antara jantina mahupun umur.

Kabinet negeri Sabah ini menjadi bukti yang ia adalah satu batu halangan kepada Sabah dan Malaysia, di mana kempen pemimpin Warisan Plus, Shafie Apdal, yang menggunakan slogan perpaduan dan inklusif seperti: “Pada Tuhan Kita Yakin, Berpadu Kita Mesti” dan “Marilah kita bersama membina satu negara, tanpa mengira bangsa dan agama” gagal untuk memenangi pilihan raya.

Hasilnya, seperti yang dikatakan oleh Ketua DAPSY Sabah yang juga merupakan ADUN Luyang, Ginger Phoong, terdapat kelompongan kepelbagaian dalam Kabinet baharu Sabah memandangkan Kabinet ini tidak mempunyai sebarang perwakilan daripada golongan muda, wanita, dan komuniti Cina.

Amat menyedihkan apabila umur purata Kabinet Sabah ini adalah 60 tahun — satu langkah kebelakang berbanding dengan Kabinet Shafie Apdal dan juga trend global yang melihat peningkatan penglibatan golongan belia dan wanita dalam kedudukan kepimpinan. Ginger Phoong telah dilantik sebagai Menteri Beliau dan Sukan dalam Kabinet Shafie semasa beliau berumur 29 tahun.

Apa yang lebih menonjol adalah ketiadaan seorang Menteri Kesihatan, terutamanya ketika negeri Sabah sedang menjadi pusat utama penularan wabak Covid-19 dalam negara, dengan Sabah mencatatkan lebih daripada separuh daripada kesemua kes aktif Covid-19, 1,944 kes daripada 3,703 kes aktif di Malaysia.

Tidak ada sesiapa pun yang akan tidak bersetuju jika Kabinet Sabah ini dikatakan sebagai Kabinet paling teruk dalam sejarah Sabah.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Jumaat, 9 Oktober 2020)

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Malaysia would be in a better position in the Covid-19 pandemic if my proposals for a Parliamentary Select Committee on Covid-19 and a Covid-19 Pandemic Study Centre had been adopted

Malaysians sighed with relief at the report that there has been a fourth day of downward decline in the number  of Covid-19 cases yesterday – 354 cases following 375, 489 and 691 cases in the previous three days –  although they are shocked at the news of six fatalities in Sabah, probably the largest number of deaths in Malaysia because of Covid-19 in a single day!

Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has chalked up another grim record yesterday when the global daily increase reached an all-time high of  348,774 cases.

Instead of the number of daily Covid-19 infections descending, we are seeing the graph rising ever upwards, a grim reminder that we are far from seeing  light at the end of the tunnel.

When the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, there were more than 118,000 Covid-19 cases in 114 countries, and 4,291 people have lost their lives.

Yesterday’s global daily increase was nearly  three times the global total of Covid-19 cases when WHO declared Covid-19 as a pandemic seven months ago – when it killed 4,291 people as compared to the present global  fatality of 1,066,412 people.

In the United Nations three days ago, the World Health Organisation  estimated that roughly one in 10 people may have been infected with the coronavirus, leaving the vast majority of the world’s population vulnerable to the Covid-19 disease it causes.

This is a mind-boggling figure as it would mean that 780 million people are infected with Covid-19 as the world population is 7.8 billion – which is a far cry from the recorded Covid-19 estimate.

Countries all over the world are worried about a second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, except the United States which has not emerged from its first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic although it leads the world with  over 7.8 million cases and over 217,000 fatalities.

Today’s Wall Street Journal carried the shocking report that months  before travel bans and lockdowns, Americans were transmitting the virus across the country.

The Wall Street Journal interviewed disease detectives and reviewed hundreds of pages of new research to piece together how the coronavirus infiltrated the wealthiest nation on earth. The latest genetic, epidemiological and computational research suggests it was spreading inside the country before anyone started looking.

In Malaysia, the country’s leadership had been negligent and irresponsible in allowing a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, just as it had been negligent and irresponsible to allow the start of the second wave at the end of February after the Sheraton Move to bring in a backdoor government.

But what is even more reprehensible is its failure to provide leadership and provide inspirational examples to the people, regardless of race, religion, region, politics, gender or age, to adopt an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” approach to fight and win the war against the Covid-19 virus.

I had suggested an Opposition-headed Parliamentary Select Committee on Covid-19 to monitor the public health, economic and nation building crisis of Covid-19 and the establishment of a Covid-19 Pandemic Study Centre to learn from the successes and mistakes of other nations and to keep abreast  with new thinking about the Covid-19 pandemic – for example, that Covid-19 lockdowns were an overly blunt and economically costly tool.

If both my suggestions had been take up, Malaysia would be in a better position today in the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 9th October 2020)

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Sad and shocking that Sabah Chief Minister tested positive for Covid-19 – let his 26-year promise to resolve the problem of illegal immigrants and  eradicate corruption in Sabah and to reduce poverty and illiteracy in Sabah  to zero be the agenda of his Cabinet

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I am sad and shocked that the Sabah Chief Minister, Hajiji Mohd Noor, has been tested positive for Covid-19 to become the first head of state government in Malaysia to be infected with the disease.

His public relations secretary Effendi Mohamed Sunoh said Hajiji, 65,  is now receiving treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, and his health is good and stable.

Effendi said although Hajiji  is receiving treatment, he is still conducting his duties and responsibilities at the place of treatment through phone calls and video conferencing and the state government functions as usual.

Instead of decreasing threat after nine months, the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be reaching new heights menacing the very functioning of government  itself.

In Malaysia, a Minister has been tested positive for Covid-19, the Cabinet is not functioning, and the Prime Minister and more than half the Cabinet are undergoing home quarantine for 14 days.

In the United States, which is leading the world with the most number of Covid-19 cases, with a cumulative total of  nearly 7.9 million Covid-19 cases  with over 218,000 fatalities, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the White House into a Covid-19 hotspot, infecting US President Donald Trump and his aides.

Sabah is currently battling the worst wave of Covid 19 since it was first detected in the country.

Several districts in the east and west coast are now under a conditional movement control order to try to curb the spread of the virus.

The Health Ministry recorded 274 new Covid-19 cases in Sabah (out of 354 cases in Malaysia)  yesterday. Six people in the state, all Malaysians, also died from the virus.

Late last night, the Education Ministry announced the closure of all schools for two weeks, from October 10 to October 25.l

Teachers are to conduct lessons from home in virtual classrooms, the ministry said.

This has again brought to the very forefront the problem of the digital divide in Sabah and the kakistocratic government where neither the Prime Minister nor any  Minister dare to exercise discipline over two Deputy Ministers for falsely  attacking Veveonah Mosibin – the 24 hour “tree-top girl” whose  Youtube of her feat to gain internet connectivity to sit for an online examination has been viewed  more than 840,000 times – and her family from Pitas, Sabah.

As Hajiji is carrying out his Chief Minister’s duties by phone calls and video conferencing, let him instruct his Ministers that the agenda of the Hajiji Cabinet is to fulfil his 26-year promise when he stood as an UMNO candidate in 1994  to resolve the problem of illegal immigrants and  eradicate corruption in Sabah and to reduce poverty and illiteracy in Sabah  to zero – and to instruct the Hajiji Cabinet to issue a report as to how these four objectives are to be fulfilled.

At a time when Sabah is in the eye of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia, it is inexplicable as to why the post of a Sabah Minister for Health had been abolished.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 10th October 2020)

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Sedih dan mengejutkan mendengari yang Ketua Menteri Sabah telah didapati positif Covid-19 — semoga janji 26 tahun beliau untuk menyelesaikan masalah pendatang tanpa izin dan menghapuskan rasuah di Sabah dan mengurangkan kadar kemiskinan dan buta huruf menjadi agenda utama Kabinet beliau

Saya berasa sedih dan terkejut selepas mendengari yang Ketua Menteri Sabah, Hajiji Mohd Noor telah disahkan positif dengan Covid-19, menjadi ketua kerajaan negeri pertama dalam negara yang dijangkiti wabak ini.

Pegawai perhubungan awam beliau, Effendi Mohamed Sunoh mengata Hajiji, 65, kini sedang menerima rawatan di Hospital Queen Elizabeth di Kota Kinabalu dan berada dalam keadaan yang baik dan stabil.

Effendi mengatakan walaupun Hajiji sedang menerima rawatan, beliau masih menjalankan tugas dan tanggungjawab beliau di tempat rawatan melalui panggilan telefon dan persidangan video dan kerajaan negeri masih berfungsi seperti biasa.

Selepas sembilan bulan, wabak Covid-19 ini kelihatan telah mencapai satu puncak baharu, sehingga mengancam fungsi-fungsi kerajaan.

Di Malaysia, seorang menteri telah disahkan positif, Kabinet dilumpuhkah, dengan Perdana Menteri dan hampir setengah ahli jemaah Kabinet menjalani kuarantin dari rumah selama 14 hari.

Di Amerika Syarikat, yang mendahului dengan jumlah kes Covid-19 yang tertinggi di dunia, dengan sejumlah 7.9 juta kes Covid-19 dan lebih daripada 218,000 kematian, wabak ini telah menjadi White House sebagai pusat penularan utama, menjangkiti Presiden AS, Donald Trump, dan para pegawai kanan beliau.

Sabah kini sedang berhadapan gelombang terburuk Covid-19 dalam sejarah negara.

Beberapa daerah di pantai timur dan barat kini berada di bawah perintah kawalan pergerakan bersyarat untuk mencuba mengawal penularan wabak ini.

Kementerian Kesihatan mencatatkan 274 kes baharu di Sabah (daripada sejumlah 354 kes baharu di seluruh negara) semalam. Enam orang daripada negeri tersebut, kesemuanya rakyat, telah terkorban semalam.

Lewat malam semalam, Kementerian Pendidikan telah mengumumkan penutupan semua sekolah di Sabah untuk tempoh dua minggu, bermula daripada 10 Oktober sehingga 25 Oktober.

Para guru diminta menjalankan program pengarajan dan pembelajaran melalui bilik darjah maya, kata kementerian tersebut.

Perkara ini sekali lagi menonjolkan masalah jurang digital di Sabah dan kerajaan kakistokratik di mana Perdana Menteri mahupun mana-mana menteri Kabinet berani untuk mendisiplinkan dua orang timbalan menteri yang telah membuat pertuduhan salah terhadap Veveonah Mosibin — gadis yang merakamkan pengalaman beliau berada di atas pokok selama 24 jam di Youtube yang telah ditonton lebih daripada 840,000 kali — dan keluarganya daripada Pitas, Sabah.

Memandangkan Hajiji sedang menjalankan tugas beliau sebagai Ketua Menteri melalui panggilan telefon dan persidangan video, harap beliau akan memberitahu para menteri beliau yang agenda utama Kabinet Hajiji ini adalah untuk memenuhi janji selama 26 tahun beliau semasa beliau pertama kali bertanding sebagai calon UMNO pada tahun 1994 untuk menyelesaikan masalah pendatang tanpa izin, menghapuskan rasuah di Sabah, dan mengurangkan kadar kemiskinan dan kadar buta huruf di Sabah kepada sifar — dan untuk mengarahkan Kabinet beliau untuk membentangkan satu laporan bagaimana keempat-empat objektif ini boleh dicapai.

Dalam masa di mana Sabah kini menjadi tumpuan utama Covid-19 di Malaysia, agak pelik apabila jawatan Menteri Kesihatan Sabah dihapuskan.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Sabtu 10 Oktober 2020)

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Call on Muhyiddin to summon an emergency zoom meeting of Cabinet to channel all resources to combat the third wave of  Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah

Who cannot be moved after reading the anonymous  Open Letter to the Prime Minister by one of the Health Ministry specialists and published by Malaysiakini.

As the specialist wrote:

“The many months of hard work since the first movement control order (MCO) has been taken for granted and thrown away! We have hit a record-breaking daily case number of 691 on Oct 6.

“There are currently 3,439 positive cases in Malaysia, out of which 1,901 (55 percent) – more than half are from Sabah.

“From Sept 1 to Oct 10, Sabah has had 3,423 cases – this is a shocking 22 percent of the 15,096 cases Malaysia has had from the beginning! There have been 21 deaths which is 13.5 percent of the total of 152 deaths so far.”

I endorse the specialist’s call to the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to “wake up” and to stop ignoring the advice from the Health Ministry and to ensure that Ministers and many top officials follow the SOP or  to haul up the VIPs who do not comply with the SOP including removing them from office.

Will  Muhyiddin start with the Plantation Industries  and Commodities Minister, Khairruddin Aman Razali?

Muhyiddin should summon an emergency zoom meeting of the Cabinet to channel all resource to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah.

The specialist complained that there is “a lack of empathy and real action from the top administration of the country, resulting in ignorance towards the true situation on the ground”, warning that “many centres in Sabah will run out of PPE soon” and that Covid-19 allowances for healthcare workers at the frontlines should be given out during this period and not months after.

Will the Prime Minister act?

While all Sabahans and Malaysians wish the Sabah Chief Minister,  Hajiji  Mohd Noor the best and swift recovery as he is stricken with Covid-19 and is in hospital, it is clear at this hour of Covid-19 crisis in Sabah, he cannot lead from hospital.

Who is now  running the Sabah state government must be immediately announced – whether he is Deputy Chief Minister Bung Mohtar, Jeffrey or Joachim.

Even more important, a Sabah Health Minister must be immediately  appointed to lead  the Sabah state mobilisation campaign  against the Covid-19 pandemic. This is not the time for the Sabah state government to be headless.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 11th October 2020)

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KDM makes history in Sabah in  having two Deputy Chief Ministers, but is this good only for Jeffrey and Joachim or also good for the million-strong  KDM communities, only  time will tell

The Kadazan-Dusun-Murut (KDM) communities made history in the 2020 Sabah state general election as for the first time in the history of Sabah, they have two Deputy Chief Ministers – STAR president, Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan and  PBS Vice-President  Joachim Gunsalam.

But whether this is good only for Jeffrey and Joachim or also good for the million-strong  KDM communities, only time will tell.

But it has not been a good start for  the KDM communities.

This is why the DAP Assembly woman for Kepayan Jannie Lasimbang had cried foul over the dismissal of Sabah community leaders and said that the termination of the services of native chiefs will cripple the Native Court system.

The dismissal  was based on a  letter,  signed by state secretary Safar Untong on Oct 2 and based on a state Cabinet decision the day before.

As a result, all community leaders, including community development chiefs, heads of village community management councils, district chiefs, native chiefs and village heads, have been relieved of their duties.

Jannie said: “This action to terminate all ketua adat (native chiefs) will cripple not only the Native Court system but also all communities in the rural areas.

“It has created unnecessary anxiety and will definitely inconvenience Orang Asal communities, especially those who need to conduct native marriage registrations, engagements, native court cases and arbitration at the village level.”

Lasimbang said it was irresponsible of the newly formed Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) government to interfere in the native court system.

She said any replacement of Orang Asal leaders should respect native law and go through consultation with the native affairs council and the state native affairs department.

This  decision is highly questionable because the full Cabinet had not been sworn in at the time of termination and the portfolio responsible for native affairs had not been decided.

The big test whether two KDM Deputy Chief Ministers will benefit only Jeffrey and Joachim but not the KDM communities will be the Keningau Batu Sumpah issue.

This year’s Malaysia Day is unique for two reasons: firstly, Malaysia burst through the 10,000 Covid-19 cases on Malaysia Day  as if announcing  the advent of  the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic  in Malaysia; and secondly, the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin conspicuously absented himself from the commemorative event at Keningau Batu Sumpah to endorse  the validity and legitimacy of Keningau Batu Sumpah.

Tan Sri Muhyddin Yassin was instead in Sibu for another Malaysia Day event where he announced the formation of a Special Committee on Malaysia Agreement 1963 to discuss outstanding issues pertaining to MA63.

But for the first time in the history of Malaysia on the formation of important committees, the full membership composition was not announced and more than a month later today, the full committee has not been released.  This only confirms that the announcement was more a P.R exercise, and that the Prime Minister himself was not serious about it.

Furthermore, Muhyiddin’s absence from the commemorative event at Keningau Batu Sumpah on Malaysia Day although billboards were erected at prominent places to announce the participation of the Prime Minister at the Keningau Batu Sumpah event raises questions about the seriousness of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) and GRS government to uphold the three Batu Sumpah pledges of “Ugama Bebas Dalam Sabah”, “Tanah Tanah dalam Sabah di kuasai oleh Kerajaan Sabah” and “Adat Istiadat anak rayat Sabah dihormatkan dan dipelihara oleh Kerajaan”.

Will the State Cabinet resolve to move a special motion at the first meeting of the new State Assembly to reaffirm the validity and legitimacy of Keningau Batu Sumpah, and even more important, ensure that there will be a motion in the Parliament budget meeting starting on Nov. 2 to endorse the  validity and legitimacy of Keningau Batu Sumpah, and that it would be on the agenda of the Special Committee on Malaysia Agreement 1963?

As Jeffrey received a memorandum to the Prime Minister on the Keningau Batu Sumpah by the KDM native chiefs at the commemorative event, has  this memorandum on Keningau Batu Sumpah been discussed at the Cabinet before it was stricken and immobilized by the Covid-19 pandemic?

For close to half a century, the Keningau Batu Sumpah was largely forgotten whether by national or Sabah leaders, until I visited Keningau in March 2010 together with two DAP MPs, Teo Nie Ching and Lim Lip Eng and the then lone Sabah State Assemblyman Jimmy Wong.

Until then, I had never heard of the Keningau Batu Sumpah because no one ever raised it not even in Parliament by Sabah BN Members of Parliament.

The Keningau Batu Sumpah inscribed the historic guarantees given to Sabahans in the interior for Sabah’s joining in forming Malaysia in 1963 – about freedom of religion, that land will forever be a state matter and customary rights will forever be respected and safeguarded by the government.

After my March 2010 visit to the Keningau Batu Sumpah, it was clear that the solemn pledges laid out in the trinity of rights to Sabahans from the interior in exchange for the formation of Malaysia had not been honoured and fulfilled.

As a result, I became the first Member of Parliament to raise the Keningau Batu Sumpah issue in Parliament, and since then, DAP MPs from Sabah, particularly Jimmy Wong and the late Stephen Wong had consistently raised the issue in Parliament, to be followed by the present Kota Kinabalu MP  Chan Foong Hin and Sandakan MP Vivien Wong.

Sabah DAP  also launched a Batu Sumpah Awareness campaign, and Czech writer Milan Kundera’s famous quote “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” was most apt to use during the Batu Sumpah Awareness Campaign.

If having two KDM Deputy Chief Ministers is not to be good for Dr. Jeffrey and Joachim alone but also good for the million-strong KDM communities, then the new Sabah State Assembly should pass a special motion to reaffirm the validity and legitimacy of Keningau Batu Sumpah, and even more important, ensure that a parliamentary motion will be adopted  in the Parliament budget meeting starting on Nov. 2 to endorse the  validity and legitimacy of Keningau Batu Sumpah, as well as to place it on the agenda of the Special Committee on Malaysia Agreement 1963.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday, 11th October 2020)

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Call for reconsideration of the decision to impose  CMCO for two weeks  on Selangor, KL and Putrajaya from Wednesday

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The Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari  disagreed with the decision to impose a conditional movement control order (CMCO) on the entire state as many districts are still under control with regard to the Covid-19 pandemic.

From the latest data from the Selangor Covid-19  Task Force dated yesterday, out of 56 Mukim in Selangor, only one (Klang) is a red zone with 53 cases, 18 mukim are yellow zones with cases ranging from two to 32 cases, and 37 mukim are green zones without a single case of Covid-19 infection.

To impose a lock down on the 18 yellow zone mukim and 37 green zone mukim – which represent an overwhelming majority in Selangor – is definitely an  over-reaction.

Amirudin had been completely surprised by the decision to impose the CMCO on the whole of Selangor as he was attending a meeting of the state National Security Council with the Selangor health department, police, armed forces and other agencies on implementation of the CMCO in the Petaling district.

There appears to be a complete breakdown in communications between the Federal and Selangor State Governments in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is a terrible indictment on the decision to impose two-week CMCO on the whole of Selangor when the state Mentri Besar and the state NSC knew nothing about it.

Shari said the state government feels that there are several zones in Selangor which are still green and yellow and are under control and will therefore  send a counter proposal to the NSC immediately for reconsideration.

He said the state NSC  meeting had only focused on the Covid-19 situation in Klang, Gombak, Hulu Langat and parts of Petaling that have a high number of cases.

This is time for the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to step in and restore some sanity in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

)e should be aware of the new thinking in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic that draconian measures like CMCOs and full lockdowns are overly blunt and economically costly tool.

In the early days of the novel and deadly  Covid-19 epidemic, it is understandable that many government deployed draconian measures  like national or partial lockdowns as the priority in a poorly understood Covid-19 pandemic was to save lives.

Malaysia must learn from the costly mistakes of the past and employ targeted lockdowns instead of CMCOs on entire states.

I therefore endorse Amiruddin’s call and urge a reconsideration of the decision to impose  CMCO for two weeks  on Selangor, KL and Putrajaya from Wednesday.

The  decision to impose a two-week  CMCO on the whole of Selangor as well as KL and Putrajayu must not be an  irrational reaction to the criticisms of negligence with regard to the  third wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah.

It will be highly irresponsible to over-react and punish Selangor, KL and Putrajaya for the valid criticisms about the handling of the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah.

Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the decision to reimpose the CMCO was after obtaining recommendations from the Health Ministry following the rise in positive Covid-19 cases reported in several localities such as Klang, Petaling and Gombak.

Can Ismail reveal when did the Health Ministry first recommended re-imposing CMCO on Sabah?

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, October 12, 2020)

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Seruan pertimbangan semula keputusan untuk melaksanakan PKPB selama dua minggu di Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, dan Putrajaya bermula Rabu ini

Menteri Besar Selangor, Amirudin Shari tidak bersetuju dengan keputusan untuk melaksanakan perintah kawalan pergerakan bersyarat (PKPB) kepada keseluruhan negeri Selangor memandangkan penularan wabak Covid-19 dalam kebanyakan daerah dalam negeri tersebut masih berada dalam keadaan terkawal.

Berdasarkan data terkini daripada Selangor Task Force Covid-19 semalam, daripada 56 mukim di Selangor, hanya satu mukim (Klang) yang berada dalam zon merah dengan 53 kes, manakala 18 mukim berada dalam zon kuning dengan di antara dua ke 32 kes, dan 37 zon berada dalam zon hijau tanpa sebarang kes Covid-19.

Pelaksanaan PKPB ke atas 18 zon kuning dan 37 zon hijau — yang merupakan majoriti besar mukim-mukim dalam Selangor — adalah satu tindakan keterlaluan.

Amirudin terkejut dengan keputusan kerajaan untuk melaksanakan PKPB ke atas keseluruhan negeri Selangor ini memandangkan beliau telah menghadiri mesyuarat Majlis Keselamatan Negara negeri Selangor bersama dengan Jabatan Kesihatan Selangor, polis, tentera, dan agensi-agensi lain yang terlibat dengan pelaksanaan PKPB di daerah Petaling.

Jelas sekali terdapat ketiadaan komunikasi di antara kerajaan Persekutuan dan kerajaan negeri Selangor yang dibuktikan dengan keputusan untuk melaksanakan PKPB selama dua minggu tanpa pengetahuan MKN negeri mahupun Menteri Besar.

Shari mengatakan yang masih terdapat beberapa zon di Selangor yang berstatus hijau dan kuning dan dan kerajaan negeri akan menghantarkan cadangan balas kepada MKN untuk pertimbangan segera.

Beliau berkata, mesyuarat MKN negeri hanya berfokuskan kepada situasi Covid-19 di Klang, Gombak, Hulu Langat dan beberapa kawasan di Petaling yang mencatatkan jumlah kes yang tinggi.

Inilah masanya untuk Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin untuk masuk campur dan membawa kewarasan dalam perang melawan Covid-19 ini.

Beliau perlu mengetahui pendekatan baharu dalam melawan Covid-19, di mana tindakan drakonian seperti PKPB dan sekatan penuh pergerakan ini bertindak dengan terlalu meluas, membawa kos ekonomi yang amat tinggi.

Dalam hari-hari awal penularan wabak ini, pelaksanaan langkah-langkah drakonian seperti sekatan pergerakan separa ataupun penuh ini boleh diterima memandangkan keutamaan dalam melawan wabak yang masih belum difahami ketika itu adalah untuk menyelamatkan nyawa.

Malaysia perlu belajar daripada kesilapan kita yang lalu, yang telah datang dengan harga yang tidak ternilai dan mula melaksanakan langkah-langkah sekatan pergerakan yang lebih tersasar dan bukannya melaksanakan PKPB ke atas keseluruhan negeri.

Oleh itu, saya menyokong seruan Amiruddin dan menyeru supaya pertimbangan semula diberikan kepada keputusan untuk melaksanakan PKPB selama dua minggu di Selangor, KL, dan Putrajaya bermula daripada hari Rabu ini.

Keputusan untuk melaksanakan PKPB selama dua minggu di keseluruhan Selangor, KL, dan Putrajaya ini tidak boleh menjadi sebahagian daripada reaksi tidak rasional terhadap kritikan yang diberikan terhadap kecuaian yang menyebabkan gelombang ketiga Covid-19 di Sabah.

Amatlah tidak bertanggungjawab untuk bereaksi dengan melampau dan menghukum rakyat Selangor, KL, dan Putrajaya kerana memberikan kritikan yang munasabah mengenai pengendalian gelombang ketiga Covid-19 di Sabah.

Menteri Kanan, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob mengatakan yang keputusan untuk melaksanakan semula PKPB ini diputuskan selepas mendapatkan nasihat dan cadangan daripada Kementerian Kesihatan selepas menyaksikan peningkatan kes Covid-19 di beberapa kawasan seperti Klang, Petaling, dan Gombak.

Bolehkah Ismail mendedahkan, bila Kementerian Kesihatan mula mencadangkan pelaksanaan semula PKPB di Sabah?

(Komen Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Isnin, 12 Oktober 2020)

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It is time for Muhyiddin to fulfil his Sabah election pledge and channel all resources to fight Sabah as the hotspot state in the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia

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I am disappointed that the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyddin Yassin has not summoned  an emergency zoom meeting of his Cabinet on the grave situation of the third wave of the  Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia although he is in home quarantine until Oct. 16,

Yesterday, a specialist with the Health Ministry wrote  an anonymous letter to Malaysiakini lamenting that “the many months of hard work since the first movement control order (MCO) has been taken for granted and thrown away”.

This has sparked a response from the Health Director-General Dr. Hisham Noor Abdullah, which does not detract in any way from  the central message of the “specialist” to the Prime Minister, i.e. Wake up, enough talk, take action!

The Prime Minister must be red-faced and must act as he  cannot hide behind the coat-tails of the Health Director-General.

He  must lead from the front and deliver election pledges which he made in the Sabah state general election campaign only last month.

During the Sabah general elections, Muhyiddin made three visits to Sabah in 14 days, and  pledged that Sabah will get more help if the state is aligned with the Federal Government and as  Sabah needs a state government that is capable of helping to ease the people’s burden in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Muhyiddin has in fact reneged on his Sabah election pledge when he allowed  Sabah to plunge into the horrendous third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Sept. 1 to October 11, Sabah has 3,921 Covid-19 cases – which is a shocking 25 per cent of the 15,657 cases Malaysia has had from the beginning. There have been 33 deaths which is 21 per cent of the total of 157 deaths so far.

From the poorest state in Malaysia, Sabah has become the worst-affected Covid-19 state.

Is this what Muyhiddin promised the people of Sabah?

The severity of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah is crystal clear when it is noted that when the MCO was first imposed in Malaysia  on March 18, Malaysia had 790 cases and two deaths, after registring 117 new cases in the previous 24 hours.

The Covid-19 situation in Sabah is many times more serious, registering three-digit figures in since Oct. 1 ranging from the lowest of daily increase of 113 cases on Oct. 2 to 488 cases yesterday.

Some 788 Covid-19 cases in Sabah were recorded in the 12-day period of the Sabah state general election from Sept. 12 to Sept 26, which went on to increase  by leaps and bounds to total  2,783 Covid-19 cases in Sabah in the last 15 days since Polling Day.

Although Muhyiddin’s home quarantine expires on Oct. 16, I want to reiterate my call on him to  summon an emergency zoom meeting of his Cabinet to channel all resource to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah.

I endorse the specialist’s call to Muhyiddin to “wake up” and to stop ignoring the advice from the Health Ministry and to ensure that Ministers and many top officials follow the SOP and   to haul up the VIPs who do not comply with the SOP including removing them from office.

Will  Muhyiddin start with the Plantation Industries  and Commodities Minister, Khairruddin Aman Razali?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 12th October 2020)

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Masanya telah tiba untuk Muhyiddin memenuhi janji pilihan raya negeri Sabah beliau dan menggerakkan semua sumber untuk membantu Sabah yang merupakan pusat penularan utama gelombang ketiga wabak Covid-19 di Malaysia

Saya kecewa dengan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang masih belum lagi memanggil satu mesyuarat tergempar Kabinet beliau melalui Zoom untuk berbincang mengenai situasi semasa gelombang ketiga Covid-19 yang sedang melanda negara walaupun beliau sedang menjalani kuarantin di rumah sehingga 16 Oktober.

Semalam, seorang doktor pakar Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia telah menulis sepucuk surat ke Malaysiakini, meratapi “usaha kerja keras selama berbulan sejak perintah kawalan pergerakan pertama telah dipandang enteng dan disia-siakan”.

Surat ini mendapat respons daripada Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, yang tidak lari daripada mesej utama surat kepada Perdana Menteri itu, iaitu; Bangun, cukup dengan kata-kata, masa untuk bertindak!

Perdana Menteri mestinya sedang malu, dan beliau perlu bertindak segera dan tidak boleh terus menyorok di belakang Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan.

Beliau perlu memimpin di hadapan, dan menyampaikan janji-janji pilihan raya yang dibuatnya dalam pilihan raya negeri Sabah yang baru sahaja berlangsung pada bulan lepas.

Semasa tempoh kempen PRN Sabah, Muhyiddin telah melawat Sabah sebanyak tiga kali dalam tempoh 14 hari dan berjanji yang Sabah akan menerima lebih banyak bantuan kerajaan persekutuan jika negeri tersebut memilih untuk berada sejajar dengan kerajaan persekutuan dan Sabah perlukan sebuah kerajaan negeri yang boleh membantu meringankan beban rakyat, terutamanya dalam berhadapan dengan wabak Covid-19.

Muhyiddin telah memungkiri janji ini apabila beliau membiarkan Sabah untuk terjunam kepada gelombang ketiga wabak Covid-19 ini.

Daripada 1 September sehingga 11 Oktober, Sabah telah mencatatkan 3,921 kes Covid-19 — yang merupakan 25 peratus daripada 15,657 kes Covid-19 di seluruh negara. Terdapat juga 33 kematian daripada Sabah, 21 peratus daripada sejumlah 157 kematian di seluruh negara setakat ini.

Daripada negeri termiskin di Malaysia, Sabah kini menjadi negeri yang paling terjejas dengan Covid-19.

Adakah ini yang dijanjikan oleh Muhyiddin kepada rakyat Sabah?

Keseriusan gelombang ketiga wabak ini dapat dilihat dengan jelas apabila dibandingkan dengan sejumlah 790 kes di seluruh negara, dengan 117 kes dicatatkan dalam tempoh 24 jam semasa PKP mula dilaksanakan.

Keadaan di Sabah berkali ganda lebih teruk kini, mencatatkan peningkatan tiga angka sejak 1 Oktober, daripada peningkatan harian terendah 113 kes sehari, sehingga ke 488 kes sehari yang dicatatkan semalam.

788 kes Covid-19 telah dicatatkan di Sabah dalam tempoh 12 hari berkempen PRN Sabah yang berlangsung di antara 12 sehingga 26 September, yang kemudiannya terus berlipat ganda, mengumpulkan sehingga 2,783 kes dalam tempoh 15 hari selepas hari pengundian.

Walaupun perintah kuarantin dari rumah Muhyiddin bakal tamat pada 16 Oktober ini, saya ingin mengulangi seruan saya supaya beliau memanggil satu mesyuarat khas Kabinet beliau melalui Zoom untuk menggerakkan semua sumber untuk membantu Sabah melawan wabak Covid-19.

Saya menyokong seruan doktor pakar KKM yang menyeru Muhyiddin untuk “bangun” dan berhenti mengabaikan nasihat daripada Kementerian Kesihatan dan memastikan semua menteri dan pegawai kanan terus mematuhi SOP Covid-19, serta memastikan mana-mana VIP yang mengingkari SOP ini dibuang daripada jawatan mereka.

Adakah Muhyiddin akan mula dengan membuang Menteri Perusahaan Perladangan dan Komoditi, Khairudin Aman Razali?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Isnin, 12 Oktober 2020)

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Muhyiddin should explain whether the government’s Covid-19 pandemic strategy is mitigation or suppression – to flatten the curve to minimise economic and social disruption or to ensure zero Covid-19 infection and zero fatality

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In the National Security Council (NSC) reconsideration of the decision to impose conditional movement control order  (CMCO) for two weeks  on Selangor, KL and Putrajaya from tomorrow, let the NSC Chairman who is also the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, explain whether the government’s Covid-19 pandemic strategy is “mitigation” to flatten the curve to minimise economic and social disruption or “suppression” to ensure zero Covid-19 infection and zero fatality.

This is important so that Malaysians can understand the rationale behind the various Covid-19 measures, in particular the latest decision to impose a two-week CMCO for  Selangor, KL and Putrajaya.

There have been new thinking regarding  Covid-19 national  lockdowns, total or partial, as overly blunt and economically costly instruments, especially as they are difficult to keep in place for long enough to stamp out the virus.

In the past seven months, there are evidence pointing to alternative strategies that could slow the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic at much less cost.

I myself am at a loss as to whether the government’s strategy is “suppression” or “mitigation”.

The government’s strategy is unlikely to be suppression until zero infection and zero fatality, or it would not have allowed  the Covid-19 situation in Sabah to deteriorate for over a month as to reach a  cumulative total of 4,621 cases and 35 fatalities.

When the movement control order (MCO) was first  imposed throughout Malaysia on March 18,  the country  had a cumulative total of  only 790 Covid-19 cases and two deaths.

No government should remain in place if its Covid-19 pandemic strategy is one of “suppression” and yet allow Sabah’s Covid-19 situation to  deteriorate for over a month until its cumulative total reaches 4,621 cases and 35 fatalities.

If it is  “mitigation”, what is the government’s acceptable level of Covid-19 infection?

Muhyiddin should also explain how his government can claim to be implementing a  ‘whole-of-government,  whole-of-society approach’ in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic when the Selangor Mentri Besar knew nothing about the two-week CMCO for Selangor, KL and Putrajaya beginning tomorrow?

Malaysians are not convinced that the government is striking a proper balance between maximising lives saved and minimising economic and social disruption of Malaysians.

Will there be positive news in the reconsideration of the NSC decision to impose two-week CMCO in Selangor, KL and Putrajaya?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Tuesday, 13th October 2020)

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Muhyiddin perlu menjelaskan strategi pandemik Covid-19 kerajaan, sama ada pengurangan atau penghapusan — untuk mendatarkan lekuk penularan dengan gangguan ekonomi dan sosial yang minima ataupun untuk memastikan sifar jangkitan dan kematian akibat Covid-19

Dalam pertimbangan semula Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN) terhadap keputusan melaksanakan perintah kawalan pergerakan bersyarat (PKPB) selama dua minggu di Selangor, KL, dan Putrajaya bermula daripada esok, saya berharap Pengerusi MKN yang juga merupakan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dapat menjelaskan strategi pandemik Covid-19 kerajaan, sama ada pengurangan atau penghapusan — untuk mendatarkan lekuk penularan dengan gangguan ekonomi dan sosial yang minima ataupun untuk memastikan terdapat sifar jangkitan dan kematian akibat Covid-19.

Perkara ini penting supaya rakyat Malaysia dapat memahami sebab dan objektif di sebalik keputusan pelbagai tindakan yang diambil, terutamanya keputusan untuk melaksanakan PKPB selama dua minggu di keseluruhan Selangor, KL, dan Putrajaya.

Terdapat pendapat yang mengatakan sekatan pergerakan, sama ada secara menyeluruh mahupun separa, adalah terlalu kasar dan datang dengan kos ekonomi yang terlalu besar, memandangkan langkah ini sukar untuk dilaksanakan dalam tempoh yang cukup panjang untuk menghapuskan penularan wabak Covid-19.

Dalam tempoh tujuh bulan yang lepas, terdapat banyak contoh langkah alternatif yang boleh memperlahankan penularan wabak ini tanpa membawa kerosakan ekonomi dan sosial yang besar.

Saya sendiri tertanya-tanya, sama ada strategi kerajaan hari ini adalah “pengurangan” ataupun “penghapusan”.

Tidak mungkin kerajaan cuba menggunapakai strategi “penghapusan” sehingga tinggal sifar kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19 memandangkan kerajaan telah membiarkan situasi Covid-19 di Sabah untuk terus menjadi teruk selama hampir sebulan sehingga mencatatkan 4,621 kes dengan 35 kematian.

Semasa perintah kawalan pergerakan (PKP) mula dilaksanakan di seluruh negara pada 18 Mac, negara kita mencatatkan sejumlah terkumpul 790 kes dan hanya dua kematian.

Tidak ada kerajaan yang akan kekal, jika strategi berhadapan Covid-19 mereka adalah “penghapusan” dan pada masa yang sama, mereka membiarkan keadaan Covid-19 di Sabah untuk terus menjadi teruk, sehingga mencatatkan 4,621 kes dan 35 kematian.

Jika strategi kerajaan adalah “pengurangan”, apakah tahap jangkitan Covid-19 yang boleh diterima kerajaan?

Muhyiddin juga perlu menjelaskan bagaimana kerajaan beliau melaksanakan pendekatan melibatkan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam melawan Covid-19 sedangkan Menteri Besar Selangor tidak tahu apa-apa mengenai pelaksanaan PKPB selama dua minggu di Selangor, KL dan Putrajaya bermula esok?

Rakyat Malaysia tidak berasa yakin yang kerajaan mampu membuat pertimbangan yang seimbang di antara memaksimakan kesihatan umum dan meminimakan gangguan ekonomi dan sosial yang bakal dihadapi rakyat.

Adakah kita akan mendapat berita positif daripada pertimbangan semula keputusan MKN untuk melaksanakan PKPB di Selangor, KL, dan Putrajaya?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Selasa, 13 Oktober 2020)

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How to co-operate with Najib when he is not prepared to admit the 1MDB scandal?

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Early this morning, I received a message asking whether a Coverage report with the heading “DAP Lim Kit Siang : ‘To Save Malaysia, I Am Prepared To Work With Najib To Restore Democracy & Implement Key Reforms’ ”  dated October 15, 2020 came from me.

This was my reply: “It’s a very qualified statement where principles and national objectives take priority. Yes I am prepared to work with Najib to save Malaysia – but how can this be done when he is not prepared to admit the 1mdb scandal?”

The Coverage report has gone  viral on the social media, with the objective to give the impression that I agree with DAP working with Najib Razak and UMNO to form a new national government to replace the Muhyiddin government.

This is the work of social media “influencers” with their pack of cybertroopers to disseminate fake news and false impressions.

The report is actually a self-explanatory Malay Mail report of 12th March 2016 when Najib was still the Prime Minister just after I had signed the Citizens’ Declaration in March 2016 to Save Malaysia.

There have been much water under the bridge in the past four years – the seemingly Najib government had fallen, Najib had been found guilty of corruption offences by the Kuala Lumpur High Court and he and his Ministers are facing other multiple corruption charges in the  courts, the Pakatan Harapan government had been toppled by the backdoor “Sheraton Move” conspiracy  after 22 months and the country is faced with an illegitimate and kakistocratic administration which had brought on Malaysians the second and third waves of the  Covid-19 pandemic.

The overarching national objective to “Save Malaysia” from a trajectory of a kleptocratic, kakistocratic and a failed state is as urgent as ever.

The challenge is whether we can inspire Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, politics, class, age or gender  to mount another herculean effort to “Save Malaysia” – after  the failure of the earlier  “Save Malaysia” campaign.

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Thursday, 15th October 2020)

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Bagaimana untuk bekerjasama dengan Najib jika beliau tidak bersedia untuk mengakui skandal 1MDB?

Awal pagi hari ini, saya telah menerima mesej mengenai sama ada laporan The Coverage yang bertajuk “DAP Lim Kit Siang : ‘To Save Malaysia, I Am Prepared To Work With Najib To Restore Democracy & Implement Key Reforms’ ” yang bertarikh 15 Oktober 2020 dikeluarkan oleh saya.

Berikut adalah jawapan saya: “Kenyataan ini adalah kenyataan bersyarat, di mana prinsip dan objektif negara diberikan keutamaan. Ya, saya bersedia untuk bekerjasama dengan Najib untuk menyelamatkan Malaysia — tetapi bagaimanakah perkara ini hendak dilakukan jika beliau tidak bersedia mengakui mengenai skandal 1MDB?”

Laporan portal The Coverage ini telah tular di media sosial, dengan objektif untuk mengatakan yang saya bersetuju untuk DAP bekerjasama dengan Najib Razak dan UMNO untuk membentuk sebuah kerajaan baharu bagi menggantikan kerajaan Muhyiddin.

Ini adalah kerja “pemengaruh” media sosial dengan sokongan tentera siber mereka untuk menyebarkan berita dan tanggapan palsu.

Laporan ini sebenarnya adalah laporan daripada akhbar Malay Mail yang bertarikh 12 Mac 2016, semasa Najib masih lagi merupakan seorang Perdana Menteri, sejurus selepas saya menandatangani Deklarasi Rakyat pada Mac 2016 untuk Menyelamatkan Malaysia.

Sudah terdapat banyak perkembangan yang berlaku dalam tempoh empat tahun yang berlalu — kejatuhan kerajaan Najib, Najib didapati bersalah di atas tuduhan rasuah di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur, beliau bersama-sama dengan menteri beliau berhadapan dengan pelbagai lagi dakwaan rasuah di mahkamah, kejatuhan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan yang disebabkan oleh konspirasi “Langkah Sheraton” selepas 22 bulan, dan negara kita berhadapan dengan pemerintahan tidak sah dan kakistokratik yang membawa bersamanya gelombang kedua dan ketiga wabak Covid-19.

Matlamat “Selamatkan Malaysia” daripada sebuah trajektori kleptokratik, kakistokratik, dan sebuah negara gagal ini kekal relevan dan mendesak.

Cabarannya adalah sama ada kita mampu untuk memberikan inspirasi kepada semua rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, latar belakang politik, kelas, umur, mahupun jantina, untuk bersama “Selamatkan Malaysia” — selepas kegagalan usaha menyelamatkan Malaysia sebelum ini.

(Komen Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Khamis 15 Oktober 2020)

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Najib gripes that UMNO is blamed for the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia when it was solely  the fault of Bersatu

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Malaysia is now in the midst of an unprecedented political tornado.

The next six-and-half weeks will see plots, sub-plots, counter-plots and counter-sub-plots emerging from the woodworks over the shape and form of the government of Malaysia – as the present backdoor Muhyiddin government which emerged  from the byzantine Sheraton Move conspiracy  lacks the legitimacy, capability and resources to be an effective government.

This is why in the first public pronouncement by the former Prime Minister and UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak since he was toppled in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018, explaining why UMNO should drop support for Bersatu, he griped that UMNO is blamed for the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia  as a result of the Sabah state general election when it was solely the fault of Bersatu.

He blamed  the National Security Council  (NSC) for rejecting the suggestion from the Health Minister, Dr. Adham Baba, who is from UMNO, to implement mandatory quarantine on those returning from Sabah before the state elections.

But the person who shot down Adham’s suggestion, when it was first made publicly on Nomination Day of the Sabah state general election, was none other than the UMNO vice president and senior UMNO Defence  Minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who described any report that a mandatory quarantine order to Malaysians travelling back from the state to the peninsula as “fake news” and declared that he would be the one responsible to announce any decisions made on Covid-19 travel restrictions, based on advice from the Health Ministry.

Najib also blamed the Bersatu’s Home Affairs Minister Hamzah Zainuddin for not properly isolating prisoner or observing the standard operating procedures (SOP) which caused the clusters in several detention centres in Kedah, Perak and Penang.

Najib said: “If such mistakes did not occur, there would not be a third wave of Covid-19 in Malaysia. And now, Umno is also being blamed for the third wave.”

Clearly, Najib does not agree with Hamzah that “PN” stands for “Penyelamat Negara” as Hamzah had claimed in Sabah.

UMNO leader, Nazri Abdul Aziz hit the nail on the head when he said that selective court prosecution was among the reasons which led to an enraged UMNO leadership mulling to withdraw support for the PN government.

UMNO President, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, protested too much when he denied that UMNO’s review of support for the PN government was linked to court cases of Najib, Zahid and other UMNO leaders.

What must have been particularly  galling was the release of the former Sabah UMNO Chairman and Chief Minister from his 46 counts of corruption charges to mount an conspiracy to dislodge the Warisan Plus Sabah State Government –  and which brought in the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia – while other UMNO leaders like Najib and Zahid  have to go through  their trials  in court.

Be that as it may, Malaysia has been plunged into unprecedented times.

Parliament is meeting on Nov. 2, and regardless of the outcome of  Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s attempt to get Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s “no confidence” motion voted in Parliament, Nov. 23 will be a day that the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, cannot avoid – as on that day the government’s 2021 Budget will be voted on in Parliament.

Until then, Malaysians will see various contortions and political acrobatics in Malaysia’s “Game of Thrones”.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Thursday, 15th October 2020)

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Najib merungut mengatakan yang UMNO dipersalahkan kerana gelombang ketiga Covid-19 sedangkan perkara itu adalah salah Bersatu

Malaysia sedang mengharungi satu puting beliung politik.

Dalam tempoh enam dan setengah minggu yang akan datang, kita akan dapat melihat pelbagai plot, komplot, plot berbalas yang bakal muncul dari pelbagai sudut mengenai bentuk dan rupa kerajaan Malaysia — memandangkan kerajaan Muhyiddin sedia ada ini, yang muncul daripada konspirasi rumit Langkah Sheraton tidak memunyai keabsahan, kebolehan, dan sumber untuk menjadi sebuah kerajaan yang berkesan.

Kerana inilah, dalam pengumuman pertama daripada seorang mantan Perdana Menteri dan Presiden UMNO, Datuk Seri Najib Razak sejak kerajaan beliau ditumbangkan dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada 9 Mei 2018, menjelaskan sebab-sebab UMNO perlu menarik balik sokongannya terhadap Bersatu, beliau merungut yang UMNO telah dipersalahkan di atas kemunculan gelombang ketiga wabak Covid-19 yang terjadi akibat daripada Pilihan Raya Negeri Sabah, sedangkan perkara ini adalah salah Bersatu.

Beliau telah menyalahkan Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN) kerana menolak cadangan daripada Menteri Kesihatan, Dr Adham Baba dari UMNO, yang mencadangkan supaya kuarantin mandatori dilaksanakan kepada mereka yang pulang daripada Sabah sebelum PRN negeri tersebut.

Tetapi, individu yang menolak cadangan Adham yang pada mulanya diumumkan pada Hari Pencalonan PRN Sabah itu adalah Naib Presiden UMNO sendiri yang merupakan Menteri Kanan Keselamatan, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, yang menolak dakwaan sebarang laporan mengenai perintah kuarantin mandatori kepada rakyat Malaysia yang pulang dari Sabah ke semenanjung sebagai “berita palsu” dan mengisytiharkan yang beliau bertanggungjawab untuk mengumumkan sebarang keputusan mengenai sebarang sekatan perjalanan berkaitan Covid-19, berdasarkan nasihat daripada Kementerian Kesihatan.

Najib juga telah menyalahkan Menteri Dalam Negeri Bersatu, Hamzah Zainuddin kerana tidak mengasingkan para banduan secara betul atau mematuhi prosedur operasi standard yang mengakibatkan berlakunya beberapa kluster penularan di Kedah, Perak, dan Pulau Pinang.

Najib berkata: “Jika kesilapan-kesilapan ini tidak berlaku, tidak wujudnya gelombang ketiga Covid ini di Malaysia.”

Jelas sekali, Najib tidak bersetuju dengan Hamzah yang mengatakan “PN” adalah singkatan kepada “Penyelamat Negara” seperti yang didakwa Hamzah di Sabah.

Pemimpin UMNO, Nazri Abdul Aziz menjelaskan keadaan semasa dengan tepat sekali apabila beliau mengatakan yang pendakwaan berpilih adalah salah satu perkara yang menyebabkan para pimpinan UMNO marah dan mempertimbangkan untuk menarik sokongan mereka kepada kerajaan PN.

Presiden UMNO, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, membantah keras dalam menafikan yang keputusan UMNO untuk mempertimbangkan semula sokongan mereka kepada kerajaan PN ini mempunyai kaitan dengan kes mahkamah Najib, Zahid, dan pemimpin UMNO yang lain.

Apa yang pastinya lagi mengecewakan adalah pelepasan mantan Pengerusi UMNO Sabah dan Ketua Menteri Sabah daripada kesemua 46 dakwaan rasuah beliau, untuk mencetuskan satu konspirasi jahat untuk menjatuhkan kerajaan Warisan Plus negeri Sabah — yang kemudiannya membawa gelombang ketiga penularan Covid-19 di Malaysia — sedangkan pemimpin UMNO yang lain seperti Najib dan Zahid terpaksa melalui perbicaraan mereka di mahkamah.

Apa-apa pun, Malaysia kini berada dalam satu waktu yang tidak menentu.

Parlimen akan bersidang pada 2 November ini, dan tidak kiralah apa pun hasil usaha Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah untuk memastikan usul tidak percaya daripada Tun Dr Mahathir dapat diundi dalam Dewan Rakyat, 23 November adalah satu tarikh yang tidak dapat dielakkan oleh Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin — memandangkan tarikh tersebut adalah hari di mana Belanjawan 2021 kerajaan akan diundi di Parlimen.

Sehingga hari itu tiba, rakyat Malaysia akan dapat melihat pelbagai helah dan tindakan politik dalam “Game of Thrones” Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Khamis 15 Oktober 2020)

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In accordance with Yang di Pertuan Agong’s advice to avoid  political uncertainty amidst Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysians should be especially alert to the  blizzard of fake news and false impressions perpetrated by social media influencers

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The Yang di Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah has repeated his call to not plunge the country into another round of political uncertainty amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

In accordance with the Yang di Pertuan Agong’s advice to avoid political uncertainty amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysians should be especially alert to the blizzard of fake news and false impressions perpetrated by social media influencers.

A good case in point is the Coverage report yesterday making use of a four-year-old report to manufacture the false impression that I support DAP working with Najib Razak and Zahid Hamidi to form a new national government to replace the Muhyiddin Yassin backdoor government.

The devilish Coverage piece went viral on the social media giving the false impression that I want the DAP to co-operate with Najib and Zahid to topple Muhyiddin, but die-hard DAP supporters  know that the DAP leaders will not compromise their integrity and principles to co-operate  with kleptocrats.

In the United States, a  former fundraiser for US President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty next Tuesday to charges of illegally lobbying Trump to drop an investigation into a massive 1MDB financial scandal, but in Malaysia, former Prime Minister and key  1MDB personality  Najib Razak still denies there was a 1MDB scandal.

We Malaysians do not want to be United States, whose President Trump was recently identified in various studies of various prestigious universities as the main vector of misinformation and fake news.

Malaysians must develop a high degree of media literacy to ensure that they do not become victims of misinformation and disinformation, whether fake news or false impressions, like the Coverage report yesterday.

I am thankful to the DAP MP for Kluang, Wong Shu Qi who did excellent detective work to ferret out the shadowy characters behind this MCA-related website (https://link.medium.com/jA8ElWgJCab) and drag them out  into the limelight.

It will be interesting to probe as to why this MCA-related website wants to perpetrate the false impression that the DAP is like the MCA and is prepared to work with Najib.

But it is more important, however, that Malaysians should become the most sophisticated social media users in this information age  with a high degree of media literacy, able to detect all forms of misinformation and disinformation, whether fake news and false impressions disseminated by paid cybertroopers or bots.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, October 16, 2020)

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Selari dengan nasihat Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk mengelakkan ketidakstablilan politik dalam negara semasa pandemik Covid-19, rakyat Malaysia perlu peka dengan ribut berita palsu dan tanggapan palsu yang disebarkan oleh pemengaruh media sosial

Yang di Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah telah mengulangi nasihat baginda untuk tidak menjunamkan negara kita ke arah ketidakstabilan politik semasa negara sedang berhadapan dengan wabak Covid-19.

Selari dengan nasihat Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk mengelakkan ketidakstablilan politik dalam negara semasa pandemik Covid-19, rakyat Malaysia perlu peka dengan ribut berita palsu dan tanggapan palsu yang disebarkan oleh pemengaruh media sosial

Satu contoh yang jelas adalah laporan The Coverage semalam, yang telah menggunakan satu laporan yang diterbitkan empat tahun yang lalu untuk mewujudkan satu tanggapan yang salah yang kononnya saya menyokong kerjasama DAP bersama dengan Najib Razak dan Zahid Hamidi untuk membentuk sebuah kerajaan baharu bagi menggantikan kerajaan pintu belakang Muhyiddin.

Laporan jahat The Coverage ini telah tular di media sosial, memberikan gambaran palsu yang saya mahu DAP bekerjasama dengan Najib dan Zahid untuk menjatuhkan Muhyiddin, tetapi penyokong setia DAP tahu yang pemimpin DAP tidak akan berkompromi dengan integriti dan prinsip mereka untuk bekerjasama dengan kleptokrat.

Di Amerika Syarikat, seorang mantan pengumpul derma kempen Presiden AS Donald Trump dijangkakan akan mengaku bersalah pada hari Selasa depan atas tuduhan melobi Trump secara haram untuk mengugurkan penyiasatan skandal kewangan gergasi 1MDB, tetapi di Malaysia pula, mantan Perdana Menteri, yang juga merupakan individu utama 1MDB, Najib Razak, masih menafikan terdapat sebarang skandal berkaitan 1MDB.

Kita rakyat Malaysia tidak mahu menjadi seperti di Amerika Syarikat, di mana Presiden Trump dikenali dalam pelbagai pengajian di institusi-institusi pengajian berprestij sebagai penyebar utama kekeliruan dan berita palsu.

Rakyat Malaysia perlu membangunkan kesedaran media yang tinggi untuk memastikan mereka tidak menjadi mangsa pengeliruan dan penyalahgunaan maklumat, sama ada melalui berita palsu ataupun tanggapan palsu seperti yang dilakukan oleh The Coverage semalam.

Saya berterima kasih kepada Ahli Parlimen DAP Kluang, Wong Shu Qi, yang telah melakukan satu kerja penyiasatan yang cemerlang dalam mengenal pasti siapa di sebalik laman web berkait MCA (https://link.medium.com/jA8ElWgJCab) ini dan mendedahkan identiti mereka.

Menarik untuk disiasat mengapa laman web berkaitan MCA ini juga cuba untuk memberikan gambaran salah yang DAP ini seakan-akan serupa dengan MCA dan bersedia untuk bekerjasama dengan Najib.

Namun apa yang lebih penting adalah untuk semua rakyat Malaysia menjadi pengguna media sosial yang sofistikated dalam era maklumat, dengan kesedaran media yang tinggi dan boleh membezakan semua bentuk penipuan dan penyelewengan maklumat, sama ada berita palsu mahupun gambaran salah yang disebarkan oleh tentera siber dan bot.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Jumaat, 16 Oktober 2020)

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Khairuddin should be referred to the Committee of Privileges when Parliament meets on Nov. 2 for violating Covid-19 SOP and threatening the health and lives  of MPs with his wilful attendance of Parliament on July 13, 14 and 16 when he should be on 14-day home quarantine

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The Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister, Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali should be referred to the Committee of Privileges when Parliament meets on November 2, 2020 for violating the Covid-19 SOP and threatening the health and lives of Members of Parliament with his wilful attendance of Parliament on July 13, 14 and 16 when he should be on 14-day home quarantine on his return from Turkey on July 7.

Will the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin move such a motion?

Or is Muhyiddin being held to ransom by Khairuddin and other PAS Ministers and Deputy Ministers, as the Muhyiddin government will  fall if PAS withdraws support, especially at a time when UMNO is mulling to quit the Perikatan Nasional government and wants a new deal?

It is a pathetic spectacle so see the Khairuddin  investigation papers being treated like a shuttlecock between the police and the Attorney-General’s chambers.

It does the Police no credit whatsoever that there is no  decision yet on Khairuddin’s case although the police started investigations some nine weeks ago over a simple open-and-shut case!

If the Police are unable to competently complete its investigations into the case, so that the Attorney-General’s Chambers Prosecution Division  could make a decision, how are Malaysians expect to have confidence in the police on more complicated cases?

Muhyiddin took one whole week before commenting on Khairuddin’s Ministerial misdemeanour, saying that no one is exempted from the law, and that  it is up to the relevant authorities to conduct a thorough investigation and take appropriate action.

Is he not concerned that no action had been taken  on the Khairuddin case although it is now more than three months after the Minister’s violation of the Covid-19 quarantine SOP on July 7?

In the circumstances,  the question whether Muhyiddin is being held to ransom by Khairuddin and the other PAS leaders not to take any action or they will withdraw support for the Muhyiddin Government  is a pertinent and valid one which deserves an answer.

At a time when the Covid-19 epidemic is regarded as the nation’s foremost problem, as well as globally  as worldwide over 39 million  people have been infected and over 1.1 million people had been killed by Covid-19, no Minister who violated the Covid-19 SOP has the moral authority to  remain in the Cabinet.

Has PAS no other MP to replace Khairuddin as Minister for Plantation Industries and Commodities?

I have given notice that I will raise the issue of Khairuddin’s violation of the Covid-19 quarantine SOP in the November meeting of Parliament.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 16th October 2020)

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Khairuddin perlu dirujuk kepada Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan apabila Parlimen bersidang bermula 2 November kerana melanggari SOP Covid-19 dan membahayakan kesihatan serta nyawa ahli-ahli Parlimen dengan menghadiri sidang Parlimen pada 13, 14, dan 16 Julai, sedangkan beliau sepatutnya menjalani kuarantin 14 hari di rumah

Menteri Perusahaan Perladangan dan Komoditi, Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali perlu dirujuk kepada Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan apabila Parlimen bersidang pada 2 November 2020 kerana melanggari SOP Covid-19 dan mengancam kesihatan dan nyawa ahli-ahli Parlimen dengan menghadiri persidangan Parlimen pada 13, 14, dan 16 Julai sedangkan beliau sepatutnya menjalani kuarantin di rumah selama 14 hari semasa itu.

Adakah Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin akan membentangkan usul untuk perkara ini?

Atau adakah Muhyiddin akan terus dipegang sebagai tebusan oleh Khairuddin dan para menteri dan timbalan menteri PAS, memandangkan kerajaan Muhyiddin ini akan tumbang jika PAS menarik sokongan mereka, terutamanya dalam masa di mana UMNO sedang mempertimbangkan untuk menarik semula sokongan mereka kepada kerajaan Perikatan Nasional dan mahukan satu tawaran baharu.

Menjadi satu perkara yang menyedihkan melihat kertas siasatan Khairuddin dilayan seperti bulu tangkis, dilempar di antara pihak Polis dan Pejabat Pendakwa Raya berulang kali.

Perkara ini tidak membantu imej pihak Polis langsung, untuk sebuah kes yang sangat mudah di mana siasatan ke atas kes Khairuddin ini telah dibuka sembilan minggu yang lalu.

Jika pihak Polis tidak dapat untuk menyelesaikan siasatan mereka bagi membolehkan Bahagian Pendakwaan Pejabat Pendakwa Raya membuat keputusan, bagaimanakah rakyat hendak percaya dan yakin dengan kebolehan pihak Polis untuk menyelesaikan kes-kes yang lebih rumit?

Muhyiddin sendiri mengambil masa selama seminggu sebelum memberikan sebarang komen mengenai kesalahan Khairuddin ini, mengatakan yang tidak ada sesiapa pun yang terkecuali daripada undang-undang, dan terserahlah kepada pihak berkuasa yang berkenaan untuk menjalankan siasatan menyeluruh mengenai perkara ini dan mengambil tindakan yang berpatutan.

Adakah beliau tidak peduli yang tidak ada sebarang tindakan telah diambil ke atas kes Khairuddin ini, walaupun tiga bulan sudah berlalu sejak beliau melanggar SOP kuarantin Covid-19 pada 7 Julai yang lalu?

Dalam keadaan seperti ini, persoalan mengenai kedudukan Muhyiddin sebagai Perdana Menteri yang dipegang sebagai tebusan oleh Khairuddin dan para pemimpin PAS untuk tidak mengambil tindakan ke atas mereka bagi memastikan sokongan berterusan kepada beliau adalah satu persoalan yang sah dan memerlukan satu jawapan.

Dalam masa di mana wabak Covid-19 dianggap sebagai masalah terbesar negara dan juga di peringkat global, dengan lebih daripada 39 juta orang telah dijangkiti dan lebih daripada 1.1 juta nyawa telah terkorban, tidak ada mana-mana menteri yang telah mengingkari SOP Covid-19 layak untuk kekal sebagai menteri Kabinet.

Adakah PAS tidak mempunyai mana-mana Ahli Parlimen yang lain untuk menggantikan Khairuddin sebagai Menteri Perusahaan Perladangan dan Komoditi?

Saya telah memberikan notis untuk membangkitkan isu pelanggaran SOP kuarantin Covid-19 oleh Khairuddin ini dalam persidangan Parlimen pada bulan November depan.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Jumaat, 16 Oktober 2020)

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Third call on Muhyiddin to convene emergency zoom Cabinet meeting to channel all available resources to fight third wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah

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I am making a third call on the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, to convene an emergency zoom Cabinet meeting to channel all resources to fight the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah.

If there is no response from Muhyiddin, I will next call for his resignation for gross incompetence and ineptitude of his Cabinet.

The question will also arise  whether a Prime Minister or Minister who is on a 14-day home quarantine should be regarded as going on leave and should  not be functioning from the four walls of his residence.

Already, Malaysia is operating as if there is no Health Minister after the disastrous “warm water” episode of Adham Baba, two weeks after he was named to this office, followed by his “500 countries and 15 states” bloopers.

As a result, the Health Director-General  is single-handedly, together with the frontliners, waging  the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, even when the Health Director-General  was on 14-day home quarantine because of the Covid-19 infection of a Cabinet Minister.

It is to be noted that in the  initial fortnight of becoming a Health Minister, there were occasions when Adham Baba announced the latest development and statistics about the Covid-19 pandemic  but after the “warm water, 500 countries and 15 states” episodes, this has not recurred.

Adham Baba is from UMNO, but ironically, the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak is complaining  that UMNO is blamed for  the third wave of Covid-19 epidemic although he said it was the fault solely of Bersatu!

Hasn’t UMNO an MP who could be a more competent and efficient Health Minister?

But it is not only the Health Ministry which is operating as if there is no Minister, this applies to other Ministries as well, in particular the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry since the Minister’s  escapades on his return from Turkey on July 7,  violating the Covid-19 quarantine SOP and threatening the health and lives of other Ministers and Members of Parliament.

Other Ministries, like   Education and Higher Education, have not been examples of competence, efficiency and far-sightedness either.

It is no exaggeration to say that Malaysians are suffering from  the weakest, most incompetent and unaccountable government since the formation of the backdoor Muhyiddin administration after the Sheraton Move conspiracy, causing not only the second wave but also the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the 14-day  Sabah state general election campaign, Muhyiddin visited Sabah three times, and he promised that more aid and allocations would  be extended to Sabah for the benefit of Sabahans if the Sabah state government is aligned with the Federal Government.

Is Sabah going to be the place he first visits after his 14-day home quarantine because of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Instead of fulfilling his election pledge to the people of Sabah, Muhyiddin seems to have left Sabahans  to their own devices after bringing about the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sabah.

When did the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic begin and when is it going to peak and begin to flatten the curve?

Officially, the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic began on Sept. 20, but it could have started on Sept.12, the Nomination Day of the Sabah state general election, or even earlier.

On Sept. 1, Sabah was the sixth state with Covid-19 cases on the cumulative count, having 426 cases as compared to KL (2,587 cases), Selangor (2,174 cases), Negri Sembilan (1,034 cases), Johore (751 cases) and Sarawak (699 cases).

In terms of cumulative fatalities, Sabah was No. 5 with Negri Sembilan with eight deaths, after Selangor (24), Johore (21), Sarawak (19) and Kuala Lumpur (18).

Now, Sabah has become the top state both in terms of cumulative total of Covid-19 infections and fatalities, with a cumulative total of 6,286 cases and 51 fatalities out of a  Malaysian total of  18,758 cases and 176 fatalities.  Selangor, the second state in cumulative total of infections, have 3,014 cases  and 24 fatalities while third is Kuala Lumpur with  2,824 cases  and 19 fatalities.

Is this the “reward” to the people of Sabah  for voting in a Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) State Government aligned to the Federal Government?

The summoning of an emergency zoom Cabinet meeting to fulfil Muhyiddin’s pledge to the people of Sabah during the Sabah state general election to channel all available resources to Sabah in the fight against the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia is urgent and imperative especially as the Health Director-General, Noor Hisham Abdullah has called for volunteers outside Sabah to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic  in Sabah and the  warning by epidemiologist, Dr. Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud that Sabah’s public healthcare might collapse in the next few weeks if cases continue to rise at the same rate in the Borneo state.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, October 17, 2020)

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Seruan ketiga supaya Muhyiddin memanggil mesyuarat Kabinet melalui Zoom untuk menyalurkan semua sumber yang ada bagi membantu usaha melawan gelombang ketiga Covid-19 di Sabah

Saya membuat seruan buat kali ketiga kepada Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, untuk memanggil satu mesyuarat Kabinet tergempar melalui Zoom, untuk menyalurkan semua sumber yang ada bagi membantu usaha melawan gelombang ketiga Covid-19 di Sabah.

Jika tidak ada sebarang tindakan daripada beliau, langkah seterusnya untuk saya adalah untuk menyeru beliau untuk meletakkan jawatan kerana kegagalan dan ketidakcekapan Kabinet beliau.

Persoalan juga akan timbul, mengenai sama ada kuarantin di rumah Perdana Menteri atau menteri selama 14 hari ini bermakna seseorang menteri itu bercuti dan bukannya masih menjalankan tugas beliau daripada rumah masing-masing.

Sedia adanya, negara kita seakan-akan tidak mempunyai seorang Menteri Kesihatan sejak berlakunya episod bencana “air suam” Adham Baba, yang berlaku dua minggu selepas beliau dilantik sebagai Menteri Kesihatan, episod yang kemudiannya disusuli dengan kesilapan “500 negara dan 15 negeri” beliau.

Akibatnya, tinggal hanya Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan bersama-sama dengan para petugas barisan hadapan yang menggerakkan peperangan melawan wabak Covid-19 ini, walaupun semasa Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan sedang menjalani kuarantin di rumah selama 14 hari selepas seorang Menteri Kabinet yang didapati positif dijangkiti Covid-19.

Perlu kita ingati, dalam dua minggu pertama selepas menjadi Menteri Kesihatan, terdapat waktu-waktu di mana Adham Baba sendiri mengumumkan perkembangan terkini dan statistik mengenai Covid-19, tetapi selepas insiden “air suam” dan “500 negara dan 15 negeri”, perkara ini tidak berlaku lagi.

Adham Baba ini dari UMNO, tetapi yang ironinya, mantan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak merungut mengenai UMNO dipersalahkan kerana berlakunya gelombang ketiga Covid-19 sedangkan beliau percaya semuanya adalah salah Bersatu!

Tidakkah UMNO mempunyai mana-mana Ahli Parlimen lain yang lebih kompeten dan efisien sebagai Menteri Kesihatan?

Tetapi, bukan Kementerian Kesihatan sahaja yang beroperasi seakan-akan tidak mempunyai seorang menteri, perkara ini juga berlaku dalam kementerian lain, terutamanya Kementerian Perusahaan Perladangan dan Komoditi sejak pelarian menterinya selepas beliau pulang daripada Turki pada 7 Julai, dengan mengingkari perintah SOP kuarantin Covid-19 dan membahayakan nyawa serta kesihatan para menteri dan ahli parlimen lain.

Kementerian lain, seperti Pendidikan dan Pengajian Tinggi, tidak berjaya menjadi contoh yang kompeten, efisien, dan berpandangan jauh juga.

Bukanlah satu kenyataan yang keterlaluan apabila dikatakan rakyat Malaysia terseksa di bawah satu kerajaan yang paling lemah, paling tidak kompeten, dan paling tidak bertanggungjawab sejak penubuhan kerajaan pintu belakang Muhyiddin selepas berlakunya konspirasi Langkah Sheraton, yang membawa bukan sahaja gelombang kedua penularan Covid-19, tetapi juga gelombang ketiga wabak ini.

Dalam 14 hari tempoh berkempen pilihan raya negeri Sabah, Muhyiddin telah melawat Sabah sebanyak tiga kali, dan beliau menjanjikan lebih banyak bantuan dan peruntukan akan diberikan kepada Sabah untuk manfaat rakyat Sabah jika kerajaan negeri Sabah sejajar dengan kerajaan Persekutuan.

Adakah Sabah akan menjadi tempat pertama yang dilawat beliau selepas kuarantin di rumah selama 14 hari kerana wabak Covid-19?

Muhyiddin dilihat seperti telah mengabaikan rakyat Sabah untuk berhadapan dengan takdir mereka bersendirian selepas membawa gelombang ketiga wabak ini ke Sabah dan bukannya memenuhi janji pilihan raya beliau kepada rakyat Sabah.

Bilakah gelombang ketiga pandemik Covid-19 ini bermula dan bilakah gelombang ini akan memuncak dan mula untuk mendatar?

Secara rasminya, gelombang ketiga ini bermula pada 20 September, tetapi, ia mungkin bermula pada 12 September, pada hari penamaan calon PRN Sabah, ataupun lebih awal lagi.

Pada 1 September, Sabah berada di tempat ke-enam dengan jumlah kes terkumpul Covid-19 tertinggi, mencatatkan 426 kes, berbanding dengan KL (2,587 kes), Selangor (2.174 kes), Negeri Sembilan (1.034 kes), Johor (751 kes) dan Sarawak (699 kes).

Dari segi jumlah korban nyawa terkumpul, Sabah berada di tempat ke-lima pada masa itu, dengan Negeri Sembilan dengan lapan kematian, selepas Selangor (24), Johor (21), Sarawak (19) dan Kuala Lumpur (18).

Kini, Sabah adalah negeri dengan jumlah terkumpul tertinggi untuk kedua-dua kes jangkitan dan korban nyawa, dengan sejumlah 6,286 kes dan 51 kematian, daripada 18,758 kes dan 176 kematian di seluruh negara. Selangor, negeri di tempat kedua, mencatatkan 3,014 kes dan 24 kematian manakala di tempat ketiga, Kuala Lumpur mencatatkan 2,824 kes dan 19 kematian.

Adakah ini “hadiah” kepada rakyat Sabah yang mengundi kerajaan negeri Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) yang selari dengan kerajaan Persekutuan?

Mengadakan mesyuarat khas kabinet melalui Zoom untuk memenuhi janji Muhyiddin kepada rakyat Sabah yang dibuat semasa PRN Sabah untuk menyalurkan semua sumber yang ada ke Sabah dalam usaha untuk membantu melawan gelombang ketiga Covid-19 di Sabah ini amatlah penting dan mendesak, terutamanya selepas Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah telah memanggil para sukarelawan daripada luar Sabah untuk datang membantu melawan wabak Covid-19 ini di Sabah, dan selepas amaran daripada pakar epidemiologi, Dr Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud, yang mengatakan sistem kesihatan awam Sabah mungkin akan runtuh dalam beberapa minggu yang akan datang jika kes terus meninggkat pada kadar sedia ada di negeri Borneo tersebut.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Sabtu, 17 Oktober 2020)

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Limiting Parliament coverage to 15 media organisations arbitrary, discriminatory and against the very spirit of parliamentary reforms

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The limiting of coverage of the November budget  parliamentary session to 15 media organisations is arbitrary, discriminatory and against the very spirit of parliamentary reforms which should inform all parliamentary decisions.

This decision is particularly unacceptable as the selected 15 media organisations are not the top 15 media organisations if the people of Malaysia have a say in choosing them.

In any event, this decision should not be made by parliamentary administrators but should be made by the Dewan Rakyat House Select Committee, which is entrusted with the task “to consider and advise Tuan Yang di-Pertua upon all matters connected with the comfort and convenience of and services and amenities available to members of the House” Under Standing Order 79 (1).

Why is the Dewan Rakyat House Select Committee completely excluded from this decision, as if anyone can argue that media coverage of Parliament is not one of the “services and amenities available to members of the House”!

Although the Covid-19 pandemic must be taken seriously ( and if Covid-19 pandemic is taken seriously, the Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister would have been referred to the Committee of Privileges for violating the Covid-19 quarantine SOP and threatening the health and lives of other Ministers and MPs), is it beyond Malaysian parliamentary ingenuity to ensure broad media coverage by opening a larger room in parliament, in compliance with physical distancing requirements?

The decision to limit media coverage of the November budget parliamentary session to 15 media organisations must be reviewed immediately, and in the review, the House Committee and representative media organisations must be allowed to give their input and suggestions.

The present situation where all the Select and Special parliamentary committees are in hibernation and could not meet is most scandalous.

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Sunday October 18, 2020)

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Tindakan menghadkan liputan media Parlimen kepada hanya 15 organisasi media bersifat sembarangan, mendiskriminasi, dan bertentangan dengan semangat reformasi Parlimen

Tindakan menghadkan liputan media sesi Parlimen Belanjawan November ini kepada hanya 15 organisasi media adalah satu tindakan yang bersifat sembarangan, mendiskriminasi, dan bertentangan dengan semangat reformasi Parlimen yang sepatutnya menjadi asas semua keputusan berkaitan dengan Parlimen.

Keputusan ini sangatlah tidak boleh diterima, memandangkan 15 organisasi media ini bukan pun 15 badan media yang tertinggi, jika rakyat Malaysia diberikan peluang untuk memilih mereka.

Apa-apa pun, keputusan ini tidak sepatutnya dibuat oleh pihak pentadbiran Parlimen, tetapi sepatutnya diputuskan oleh Jawatankuasa Dewan Dewan Rakyat, yang diamanahkan dengan tanggungjawab “untuk  menimbangkan dan menasihatkan Tuan Yang di-Pertua atas segala perkara berkaitan dengan kesenangan dan kemudahan serta khidmat-khidmat dan kenikmatan-kenikmatan yang terdapat bagi ahli-ahli Majlis” seperti yang tertakluk di dalam perkara 79(1) Peraturan Mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat.

Mengapakah Jawatankuasa Dewan Dewan Rakyat dikecualikan sama sekali daripada mempertimbangkan keputusan ini, seakan-akan liputan media di Parlimen ini bukanlah salah satu “kemudahan serta khidmat-khidmat yang terdapat bagi ahli-ahli Majlis”!

Walaupun wabak Covid-19 ini memang perlu diambil serius (dan jika benar wabak ini diambil serius, Menteri Perusahaan Perladangan dan Komoditi sudah tentunya telah dirujuk kepada Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan kerana mengingkari SOP kuarantin Covid-19 serta membahayakan nyawa dan kesihatan para menteri dan ahli-ahli Parlimen), adakah menyediakan ruang yang lebih besar di Parlimen, untuk membolehkan peraturan penjarakan fizikal dipatuhi, suatu perkara yang berada di luar kemampuan pihak Parlimen?

Keputusan untuk menghadkan liputan media ini perlu disemak semula segera, dan dalam menyemak semula keputusan ini, Jawatankuasa Dewan serta wakil-wakil media haruslah diberi peluang untuk memberikan input serta cadangan mereka.

Situasi semasa di mana semua Jawatankuasa-jawatankuas Dewan Rakyat berada dalam keadaan hibernasi dan tidak bersidang ini adalah satu skandal besar.

(Komen Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Ahad 18 Oktober 2020)

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