Sarawak Rights, The Federal Constitution, MA63 And GPS
The August 13th 2021 edition of the Borneo Post features 4 news reports Datuk Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghani, Assistant Minister (Sharifah) in the Chief Minister’s department. The 4 news reports all relates to Sarawak rights which were lost in the 1976 amendment to the Federal Constitution and to the MA63.
You will find these 4 news reports on the front page and page 4 of the Borneo Post.
These are the captions to the news reports referred to:
1.State Seeks To Amend Article 1(2). In this news report Sharifah was quoted as saying, ‘We are proposing to amend the Federal Constitution by adding, The States of the Federation shall be…pursuant to the MA63.
2.MA63 Reports Not Secret But Can’t Be Revealed Yet As Talks Ongoing
3.Need To Amend Constitution To Make Sarawak A Wilayah
4.Hasidah Urges S’wakians Not To Dwell On Past Breaches Of MA63
( this was not covered in the Borneo Post online news)
News report No.4 is the epitome of contradiction because it is the dwelling on past breaches of the MA63 that pushes the issue of the amendment to the federal constitution to the fore front and making it the hot button issue that it is today. I am suddenly reminded of what Simone Weil said about contradiction - ‘When a contradiction is impossible to solve except by a lie, then we know that there really is a door’
And the timing of her statements, I can only say OMG! (oh my gosh). The PN government, in which GPS and PAS are also partners together with UMNO and Bersatu, is disintegrating as we are reading her statements now. Where is Sharifah going to find support for the amendment GPS is seeking to make? Kinda reminds me of a song called New Kid In Town (Johnny Comes Lately) by the Eagles. I’ll put the link here, just in case you want to know what song I am talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pa5nqYXEnY&list=PLIdaTDmMA6T8AvEsl8X5s7Po7wcoVQajI
What was it that prompted or motivate Sharifah to urge Sarawakians not to dwell on the past breaches of MA63 knowing fully well that the breaches resulted in losses to Sarawak of such a magnitude that it is impossible to quantify today except by its consequences: how far is Sarawak left behind the Malayan states and the unbelievable number of its citizens that are living in hard core poverty.
There is nothing complicated about amending the Federal Constitution to restore Sarawak’s rights. All that is needed is to go back to the original wordings of Article 1(2) of the Federal Constitution before the 1976 amendments. The whole problem here is the betrayal of the aspirations of Sarawakians when GPS members of parliament abstained from voting in the proposed amendments to Federal Constitution in April 2019 simply because the amendments was proposed by the then PH federal government. Then GPS MPs were sitting among the opposition block in parliament.
At that point in time they did not object to the intentions and objectives of the amendment, they just abstained from voting. Because of their abstention, the bill or the proposed amendment failed.
And, as for her statement on the MA63 being not a secret ( News report No.2 above), did Sharifah and her colleagues in the GPS state government suddenly suffered a temporary lapse of memory? They seems to have forgotten that they are elected into the DUN by the rakyat for the sole purpose of representing the rakyat and bringing the voice of the rakyat to the DUN and to the government and they owe a duty of transparency to the rakyat who voted for them.
Finally, I would like to add this: By insisting on amending Article 1(2) of the Federal Constitution using the formula she states in news report No.1 stated above they (GPS state government and its MPs) may be falling straight into the hands of Freemasons and Illuminatis.
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