KUCHING, July 10, 2014: Sarawak Opposition leader Chong
Chieng Jen has slammed PBB Youth for not supporting Chief Minister Adenan
Satem's commitment of not allowing his immediate family members from applying
for state land and logging licences from the state government.
Chong to PBB Youth:Why don't you support Adenan's policy?
"I challenge PBB Youth to start a movement within
PBB and BN to ensure that all the state cabinet ministers and assistant
ministers support Adenan’s new policy to prohibit their immediate family
members from applying for state land and logging licences," he said today.
Responding to PBB Youth's statement, Chong also dared PBB
Youth to organise a forum to hear out the evidence of cronyism, nepotism and corrupt
practice in the administration of the state government.
"This is in respect of its statement claiming that
my allegation of cronyism, nepotism and
corruption in the state were without basis, but with malicious intention,"
he said.
He said that he has 10-inch thick documents on the list
of state lands being alienated to companies owned by the family members of certain
PBB leaders in the past 15 years, at less than a quarter of the then market
price.
"I also have a list of government contracts awarded
to companies owned by the family members of certain PBB leader in the past 15
years, without going through open tender process.
"These are clear evidence of cronyism and nepotism
practised by the BN State government.
All these have been produced countless times in ceramahs and forums
organised by DAP in the past few years," Chong, who is also the Sarawak
DAP chairman, said to reporters.
"If the PBB Youth is so ignorant of these facts, I
hereby challenge the PBB Youth to hold a forum at a public place open to public
for me to review each and every piece of evidence to show that my assertion that
the state government has been plagued
with cronyism, nepotism and corrupt practice is true and with strong
basis," he asserted.
He also challenge
PBB Youth to name any of his 10-point Policy Reforms that have already become
the BN policy.
He said that the PBB Youth have unashamedly claimed that
some of his proposed 10-point policy reforms “had already become the policies
and practices of the BN government which have been given priority to the
interest of the people”.
On July 7, Chong proposed a 10-point policy reforms for
Adenan to adopt, and these are: open tender for all government projects, open
tender for alienation of State land for plantation and development and open
tender of logging licences for forest
areas of 500ha and above.
He also proposed to Adenan to introduce Freedom of
Information Ordinance, implement land-to-the-tiller
policy, with each family to receive a plot of agricultural land of 20 – 30-
acres, and that every family has its own house by building sufficient
inexpensive good quality housing flats and implementing “rent-to-own”
policy.
He also proposed to Adenan to provide good and free
public bus services for Kuching, Sibu, Bintulu and Miri, appoint a opposition
state assemblyperson as the chairman of
Public Accounts Committee.
He also wanted the chief minister to provide an annual
allocation of fund for Chinese and Mission schools and the revival of English
Medium Mission Schools through State-Private joint funding as well as to
restore local government elections.
"I am challenging the PBB Youth to state, which of
the 10-point policy reforms I proposed which had already become the policies
and practices of the BN government," he said.
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