Kuching, Aug 24, 2012: If there are people who will be in a perilous position when Pakatan Rakyat PR) comes to power after the upcoming general election, they will be the corrupt and guilty Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders.
“They will not be the people who support and vote for the PK, but those BN leaders,” Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian told reporters today.
Baru, who is also the Ba’Kelalan State Assemblyman, was commenting on remarks made by Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Land Development Minister Tan Sri Dr James Masing in a local newspaper yesterday.
Masing was said to have remarked that it would be a political suicide to give 0pposition PK a test mandate to govern the country while giving his support to former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir’s statement that giving the opposition the mandate to rule would be dangerous as many things could be destroyed.
Baru said today:” Yes, it would be perilous indeed when the Opposition takes over from the BN. Exceedingly perilous for those who have the most to lose, those who have taken advantage of their positions of authority to enrich themselves at the expense of the people, who have remained poor and stagnant for the past 50 years.
“Perilous for the BN elite who done nothing of substance to advance the lot of the common people but who resort to giving away insubstantial sums of money nearing election time in the guise of the ‘caring’ government.
“It is perilous for the corrupt politicians and their families who have their greedy hands in every project and contract even though they do not know the first thing about the business concerned.
“(It will be) imminently catastrophic for the selfish leaders and their cronies who have taken away the lands of the natives, cut down their trees for profit of billions of ringgit and drowned the lands in their insatiable quest for even more wealth, all in the name of ‘development’.
“These are the people who will see the destruction of their parasitic way of life and easy money as they have known it.
“Their misdeeds will be revealed just as the cowgate and Scorpene scandals were uncovered,” Baru said, adding that investigations will be carried out on these people and their leader, a man and his family members who are said to be stakeholders in more than 400 companies in 25 countries, worth several billion US dollars, robbed from the people of Sarawak.
Baru pledged that there will be no witch-hunting against BN leaders when PR comes to power.
“We will just allow the process of law to take its course. This country is governed by the rule of law so we will let the law to takes its course,” he explained, saying that PK’s policy is based on justice and that is what the people want to see.
He said that the Attorney-General has to discharge his duties in accordance with the law when investigating corrupt practices and abuse of power against those involved in such practices.
Baru said the people, therefore, have nothing to lose by giving a mandate to the Opposition.
“They have already lost their lands, their livelihood, their pride, their chance for advancement and now their patience with a government lacking accountability and transparency.
“The BN government has had 50 years to run the country and if indeed they have done such a sterling job, they should have nothing to worry about and that they should be able to let the record speak for them.
“Unfortunately for them, among their more memorable achievements are a dangerously high national debt, a soaring crime rate (and a police force that manipulates the statistics to fit the KPI), a rakyat fearful for their safety, a culture of rent seeking, cronyism and corruption, ministers mired in kickback scandals, murder allegations, bailout of family companies using public funds and many more of similar unpalatable nature.
“In contrast to that, the PR is offering the very positive track record of the Opposition-run states and the promise to put in place a Federal Government that is competent, accountable and transparent.
“That is why are we now seeing BN politician after BN politician, day after day in the mainstream press trying to instill fear into the rakyat by giving silly warnings about what would happen if there is a new government.
“The rakyat are now mature enough to discern that the current crop of leaders does not have sound policies to sell nor any track record to back them up, hence they resort to selling fear.
“After all, fear is in plentiful supply within the BN clique, and the fearful are eager to spread the fear.
“However, in their attempt to do so, they come across as tired defenders of a government that has let the people down time and again.
“Even now, in their bid to restore some credibility, the Najib administration has nothing original to offer but instead has been implementing or promising to implement policies borrowed from the Pakatan Rakyat manifesto.
“Examples are the abolishment of the ISA, the implementation of the RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah and ‘Project IC’ and the proposal to lower car prices,” Baru said. By Sematong Express.
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