Top two men from PKR Mas Gading branch leave the party with effect from today

KUCHING, May 16, 2020 - PKR Mas Gading chairman Boniface Willy Tumek and his deputy Francis Teron announced that they are leaving the party, with effect from today.

In happy times (from left) Puncak Borneo MP Willie Mongin, former PKR national women vice chief Voon Shiak Ni, Batu Lintang YB See Chee How and Boniface Willy Tumek

They said they have lost faith in the party central leadership as a reason for resigning.

They said the party’s national leadership in recent times seems no longer inclined to uphold and to live up to the once trumpeted ideals of Keadilan Dan Kesaksamaan Untuk Semua (or justice and equality for all). 

“Instead propelling the party’s president to the office of the prime minister of Malaysia became the overriding objective and in the process, key provisions in the party’s constitution, meant to promote and safeguard the principles of justice within the party were ignored,” they said in a joint statement.

“We are also greatly concerned that the state leadership was effectively prevented by the national leadership to live out ideals and spirit of the Kuching Declaration of 2012 in the running of the party’s affairs in Sarawak.

“We have concluded that the aspirations of the national leadership is no longer compatible with our aspirations for the rakyat in Sarawak hence our decision to exit PKR.

“Before we arrived at our decision we had lengthy in-depth discussions with the other members of the cabang’s leadership and consequently at least half of the line-up will also tender their resignation in due course.

“Moving forward, the autonomy of Sarawak as equal partner in the federation of Malaysia will be the main consideration in our future political undertakings, should we choose to remain active in politic,” Boniface and Francis said.

PKR Stampin committee members resign from the party, saying the party only focusing on Anwar to be PM

KUCHING, May 16, 2020 - Committee members of PKR Stampin have announced, in a joint statement, their resignation from the party with immediate effect today.

See Chee How

Reasons for leaving:

The lofty ambitions of the party remain unfulfilled while recent events reveal that the party leadership is only focused on Anwar Ibrahim’s personal ambition to be the Prime Minister.

We in Sarawak are not keen to participate in this personal agenda .

Sarawak autonomy vis MA 63 within the party were never taken seriously, as party matters continued to be decided from West Malaysia.  

Further there is no more room for having alternative views in the party. Throughout the country, members are being terminated for having dissenting opinions, It is the party’s way of telling us it the “President’s way or the Highway”. To them, Justice is merely a slogan to fish for votes.  

The termination of YB See Chee How (ex-Stampin Branch Chief) is the last straw for us. \

To us, he was the voice of justice & reason within the party.

If anyone could convince Party Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur it would have been him. The draconian act by West Malaysia to terminate him, without even a show cause letter indicate to us that all hope is gone.   

Where are they going after resigning?

We assure all our supporters in the public sphere that this was not a decision we came to lightly, but it was one we came to after many long, hard conversations with friends and family.

We had arrived at this moment through circumstances wholly under the control of the party in West Malaysia.

Nonetheless principles and the people are by far more important, It is the people who make the party and not otherwise.

It is also abundantly clear that we in Sarawak need to stand up for ourselves & our principles independent from outside influence.  

As for our next step, we shall continue to support YB See Chee How & YB Baru Bian.

Their principles, mettle, leadership has been unwavering throughout & inspire us all. They have further assured us that their priority is Sarawak, her people, their prosperity, their health and their development.  

Why did they join the party, in the first place?

We had clear objectives when we joined PKR/ Keadilan.  

Keadilan was formed in 1998 on the momentum of social reforms a.k.a. “Reformasi “with stated aims of Justice & Equality for all, sans Race or Religion.

This was on the same wavelength with us here in Sarawak wherein we recognize that for us to move forward as a nation, we must not be divided on issues of race, religion or creed.   

Our hopes were further cemented , when through the Kuching Declaration 2012 we in Sarawak obtained the consensus of all the parties in the Pakatan coalition to recognise the special position of Sarawak as an equal partner with Sabah & Malaya in Malaysia.  

(Meeting vide Zoom 14th May 2020)

Fabian Ngui / Chairman, Stampin Committee  

Loo Chao Ming /Timbalan Ketua Cabang  

Narawi Palayan Miniandi/ Naib Ketua Cabang  

Desmond Kho /Secretary, PKR Stampin Committee

Raymond Tan Teng Chin, Treasurer/ PKR Stampin Committee  

Kwang Swee Min, Social Welfare Member/ PKR Stampin Committee.  

Adrian Ngo Ching Loong/Campaign Director Cabang Stampin  

Jeffery Mok / Youth Division Secretary, PKR Stampin Committee  

Leon Lee , Committee member/PKR Stampin Committee  

See Xiang Hong , Committee Member/ PKR Stampin Committee  

Andrew Voon, Committee member/PKR Stampin Committee

Kho Chung Hong, Committee member/PKR Stampin Committee

Then Sin Fah, Committee member/PKR Stampin Committee

Phay Soon Chieh, Committee member/PKR Stampin Committee

George Liew,  Committee member/PKR Stampin Committee

Dayak leaders of PSB give full support to Wong Soon Koh

PSB Dayak leaders gave full support to Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, President PSB, on the need for the Sarawak State Government to re-examine the 2020 budget in view of the revenue collected from the sales tax of 5% on Oil and gas amounting to RM2.878 billion is questionable and may not be forthcoming.

 

Datuk Dr. Tiki Lafe, Chairman of PSB Tasik Biru Branch, said that PSB members felt that the State Government might have wrongly perceived that the statement made by Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh as an attempt to oppose the Government for the sake of opposing the 2020 budget development programmes.

Recalling the Chief Minister's winding up speech delivered on 17 November 2017 he clearly stated: ' I stand to be guided and corrected in policies.

I do hope that those in the know would come forward and give their advice to the government. I am willing to listen'.

Here, Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh made a point by offering constructive suggestion for the Government to reprioritize the development projects, bearing in mind that the State revenue from Oil and Gas is not forthcoming.

Tiki further stressed that the suggestion from PSB was purely out of sincere concern for the State's Financial situation. \

Datuk William Nyalau, Chairman PSB Batang Ai Branch, concurred with Tiki, that Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, through his undisputed and wide experiences as a Second Finance Minister for 15 years, offered a sincere, constructive suggestion due to the State's Financial situation based on the Chief Minister's budget speech for 2020 delivered on 13 Novemebr 2019 amounting to RM10.067 billion.

This amount is no longer tenable as the revenue was heavily calculated based on the expected sales tax of 5% on oil and gas amounting to RM2.878 billion, which is so crucial to the State budget and is not forthcoming.

The lower oil price will affect 5% royalties drastically and revenue from sales tax on palm oil products, timber royalty, dividen income and overall interests collectible will be very much reduced and these will definitely affect the 2020 budget on development projects and programmes.

'Furhermore, the over RM2.0 billions for the aid packages not appropriated for the contigency fund in 2020 will definitely impact the financial distress of the Government'.

'The consequence of the State's financial constraints had made Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh's call for a re-examination of the State's budget 2020 for development projects and programmes, as announced by the Chief Minister' said Datuk Masir Kujat, Chairman PSB Balai Ringin Branch.

Therefore, it is vitally important for the State government to re-adjust the overblown deficits for year 2020 by putting on hold or doing away with some of the mega projects of low priority such as the Second Trunk Road, LRT and the like.

Masir further agreed with Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh that the Government should avoid venturing into unfamiliar territory of development projects such as Hydrogen plants and Hydrogen buses.

The PSB leaders fully supported Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh when he urged the State Government to take immediate steps in reviewing the whole development initiatives for 2020 in order not to put excessive strains on the State's financial resources. - May 15, 2020

signed:

1. Datuk Dr. Tiki Lafe, Chairman PSB Tasik Biru Branch, Former Federal Deputy Minister/Former MP Mas Gading.

2. Datuk William Nyalau, Chairman PSB Batang Ai/Former MP Lubok Antu.

3. Datuk Masir Kujat, Chairman PSB Balai Ringin, MP for Sri Aman.