Jeffery has been exceptionally polite he doesn't have to be, but then that is the result of good upbringing which many of our BN candidates seem to lack as is displayed by their very actions.
Jeffery did not note that the BN government delayed action on the recent Sabah intrusion a decision that cost some precious lives of Police personnel.
The delay was in fact read by many Malaysians as tolerating the Suluks, who the people of Sabah say were trained by the Malaysian Armed Forces during their troubles with Manila all these were left out.
PRESS STATEMENT
Najib hypocritical
on Sabah security -- Jeffrey
KOTA KINABALU: The State
Reform Party (STAR) says the caretaker prime minister is being hypocritical in
his attitude towards the security Sabah.
"When did the opposition become a threat
to the nation?" Jeffrey demanded. "What we need is for the people to
eject and defend themselves against the corrupt and power-abusing BN
government.
"Najib is deliberately twisting facts.
The one to defend a Malaysian state or the nation is not BN, not a political
party but the government of Malaysia," Jeffrey said. "To say
that only BN can provide such a defense is nonsensical because no political party
or coalition in Malaysia has any police force or army. The police and
the army belong to the people of Malaysia, not to BN!
"National defense is carried out by the
government, and when the opposition takes over the government, then the new
government will be in charge of defense, and Barisan Nasional, which then will
be in the opposition will have no power to carry our national defense!
"It's regrettable that Najib can
politicize national defense this way as if the security forces will follow the
BN into the opposition when it loses Putrajaya!" Jeffrey added.
He also took exception to Najib's hints that
the opposition maybe involved in the recent Lahad Datu intrusion, saying that it
is Umno which had numerous contacts with Jamalul and Esmael Kiram, inviting them
to the Umno general assembly as guests of honour.
"The PM had also been slow and
indecisive in handling the intrusion, wasting weeks with negotiation when the
right action would have been to attack and arrest," Jeffrey said.
"The country suffered in terms of international respect and this
indecisiveness led to the death of so many members of the Malaysian security
forces which could have been avoided. Now, Najib is expressing grief over those
deaths because of his own mistake.
"Let us not forget that the ex-OCPD of
Lahad Datu, Khamis Daming, had revealed that for years the federal government had
ignored his pleas for help in strengthening the weak defense preparedness in
Lahad Datu," Jeffrey added. "Daming had said 'If only KL had listened'
pointing out that the Lahad Datu police never had sufficient equipment and their
four-wheel drive vehicles always broke down and the petrol boats were in dire
condition, among numerous defense weaknesses and neglect.
"The federal government under the BN
acted too late, and only after loss of lives and property. What is also sad is
the fact that the East Coast towns such as Kunak had for years been the free
ports of sort, because foreigners could come and go without security checks or
immigration clearance. Then, people from the
southern Philippines could enter Sabah with complete ease
as if they were not foreigners at all.
"As far as defense is concerned I
believe the opposition, when in power, would be able to monitor and beef up
security a lot better than what is being done by the BN.
"The PM shouldn't be making statements
about security to frighten Sabahan voters into voting for the BN. This behavior
on the part of the PM seems to confirm the accusation that the Lahad Datu
intrusion was staged to frighten the people into supporting the BN, and that
there is was lot of sandiwara in the whole affair," Jeffrey claimed.
SELAMATKAN
SABAH TANAH AIRKU.
DatukDr.
Jeffrey Kitingan
Chairman
STAR Sabah
24 April 2013
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