"Kalau hasil minyak dan gas Sabah dan Sarawak diguna untuk negeri sendiri dan tak payah kongsi dengan negeri lain, dah tentu punya Sabah dan Sarawak membangun sama maju dengan Semenanjung"
"Bangang punya Dr. Mahathir!!!"
Mungkin macam tu kut bunyi Dr. Masing belasah Dr. Mahathir kalau diterjemah guna gaya bahasa aku.
Borneo post melaporkan:
KUCHING: Land Development Minister Tan Sri Dr James Masing has questioned the rationale in asking the people of Sabah and Sarawak to remain patient for development projects to be implemented, considering that the states are major oil and gas producers in the country.Sebelum ni aku ada melaporkan:
Masing, who is Baleh assemblyman, was not impressed with the recent statement by former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad that people of the two states should be patient for natural resources to be extracted and the fruit of foreign investments to materialise before they can experience the same tempo of development as their counterparts in the Peninsula.
“Mahathir asked Sarawakians and Sabahans to be patient? Our oil and gas resources are depleting, almost finished and he asked us to be patient? If we have used our oil and gas revenue strictly for our own state all these years, Sarawak would definitely be on par with Peninsular Malaysia in terms of development,” he said when contacted yesterday. - BorneoPost.
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Lagi satu, patut jugak ditanya kepada Dr. Masing, mana hilangnya peruntukkan berbillion-billion dari kerajaan persekutuan selama ni ditambah pulak dengan royalti 5% dari minyak dan gas asli yang petronas bayar kepada kerajaan negeri.
Walaupun cuma 5% royalti tak sepatutnya Sabah dan Sarawak masih lagi jadi antara negeri termiskin tapi pemimpin BN pulak yang kaya-raya.
Nota kaki makan cekam: Tanpa memang prejudis
