In one of its more tersely-worded statements yet, State Reform Party (STAR) accused fellow opposition Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing of being a traitor to Sabah’s cause, having defected from Barisan Nasional only to sleep with another peninsular party, Pakatan Rakyat.
STAR’s Sabah chapter deputy chairman, Daniel John Jambun, said Bumburing’s comment in the local media on Tuesday that the Orang Asal, especially the Kadazandusun and Murut, should not pin their hopes on STAR is patently mischievous, misconceived and misleading.
“It should be condemned in no uncertain terms by all right-thinking Sabahans, deplored and exposed as ‘the mother of all lies’ by a political has-been who shamelessly continues to be a stooge of the local proxies of the peninsular masters,” said Jambun who also leads a UK-based Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia Foundation (BoPiMaFo).
On Tuesday, Bumburing painted a picture that there is no future for the natives in STAR but in PKR-led Pakatan Rakyat. He suggested that his newly-minted NGO, Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS), is the right one for new hopes for the Sabah natives especially the Kadazandusuns.
But hawkish Jambun in his statement today reminded Bumburing that STAR is all about the dignity of the people of Sabah and Sarawak, and that man does not live by bread alone.
“Bumburing, being a long-serving Upko deputy president before defecting to Pakatan, was a stooge of Umno in Upko. Now he appears wanting to continue to be a stooge but this time in Pakatan via his so-called Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS).
“The people here look at these Sabah and Sarawak proxies and stooges of peninsula-based parties, especially those operating in Borneo, as traitors who must be driven out from our politics…” Jambun claimed.
He also stressed that by driving out such traitors it would be like cleansing Sabah natives’ spirits of the politics of self-serving leeches, parasites and bloodsuckers which has plagued them since they lost their self-determination on July 22 (Sarawak) and Aug 31 (Sabah) in 1963.
“The issue before us is clear. We must oppose the Malayan Agenda, which is very obvious to our eyes now, which is all about internal colonisation.
“Opposing internal colonisation is the thrust of our Borneo Agenda struggle which is in line with what the Borneon natives want. This we will put it to the voters at the coming election.
“We shall walk that path from generation to generation for an eternity, if necessary, until we are finally free again and the Malayan colonialists have left our nations in Borneo,” said Jambun.
Divided Malays
Jambun also said the more Bumburing and his APS speak bad about a resurgent STAR, the more they appear like a puppet of the Malayan Agenda.
“We hope it shall be revealed to Bumburing and his small group of armies soon that they are no better than a puppet.
“They must be treated with the utmost contempt, rooted out from our body politics and destroyed if self-dignity and Borneo empowerment are to be realised at the coming general election.
“This is the only way that we will be able to stand on our two feet again and regain our rightful place as nations in Malaysia – Sabah and Sarawak – if not as free, independent and sovereign countries in the community of nations recognised by the United Nations,” Jambun added.
He also said that Sabah has a historical window of opportunity before her to strike a blow for Sabah and Sarawak.
“The 12th general election in 2008 divided the politics of Peninsular Malaysia, in particular the Malay-speaking communities – Bugis, Javanese, Minang, Achehnese and Indian Muslims – or the 55% majority, forever.
“The 45% minority communities, divided by ethnicity, language, religion, geography and economics, stand poised to rule Malaysia with moderate elements from the Islamic faith.
“Sabah and Sarawak will be the beneficiaries of the emerging new politics in Malaysia on both sides of the South China Sea,” he said.
He said compounding the complexity of the new politics will be the emergence of a third force led by STAR in a hung Parliament, which will emerge from the 13th general election.
“This third force will come from both Malaya and Borneo since not everyone will be committed to the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan.
“All these developments are beyond comprehension of people like Bumburing and other local political parties which are being held to ransom by the peninsular parties for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.
“The Orang Asal in particular have a real opportunity at last to neutralise the illegal immigrants on the electoral rolls and end their marginalisation and disenfranchisement engineered by BN and likely to be continued by Pakatan in the absence of a third force,” Jambun added. (FMT)
By : LUKE RINTOD (sabahkini)
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Purge Bumburing From Sabah Politics
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Anwar Ibrahim’s favourite haunt to boost his ego with the ready MPs and state assemblymen to ‘jump ship’ to suit their own purpose.
ReplyDeleteSo far Wilfred Bumburing from Tuaran, Lajim Ukin and Senator Maijol Mahap have defected to Anwar while he boasts of few more coming over to his side.
ReplyDeleteThe Sabah ‘jump overs’ have been Anwar’s ‘ace cards’ as he struggles to ‘convince’ more to jump, making it easier for him to go to Putrajaya, his ultimate aim in life probably.
ReplyDeleteHe was just ‘an inch’ away from Putrajaya when he was knocked down by passing train..ha ha ha…which make him so mad that he would not want to rest until he gets the ‘throne’. And in his madness, craze for power to do anything he wants, he travels around the country looking for ‘jumpers’ to achieve his aim, to fulfill his yearnings to be the number one man in the country.
ReplyDeleteSabah, for him is a playground as the people there, as far he is concern, are easy prey to his magical charms, his promises that he himself has yet to fulfill which he probably has doubts himself.
ReplyDeleteEasy manipulation…Anwar the man who manipulates anybody to get to his goal now treats Sabah as his new ‘source of political income’ which is votes…as he knows his manipulations can go far in that state.
ReplyDeleteThe state is not a new playground for him but it is an old playground revisited, the state that had disappointed him in September 2008 and now he is out for revenge, the vendetta he had waited three years.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Anwar is probably in for a second disappointment. The people who defected actually have no more influence over the voters whom they claimed are their supporters.
ReplyDeleteSabahans are now much more clever and smarter. They know they are sought after by politicians of both the divide and they know very well who are the liars and who are the workers, those who work to uplift their economic status.
ReplyDeleteThey know the truth about all the politicians that fly up and down their state, the politicians that throw promises and never fulfill and those that give no promises but deliver the goods.
ReplyDeleteBagus jugalah kalau Bumburing berhenti dalam politik ini. Memalukan diri saja berjuang tanpa ada hala tuju yang tetap.
ReplyDeleteTidak perlulah cuba memeningkan rakyat dengan pelbagai alasana.
ReplyDeleteTerbukti yang mana Bumburing sama saja seperti Lajim yang keluar disebabkan atas gilakan kuasa pemerintahan.
ReplyDeleteLajim telah banyak menyusahkan penduduk Sabah. Nasib juga dia bertindak keluar parti sekurangnya tidak ada lagi parasit seperti Lajim dan bumburing ini di dalam parti.
ReplyDeleteKerana jika mereka ini terus bersama BN pasti akan timbul masalah besar dalam parti.
ReplyDeleteBumburing sudah tidak ada lagi yang percaya dengan beliau kerana beliau sudah menghianati para penyokongnya dahulu.
ReplyDeleteBanyak yang telah dilakukan oleh kerajaan untuk membangunkan Sabah, hanya lajim yang tidak tahu menghargai.
ReplyDeleteMinister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz will be replying to all the questions posed by Tuaran member of parliament Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Bumburing on October 22.
ReplyDelete“I have noted the Tuaran member of parliament’s many questions as to the cause of the extraordinary increase in Sabah population. I believe that we have time during the debate and I promise to answer all the questions Yang Berhormat has raised on the 22nd,” Nazri was quoted as saying in the parliamentary sitting’s Hansard.
ReplyDeleteNazri said this in reply to Bumburing’s additional question during the parliamentary sitting last week where he refuted the former’s reasoning that the population increase was a ‘natural’ one.
ReplyDelete“We are all aware that Sabah’s population increase is caused by the presence of illegal immigrants in the state and I have the statistics which I will include in my budget speech later. I also would like to point out an issue that is related with the security in Sabah.
ReplyDelete“I would like to ask the government if it realizes that the illegal immigrants’ presence has affected all aspects in Sabah, including the economy. Now the illegal immigrants have taken over the work not only in factories, plantations but also railway and markets.
ReplyDelete“They are now in control but there seems to be no action by the government. They also contribute to 80 per cent of the criminal activities in the state and the government has to spend RM12 million annually to cater to the health needs of the illegal immigrants,” Bumburing stressed.
ReplyDeleteHe also claimed that the security issue in Sabah was worrying and the government should take long-term steps to resolve the problem.
ReplyDeleteBumburing was of the opinion that the setting up of the Royal Commission of Inquiry was a concrete step but it seemed that the government was dragging its feet on the matter as it was only done after political pressure.
ReplyDeleteLast week Nazri said the presence of 889,770 legal and illegal foreigners in Sabah was not a threat to the country or the state’s security and order.
ReplyDeleteHe also said while the national population growth was 2.5 per cent annually, the growth in Sabah was higher.
ReplyDelete“The population growth rate is higher in Sabah compared to Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia for several reasons, including the presence of illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries,” he said in response to a question by Bumburing on whether the presence of 800,000 foreigners in Sabah posed a threat to national safety and security.
ReplyDeleteHe said the relevant authorities, including the police, immigration, national registration and the Chief Minister’s Department were constantly monitoring the situation.
ReplyDeleteOn June 1, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the setting up of the RCI to investigate the long-standing problems related to illegal immigrants in Sabah, as the government was committed to resolving the issue.
ReplyDeleteSabah reportedly has more than half a million illegal immigrants, mostly Filipinos and Indonesians.
ReplyDeleteDue to the influx of immigrants since the late 1960s, the state recorded a 410 per cent population growth in 40 years from 648,000 in 1970 to 3,309,700 in 2010.
ReplyDeleteNegara kita negara demokrasi. Rakyat diberi pilihan untuk menjadi anggota mana parti. Apa masaalahnya? Pentadbiran sesebuah negeri dan Negara bukan monopoli sesebuah parti, kaum dan bangsa sahaja. Sesebuah parti politik yg dipilih rakyat ramai akan mengetuai sesebuah kerajaan.Rakyat bebas memilih. Kalau rekod sesebuah kerajaan itu buruk , rasuah, mengamalkan nepotisma dan tidak adil kita pilih kerajaan baru. Jangan rakyat ini bodoh.
ReplyDeletepertahankan negara sabah...bukan negeri..!!
ReplyDeleteTakkan rakyat Sabah nak kutip parti yg telah dibuang oleh rakyat Sarawak!
ReplyDeleteDr. Jeffry adalah bekas PKR Naib Presiden. Tapi Dr. Jeff ini kita tau bukan penyebar mau saja diatas atas kesombongannya. Disebabkan PCS tdk didaftar maka keluar PKR n dia buat srategi baru dgn agendanya utk mnjadi ketua n tertubuhlah UBF. Pengikutnya masuk UBF n dia ke Sarawak mau rapat dgn STAR n berjayalah dia bawa STAR ke Sabah. Apa yang saya perhati n lihat bawah semua pengikutnya kurang kreadibiliti. Daniel John yang kalah n Dr. Jeff sendiri. Dr. Jeff lah bah menyebabkan PKR bertapak kuat di Sabah dengan ceremah politiknya PRU12. Jadi pengikut PKR yang setia tidak mau ikut Dr.Jeff sebab kita dah tau pendiriannya tdk tetap, hanya impiannya mau jadi KM bah tu. Saya fikir kempunan jadi YB jika tidak berkompromi dengan PR tentang calun yang boleh menang.
ReplyDeletePemimpin yang tidak konsisten dalam politik menunjukkan mereka tiada pendirian terhadap perjuangan mereka. susah mau percaya orang macam ni.
ReplyDeleteBoleh menang ka STAR di Sabah ni??
ReplyDeleteJK hanya mempergunakan parti untuk capai kepentingan politiknya.
ReplyDeleteLajim dan Bumburing akan ikut jejak Jeffrey.
ReplyDeleteKalau sudah keluar UPKO, kita tengoklah nanti macam mana sambutan Bumburing di kawasan beliau.
ReplyDeleteRakyat Sabah masih keliru dengan perjuangan APS.
ReplyDeleteKalau sokong Pakatan, kenapa tidak saja sertai salah satu komponen dalam PR?
ReplyDeleteAPS dikatakan NGO tapi memihak pada PR. bukankah NGO merupakan badan bebas??
ReplyDeletePakatan Pembangkang TIDAK boleh terlalu ghairah dengan kemasukan Lajim dan Bumburing dalam Pakatan Pembangkang. Mereka belum pasti memecahkan "undi BN". Sebaliknya, mereka dilihat lebih berkemungkinan besar "memecahkan undi pembangkang".
ReplyDeleteBumburing mengatakan bahawa dia sudah "tiada pilihan".
ReplyDeleteBumburing dan Lajim BUKAN faktor kekuatan BN di Sabah. Bumburing dan Lajim pernah bersama dalam PBS sebagai ADUN dan Menteri Penuh dalam Kabinet Negeri Sabah era PBS. Lajim sekali lagi menjadi Menteri Penuh selepas BN mengalahkan PBS dalam PRU11. Manakala Bumburing (BN-UPKO) KALAH di tangan Edward Linggu (PBS...kini menyertai STAR).
ReplyDeleteSebagai rekod, pada PRU12, Bumburung memenangi kerusi MP Tuaran atas tiket BN-UPKO.
ReplyDeleteTanpa jentera BN, kemenangan Lajim dan Bumburing tidak akan secemerlang seperti PRU12.
ReplyDeleteBN Tuaran dan Beaufort sudah sedia menyusun semula strukturnya. Ketiadaan Bumburing dan Lajim BUKANlah penyebab lumpuhnya BN di Bahagian-Bahagian itu. Lebih jauh lagi, memberi impak terhadap BN di Bahagian-Bahagian yang lain.
ReplyDeletePemimpin politik datang dan pergi. Apatah lagi seperti Bumburing dan Lajim yang SUDAH TIADA PILIHAN. Mereka ghairah sementara.
ReplyDeletePembangkang di Sabah juga ghairah sementara sahaja. Bila rakan lama yang ditinggalkan menyusun semula Bahagian dan strategi, pasti pertembungan akan berlaku. Pemimpin yang RAPUH pasti mudah patah dan kecundang.
ReplyDeletePolitik cari makan..kemampuan apa yang mereka ada selain daripada Politik.kerjaya dalam bidang politik tidaklah susah mana yang penting pandai kelentong selain itu di kenali ramai untuk berbuat demekian tidak susah carilah cerita yang mendapat perhatian .
ReplyDeleteAPS n PPS adalah hanya membantu kempen memenangkan calun PR PRU13 untuk menukar kerajaan Puterajaya. Kita dah tahu bahawa Dk Wilfred lantang dengan isu PATI dan pemberian projek IC dimana beliau menyerahkan memerodum perkara tersebut namun Menteri Dalam Negeri tdkpun membacanya hanya di jawab terlalu tebal, tiada projek IC. Pengwujudan RCI hanya gula2 politik, belumpun ada tanda2 kemajuan, dahpun lenyap n tdk kedengaran perkembangannya.
ReplyDeleteAttempting to divine a common thread from Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's pronouncements over time is an exercise in patience or madness, depending on one's perspective. It becomes far harder when dealing with the question of party-hopping, and the matter is not clarified by his Opposition pact allies.
ReplyDeleteEveryone remembers or knows of Anwar's famous September 16, 2008 pledge, and his claim that enough Barisan Nasional MPs would cross the floor to give him the Dewan Rakyat and Putrajaya.
ReplyDeleteThe much-promised switch never materialised, even when Anwar and his increasingly-desperate-looking comrades insisted that a little more time was needed. At the time, however, in the immediate wake of GE12, Anwar not only never suggested that there was anything immoral about party-hopping, he positively gloried in the chance of it.
ReplyDeleteHis, and Pakatan's, stance changed less than a year later when Perak suddenly went back to Barisan Nasional in a wave of floor-crossings. At that moment, everyone from Anwar to unofficial Pakatan allies such as Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan found every friendly microphone and media outlet, online and offline, to announce that crossing the floor was immoral, illegal, and precipitated a constitutional crisis.
ReplyDeleteMost recently, Anwar has spent a month and more -- with more than a few false starts -- praising party-hoppers in Sabah, and as is usual for the Opposition Leader, promising more defections with few tangible results.
ReplyDeletePresumably, party-hopping with remain for Anwar a positive good for the rakyat until the exact moment Nasharudin Mat Isa leaps from PAS to Umno, at which point it will be in defiance of the rakyat's will and arguably a crime.
ReplyDeleteAnwar's notorious, opportunistic ambiguity is beginning to wear thin even for Pakatan's faithful, who are beginning to wonder -- based on his Google Hangout talk last weekend -- whether Anwar has taken leave of his senses. In the chat, Anwar opined that taking on the very politicians who had created a weakness for BN in Sabah would be a positive good for Pakatan because, in Anwar's words:
ReplyDelete"With these institutions (accepting a new culture in our political life, accepting the new agenda... accepting the Buku Jingga) in place, I frankly do not worry about individuals who may have the pension and venture to embark on policies that would be deemed to be dangerous or would sabotage the reform programme."
ReplyDeleteAnwar's well-known penchant for crowd-pleasing would be unremarkable except for the bizarre response from Pakatan Rakyat. Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has announced a proposed change in Penang's laws to forbid party-hopping.
ReplyDeleteDAP Chairman Karpal Singh promises that Pakatan will introduce a constitutional amendment against party-hopping if the Opposition takes Putrajaya at GE13. PAS claims that it has always been against party-hopping.
ReplyDeleteYet PKR remains silent on the subject, and other than Karpal, no one has claimed a unified stance on crossing the floor for Pakatan. This is unremarkable in itself -- no once claims any unified stance from Pakatan except raw opposition to Barisan Nasional -- but all of this is not occurring in a vacuum.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, when Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin announced that he would be leaving Umno for Pakatan, and forming a party to contest with Pakatan at GE13, Pakatan Rakyat was giddy. When it came out that he had spoken with Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat before hopping, PAS -- bearers of an alleged tradition against party-hopping -- applauded.
ReplyDeleteOne might accuse Pakatan Rakyat of raw opportunism, and suggest that this sudden stance against 'frogs' is not a result of deeply-held principle.
ReplyDeleteOne might suggest that the 'frogs' in Sabah were gladly welcomed by Pakatan, but that DAP and PAS are now opposed to 'frogs' because Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's recently-announced Royal Commission of Inquiry has blunted the defection momentum and Nasharudin is openly flirting with Umno.
ReplyDeleteThat is unfair. There is no indication whatsoever that Pakatan is nearly that well-organised.
ReplyDeleteInstead, it seems that Pakatan's position on 'frogs' is much like every other position they hold: adamant and unchanging until the moment it changes. Penang may soon have a prohibition on it. Kelantan's old prohibition may find teeth. Kedah is uncertain, and given Anwar's position, there is no danger of such a law in Selangor soon.
ReplyDeleteSo as with every other issue, Pakatan will limp into GE13 with a wildly disparate policy on 'frogs', raising again the question for the rakyat of whether even in Government, Pakatan Rakyat can forge a common policy.
ReplyDeleteWhither the Future of 'Frogs' in Pakatan Rakyat?
ReplyDeleteOpposition in Sabah will never win
ReplyDeleteKeep on bickering with each other and let BN win easily.
ReplyDeleteapa yang diperjuangkan Bumburing? lihat Tamparuli yang diwakilinya sejak tahun 1985, tak da kemajuan.
ReplyDeleteTamparuli yang diwakilinya sejak tahun 1985, kecuali selepas dia keluar daripada PBS, bertanding atas tikit PBS (kini UPKO) dan kalah. Kalau lah beliau mempunyai penyokong di Tamparuli, pasti beliau tidak akan kalah.
ReplyDeleteTahun 2008, Bumburing memohon peluang untuk sepenggal, atas sebab itu penyandang sebelumnya Madius Tangau, memberi laluan. Dengan menggunakan tikit BN, barulah beliau mengecap semula gelaran wakil rakyat.
ReplyDeleteBumburing sebenarnya tiada pilihan, kerana beliau tidak akan dicalonkan lagi pada PRU-13 jika beliau masih dalam BN, kerana sesuai dengan perjanjiannya dengan Madius Tangau, hanya sepenggal, ertinya pada PRU-13 nanti- Madius Tangaulah calon BN bagi Tuaran.
ReplyDeletefaktor Bumburing tidak akan mengubah sokongan KDM terhadap BN, kerana sehebat manapun Bumburing, tidak akan mampu melawan krisma yang ada pada Huguan Siou Tan Sri Pairin Kitingan.
ReplyDeleteBumburing begitu gahirah melancarkan kenderaan baru mereka, akan tetapi di pihak BN menghadapinya tenang-tenang sahaja, kerana tindakan mereka itu sudah lama diduga.
ReplyDeleteSedarlah wahai para pemimpin Kadazan-Dusun-Murut, setelah mengecapi kemajuan semua pun ingin jadi Champion, Kita sedang dipecah dan ditawan. Singkirkan keegoan, materialistis, kegilapangkatan, kegilakuasaan masing-masing, walau apapun keyakinan, fahaman politik. Satukan lah kadazan-dusun-murut dalam satu parti untuk ketuanan kita di negeri ini.
ReplyDeleteThe people will punish the three politicians in Sabah who defected as the community in the state does not tolerate “party-hoppers”, said Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDelete“They are just there for political expedience and we must reject this culture, we must reject this kind of behaviour.
Ongkili, who is also science, technology and innovation minister, said the KadazanDusun Murut (KDM) community has traditionally been critical of leaders who defect, in reference to the recent crossovers by Sabah MPs Datuk Wilfred Bumburing (Tuaran), Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin (Beaufort) and Senator Datuk Maijol Mahap.
ReplyDeleteCiting the example of the 1999 state election, which saw several political casualties, Ongkili said the people voted out several prominent politicians for having defected to Barisan Nasional (BN) from then opposition PBS.
ReplyDeleteThe KDM people don’t like party-hoppers, (they) don’t like people without principles.
ReplyDeleteIn 1999, we had state election for the first time after the (1994) hopping.
ReplyDeleteExcept for Lajim, Wilfred and (Tan Sri Bernard) Dompok became victims (of an unhappy electorate).
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteHe (Dompok) was chief minister, and Bumburing was deputy chief minister; that’s how Sabah people mete out punishment to people without principles,” he said after signing a memorandum of understanding on science and technology cooperation between Malaysia and Mozambique.
Ongkili also criticised Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for saying more crossovers are expected from Sabah BN leaders.
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ReplyDeleteIf Anwar Ibrahim continues with this plan, buying people, collapsing government through enticements and crossovers, then what kind of national principles do we have for politics and what kind of leadership will we put in Parliament.