Why SAbah was the richest in the world under the British

SAbah was clearly colonised by Great Britain and UK admits it, while
SAbah is also clearly colonised by Malaya, despite denials by Malayan
officials and their servants in Sabah.

Sabahans don't really care whether we are colonised or not, since we
are used to it. What matters is if the colonial masters are fair or
compassionate or not. Clear the British are much better than Malaya.
FActs show it clearly in all former British colonies despite the
propaganda uttered by the later colonial masters using locality as an
excuse to plunder citizens.

When you want to compare, you must compare apples with apples, oranges
with oranges. In the case of development, you must compare the same
time and take into account the number of people residing at that time.

A good indicator of wealth is car.
Now BN likes to lie about the fact that Sabah has more cars now than
under the British, to show that Sabah is now more wealthy under
Malaya. What they fail to tell you is that, based on facts and figures
from all the world bodies and Sabah Government's EPU(Economic Planning
Unit), the number of cars per population is the worst in Malaysia, and
if you compare with the rest of the world, among the worst. After all,
Malaysia does not have the highest car ownership in the world.

What it means that even the poorest nations on earth, have more cars
per population than even Sabah. Watching documentaries and news clips
will clearly show the cars roaming the streets of the poorest nations
on earth.

Under the British, just after the wars, there are a few cars in Sabah,
much less than now, but many other nations, don't even have cars at
all. You may argue that UK has more cars than Sabah in those days, but
if you take into account the much lower population of Sabah, Sabah is
almost the same level in car ownership as UK, which makes Sabah among
the richest in the whole world.

The railway is even clear. There is not a single increase in railway
track under Malaya. Under the British, it was from zero, to hundreds
of kilometers, which is at an infinite rate. Many regions still do not
have any railway, e.g. Sarawak, even now.

Sabah also has the most advanced communication system in the world,
much better than Malaya. It was at par with Singapore but since Sabah
has much less population, it makes Sabah, the best equipped in the
whole world.
You may argue that it was used to ease the job of colonising Sabah,
but who cares. At least Sabahans also benefit, unlike the current
exploitation by the Malayan colonialists.

Our oil and gas is exploited without any benefit for Sabahans at all.
Not even jobs. While the British will recruit Sabahans and even train
them if they are not well trained yet, unlike the Malayans who give
excuses that Sabahans are not qualified for any job on offer.

Any qualified Sabahans will be transfered to Malaya under the so
called integration. It is more like suppressions. Just imagine UK
sending Sabahan workers to work in UK. The British didn't do this, but
Malaya does.

Under the British, jobs are plenty. It was Sabahans who don't want to
work. Under Malaya, Sabahans had to go out of Sabah to work, while
Malayans, who call themselves Malaysians, take the posts in Sabah, as
well as foreigners, giving excuses that Sabahans are lazy and stupid,
the usual excuses.

The British never call Sabahans lazy and stupid, and will train
Sabahans to handle even the most demanding tasks, just as piloting
ships. My father and many of my relatives are proofs of this.

Under Malaya, Sabahans, can't even get jobs as Police Constables, let
alone teachers. Just look at the policemen and teachers in Sabah, and
find out how many are locals. The Malayan workers outnumber Sabahans
by significant margins, whereas you hardly find British teachers in
Sabah under the British.

Of course you can find exceptions, but these are just excuses and it
was a hard fight for Sabahans to get jobs in Sabah, and you have to
make lots of sacrifices.

I just pity the life of my children. All our children must be prepared
to work overseas. You just can't find jobs in Sabah. Or as what my
brothers had done, get jobs in Malaya while waiting for openings in
Sabah. This had been going on since 30 years ago, and it should get
worse.

Afer cutting off Sabah's Limbs, Sabah is blamed for being Lazy, and Musa agrees

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From: "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad" <othm...@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 11:20 pm
Subject: THEFT OF RESOURCES LOWERING GDP, not LAZINESS
To: soc.culture.malaysia

On Jul 2, 11:06 pm, "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad" <othm...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>http://sabahcolonised.blogspot.com/2011/07/theft-of-resources-lowerin...
> Paul Saccani has made a comment about the current state of affairs in
> Sabah which appear to be valid but actually nonsense. BAsed on real
> case stories in SAbah, Nigeria and even Indonesia before REformasi. It
> is called THEFT OF RESOURCES.

> And yet the victims are condemned as stupid and lazy. But for the
> Sabah case, we have cases to fall back to of incidences before the
> THEFT and after the THEFT.

Also it is well known that GDP is affected by government expenditures.
The GDP in Sabah must have been severly affected by the lack of
government expenditures in the past that its GDP has dropped so low.
Now the low GDP is used as a guide in allocating fund to SAbah which
is grossly unfair. After stealing from Sabah, making it the POOREST IN
THE WORLD, money is allocated only based on its GDP so called alleged
productivity.
Just like cutting off your limbs and blame you for not producing your
share of work after you have lost all your limbs.

The statements that Sabahan is stupid and lazy is well know to be made
by idiotic West Malaysians, who is so proud of their idiocy like one
minister who does not even know that Sandakan district is bigger than
the state of Pahang.

THEFT OF RESOURCES LOWERING GDP, not LAZINESS

Paul Saccani has made a comment about the current state of affairs in Sabah which appear to be valid but actually nonsense. BAsed on real case stories in SAbah, Nigeria and even Indonesia before REformasi. It is called THEFT OF RESOURCES.

And yet the victims are condemned as stupid and lazy. But for the Sabah case, we have cases to fall back to of incidences before the THEFT and after the THEFT.


On Jul 2, 4:33 pm, Paul Saccani wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:45:21 -0700 (PDT), "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj.

> Ahmad" wrote:
> >On Jul 1, 9:34 pm, Paul Saccani wrote:
> >> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:12:38 -0700 (PDT), "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj.

> >> Ahmad" wrote:
> >> >The current GDP for Sabah is 4%, not 6%.

...

> >Either interpretation, Sabah is still clearly discriminated. If the
> >share of malaysian GDP is only 10% whereas Sabah's population is 15%,
> >with an area of 23%, this is certainly a blatant discrimination and
> >lack of progress that Sabah had experienced.

> Again, you fail to comprehend your own cited article. It stated that
> Sabah's share of the GDP was 6%, and the article forecast that it
> would increase to 10%.

> For you to talk about discrimination is to expose your complete
> failure of comprehension once again. Using your figure of Sabah as
> 15% of the population of Malaysia, along with the figure of 6% of GDP
> produced there, the conclusion is that Sabahans are less than half as
> productive as the rest of Malaysia.

Even with most of the petroleum and oil palm produced in Malaysia???
Sabah is still less productive. Have you ever wondered why?

Do you know how GDP is calculated?

> >the usual way of measuring GDP is the growth % per year.

> Well, no, that is a complete and utter nonsense. And in any case the
> article was completely explicit;

No it doesn't. Even I only mention GDP instead of GDP annual growth,
and many authors use these simplified terms as well.

If you really want to be explicit, then use the word absolute GDP.

> "In terms of numbers, we think Sabah will increase its overall share
> in Malaysia's GDP from six per cent to 10 per cent in the next five
> years as it will grow faster than the more saturated Peninsular
> Malaysia,"

> In other words, unproductive Sabahans will increase their productivity
> by two thirds, according to the forecast. Even then, they will still

per Sabahan.

> be producing much less than their fair share of the work.

Valued in Ringgit Malaysian terms, per person.

They can do the same job, but paid much much less.

Have you ever wondered why? Idiot.

When all resources are stolen from SAbah, to be spent in West
Malaysia, their GDP per capita increases in terms of RM.

Whereas, Sabah, whose resources are stolen, have less GDP per capita
expenditure, simply because a lot of its money are stolen.

GDP has nothing to do with productivity. It is called GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCT for good reasons. Only idiots will use it as a sole
productivity measurement.

It is a good and fair measurement because it takes into account world
monetary values, unlike the PPP(?), so called adjusted GDP.

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> Of course, this will not be the case if you have anything to do with
> it - it seems that you would not work in an iron lung.

> > If you want
> >to diverge from the norm, you have to explain in more detail.

> 1: GDP is never measured in percentage.
> 2:What was being discussed was stated explicitly.
> 3:Your failures both in comprehension and writing are not a
> requirement for others to kow tow to your deviant ideas.

> >Because of your arrogant and racist attitude,

> Don't pretend that others suffer from your afflictions.

> > you can't even see
> >alternative meanings to phrases, and choose the best alternative based
> >on normal practise, which is the way honest people interpret.

> I see no signs of honesty, humility or comprehension from you.

> >Musa Aman is still lying.

> From the report, and your comments, it would seem that rather than
> Musa Aman being a liar, it is simply a case of you being too stupid
> and arrogant to comprehend an article written in simple English.

> With people like you in Sabah, it is no wonder that so little
> productivity occurs in the place, with the rest of Malaysia having to
> pay more taxes to subsidise stupid and incompetent people like you.

> At the moment, Sabah produces 6% of Malaysia's GDP, but gets 8% of
> government spending. You are getting subsidised with 33% more than

Wow. It may be 8% 6% of GDP, but certainly much more in revenue from
petroleum and oil palm that Sabah produces in abundance.

> you have produced, yet bemoan that you are being cheated. In fact,
> you are stealing from other Malaysians by being lazy and inefficient

Funnily, just before BN took over Sabah, Sabahan were not deemed lazy
and inefficient, with among the largest per capita GDP.
Why is it????

> and expecting others to pay you to be stupid, lazy and arrogant.

We don't expect others to pay for our salaries. We only want our
resources back, idiot.

If you look at the poverty statistics, it is not in the number of
developments, rather in the numbers of service personnel allocated to
SAbah, number of doctors, dentists, teachers etc.

Doctors are allocated by the Federal government. Also number of
schools, hospitals etc, all these making SAbah the POOREST IN THE
WHOLE WORLD!!!

Don't you think this will not add to the per capita annual GDP? I am
being very explicit to idiots like you!!!

What 6% GDP contribution are you talking about when our income taxes
are not even spent to improve our lives to a decent level, only to the
level of the POOREST IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!

Just spend all SABAH resources to ourselves. The GDP will
automatically go up and Sabah removed from the POOREST IN THE WORLD
category, like before.

Sabah has more resources now than before Malaysia or BN, and yet still
the POOREST IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!

Don't tell me you cannot find doctors to work in Sabah, as most
doctors are from Bangladesh, Myanmar etc anyway.

Why send them to West Malaysia instead of the POOREST IN THE WORLD,
SABAH!!! Bloody bastard idiot.

Sabah government knew Sabah was the poorest since 2002

http://www.sabah.gov.my/infosoc/ppt/UPEN%20(1).ppt

The above is a link to the documents prepared by Sabah's EPU.

Pictures can be viewed at my blog sabahcolonised

Lying about Sabah's economic performance and prospect

The current GDP for Sabah is 4%, not 6%.

The current GDP for Malaysia is 7% so West Malaysia should be around
10%.

If Sabah were to grow at 10% next year, a near impossibility, given no
commitment apart from empty promises, it is still the same as West
Malaysian's current rate of growth. With much more resources diverted
to WEst Malaysia, the situation will continue.

Just imagine, Sabah only getting 10% of the total natioinal budget,
with a population of 14% and area of 23%?

Will Sabah's GDP ever exceed that of West Malaysia that gets much more
of the national budget?
Never indeed. Just use your common sense.

Upbeat on Sabah's prospects

Published on: Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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Kota Kinabalu: Global publishing, research and consultancy firm,
Oxford Business Group (OBG), firmly believes Sabah has enormous
business and economic potential given what it has to offer investors.

So much so, it expects Sabah to increase its overall share in
Malaysia's GDP from six per cent to 10 per cent in the next five
years, saying it would grow faster than Peninsular Malaysia.

OBG Regional Director for Asia, Laura Herrero, said the book "The
Report: Sabah 2011" launched by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman on
Monday is testament to this.

"Not only we have done good business here, it has (also) been a
pleasure to work and interact with the people of Sabah at all levels,"
she said.

"So, foreign businessmen and investors, read this report; take note of
our example; follow our lead and come to Sabah," she said.

She said the rapidly evolving economy of Sabah holds out enormous
business and economic potential.

She said the book that was produced by OBG over a six-month period of
research is worthwhile for the people, foreign businessmen and
investors.

The report provides in-depth coverage of Sabah's Development Corridor
(SDC) blueprint and considers the interest that the long-term
development plan is generating among global investors.

The publication charts the wave of new projects which spans
agricultural infrastructure, transport, tourism and logistics, while
analysing the role they are set to play in Sabah's plans to become a
leading economic and investment hub by 2025.

Asia Regional Director for OBG, Paulius Kuncinas said Sabah is blessed
with natural beauty and resources that is key to attracting visitors
and investors alike.

"(Hence) it is worth stating at the outset that the reason our
Publishing Group decided to come here was because we discovered there
are attractive investment opportunities for both domestic and foreign
investors, some of which are overlooked by mainstream investors," he
said.

From OBG's research, he said Sabah is well positioned to benefit from
recent growth in Asean.

It is also well located in the Borneo region to attract Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) in the next 5-10 years, he said.

He said Oxford Business Group found there are a number of sectors
outside traditional tourism, agri-business and energy that could
benefit from greater involvement of private sector and investment.

The organisation feels the policy momentum created under the Tenth
Malaysia Plan (10MP) will fuel fresh interest form smart investors
looking to locate in the country's most progressive regions, with
Sabah offering the most compelling case.

"In terms of numbers, we think Sabah will increase its overall share
in Malaysia's GDP from six per cent to 10 per cent in the next five
years as it will grow faster than the more saturated Peninsular
Malaysia," he said.

According to him, growth in new service sectors would likely push
total GDP to USD$12 billion with an average annual growth of above
five per cent.

He said their analysts argued in the report that Sabah had the fortune
of being insulated from the great financial crisis thanks to its
resource-based sector that continued to enjoy financial strength and
solid balance sheets throughout the crisis.

However, Kuncinas said there would be challenges going forward such as
to reduce the dependence on commodities and tourism sectors, which
when combined continue to dominate economic activity in the State.

He said one of the key growth areas is likely to be service-related
sectors that offer support services to established plantations,
agriculture, energy and manufacturing industries.

"Even though the rise of commodity prices recently offer attractive
returns to local business, we found it very encouraging the State
managed to post 6.8 per cent growth in services which will help to
diversify the overall economic mix of Sabah's economy," he said.

To achieve sustainable growth and the advanced economy status included
in Malaysia's 2020 Vision, he said Sabah needs to focus on creating
alternative sources of growth by focusing its efforts on education,
research and innovation.

Just like other states in Malaysia, he said Sabah is in competition
for young talent that will determine its competitiveness in the
future.

He said retaining this talent within the State will be key to further
productivity growth and advancing the economy beyond natural
resources.

On the other hand, Kuncinas said Sabah's exports this year continue to
be dominated by palm oil, palm kernel oil, rubber, crude petroleum and
processed woods.

"We believe that these will continue to provide income momentum in the
next five to 10 years," he said.

Looking at the trade data, he said they found a high share of
processed fuels, lubricant and mineral, which accounted for 18.3 per
cent of the total this year.

He said there are still huge investment opportunities in the
downstream segments, especially in oil and gas sectors with Sabah in a
good position to become one of the leading downstream processing
centres in Borneo.

"We also see an upside in the logistics sector with Sabah well
positioned to cater for remote regions of East Asia with the Sapangar
Bay Container Port well placed to become one of the leading trans-
shipment centres in BIMP-EAGA," he said.

Supported by rising world palm oil consumption, Sabah's ports have
returned to full capacity after weathering the global economic crisis.

Nevertheless, he said one of the long term structural issues that will
need to be addressed is the Cabotage Policy and also the nation's hub-
and-spoke transport policy.

He said quite a number of businesses interviewed by the OGB said that
logistics operating costs in Sabah are higher than that in the
peninsula, which undermines the State's competitiveness.

However, he said that OBG was encouraged to learn that the State is
now addressing the vital issue of external and internal connectivity
through infrastructure upgrade investment.

Through the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) programme, he said the
government is implementing road and rail projects across the State
that will have substantial benefits for both movements of goods as
well as the tourism sector.

Kuncinas noted that Kota Kinabalu is already enjoying advanced air
connectivity with a high frequency in both domestic and international
flights.

"We are compiling investment opportunities in Sabah in our first ever
report and as we continue our coverage, we hope to provide more detail
and insight," he said.

But the best case scenario now, he said, is that Sabah's economy will
continue to outperform other Malaysian states with GDP per capita
increases helping to drive rural and urban development across the
entire State with new growth sectors coming on stream in the next 5-10
years.

Given its location and resources, he said Sabah is a natural choice
for many industries and a contender for the status of sub-regional
capital.

With effective implementation of the initiatives now under way, he
said it may be a prize soon captured by the Land Below the Wind.

Proof that BN disrespects and breaks the constitution

Why should only a private citizen sue the Barisan Nasional, Federal
Government? Why not any of the opposition parties?

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/19/courts/8300501&sec=courts

Saturday March 19, 2011
Court voids amendment on appointment of JCs

KOTA KINABALU: An amendment to the Constitution to take away the power
of appoin-ting judicial commissioners (JCs) by the heads of state of
Sabah and Sarawak has been declared null and void by the High Court
here.

Justice Datuk David Wong Dak Wah in his landmark judgment said the
1994 amendment to Article 122AB of the Constitution was invalid as it
did not have the consent of the two states.

He said the amendment affected the operation of the Constitution as it
removed the power of the appointment of JCs by the respective Yang di-
Pertua Negri of Sabah and Sara-wak.

Prior to the 1994 amendment, the appointment of JCs to the High Courts
of Sabah and Sarawak was done by the governors on the advice of the
Chief Judge of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak.

In allowing the suit brought by retired policeman Robert Linggi
against the Federal Government, Justice Wong also declared null and
void Section 37 of the Judicial Appointments Commission Act, which
empowers the Prime Minister to amend any provision of the Act by way
of a gazette.

However, he dismissed the claim by Linggi, who is from Keningau, that
the Judicial Appointments Commission Act (except for Section 37) was
unconstitutional.

In his suit filed on March 13, 2009, Linggi, who was represented by
Datuk Lawrence Thien, had among others, sought a declaration that the
removal of the power of appointment of JCs to the High Courts of Sabah
and Sarawak by the heads of the two states was null and void.

In his 39-page written judgment delivered on March 15 and made
available on Thursday, Justice Wong said Article 161E (2) prohibits
amendments to the Federal Constitution without the consent of the
governors "if the amendment is such as to affect the operation of the
(Federal) Constitution with regard to the constitution and
jurisdiction of the High Courts of Sabah and Sarawak."

The Government was represented by Senior Federal Counsels Suzana Atan
and Narkuna-vathy Sundereson.

On the contention by the Government that Linggi had no locus standi to
bring the suit, Justice Wong ruled that "all Malaysians have a duty to
protect our constitution."

Sabah, the poorest in the world has no starving people???

Sabah, being the poorest in the whole world, is not even told to
Malaysians, let alone the huge number of starving people in Sabah
being reported.

If Doni, committed suicide because his classmates laughed at him for
eating starvation level diet in the centre of a city, Kota Kinabalu,
with the most updated infrastructure in the poor state of Sabah,
getting a government subsidi, JUST IMAGINE the people in the remote
places, where statistics show the REAL POOR really ARE.

Kota Kinabalu is not listed as the poor areas in Sabah, and yet there
are many students living on starvation diet, rice with boiled kangkong
picked up from the drains. If you don't call that starvation diet, you
must be crazy.

Muhiddin must therefore be crazy if he thinks that eating just rice
everyday is not starvation diet. Many other people in Sabah, also eat
similar diet. You don't even have 1 US dollar per day because you are
unemployed. Unemployment is the highest in Sabah.

China and India are much richer than Sabah. Just imagine how come
nobody is ACKNOWLEDGED as living on starvation diet. BN is just a
bunch of liars manipulating statistics.

To make matters worse, Sabah has much more resources than China and
Indian combined together. How come SAbah can be the POOREST IN THE
WORLD???

Simple. NONE OF THE RESOURCES ARE FOR SABAH. All petroleum resources
go to Malaya via expensive gas pipelines costing BILLIIONS OF RM.

With a SO CALLED PROMISED 5%, but unaudited, it is more like much
less than 1%, or NEGLIGIBLE. Not even enough to cover maintenance of
the foreign workers employed for these gas pipelines and the
environmental loss that led to the poverty of the locals. Just use
your imagination to calculate how much is 150 RM million per year for
the past 30 years. Is it really 5%??? Price of petrol has gone up 1000
percent. It may have been 5% 30 years ago, after price and volume
increases, it is much less than 0.1% remaining. It had been increased
to 400 million, i.e. from 0.1% to 0.4%!!!!

In another 30 years it become 0.04%!!!!

If you don't believe, than explain why Sabah GDP grows 4%, while
Malaya grows 9%!!!!
Malaysia is 7%.. Malaysia includes Sabah so it pulls down Malaysian
overall GDP.

With MInisters like Muhidin that don't know that Kinabatangan is
BIGGER THAN PAHANG.
No wonder, they only give 20 million for Sabahan poor, the 3RD behind
Trengganu and Pahang.

And these are only for fishermen who are registered. If you have no
money, how can you even register??? tell me honestly. You still think
that there are no starving people in Sabah!!! Idiot.

Stop whining, poor Sabahans told
Charlie Rudai
| March 4, 2011

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has admitted that the
government is unable to do much for the landless and hardcore poor
mainly due to incompetence of its leaders.

TONGOD: Poor Sabahans should stop whinning and be satisfied with their
lot because the poverty situation in Sabah was not as bad as that
faced by citizens in China and India.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that since starvation did
not exist in Malaysia, there should be no complaints about the poverty
situation in the state.

Drawing comparisons with countries like China, India and other
developed countries, he said that unlike others there had been no
reports of people dying of starvation in Malaysia.

He said that in some countries the poverty issue was so critical that
some of the people there were earning about one dollar a day and
coping with the issue of starvation unlike Malaysia.

Last year, the World Bank Report revealed Sabah to be the poorest
state in Malaysia. According to the report, 40% of Malaysia's poor
were centred in Sabah, which incidentally is an oil and gas hub. The
state government, however, has vehemently disputed the categorisation.

Muhyiddin also made a staggering revelation that the Barisan Nasional
(BN) government has been unable to do much for the landless and
hardcore poor in the country mainly due to incompetence of its
leaders.

He took a swipe at ruling party political leaders for not doing their
jobs and not articulating the problems they faced.

Citing Kinabatangan, he said he had been ignorant until now that the
constituency is much bigger than Pahang, and was shocked to know that
Tongod itself was bigger than Selangor.

Muhyiddin claimed it was not easy to bring development to Sabah until
political leaders went down to the ground to study and understand the
needs of the people.

Infrastructure projects

He sees the whole problem of poverty eradication and development as an
infrastructure issue.

"So how to bring development to Sabah and Sarawak? … the only way is
to provide better infrastructure.

"In this respect, Sabah and Sarawak get the priority from the federal
government… millions of ringgit are being poured in to implement
infrastructure projects.

"I monitor every month and listen to the ministers during meetings,"
he said, adding that under the 10th Malaysia Plan, RM320 million had
been approved for various projects in the Kinabatangan parliamentary
constituency alone.

However, he said that the government would give out funds according to
priority and not all at once to prevent bankrupting the country.

"It is like in a family: when you give a present to one child, the
other children also want it but a family with a small income would not
be able to do so.

"Similarly, the nation will go bankrupt if it fulfils the demands of
all the people," he said.

Muhyiddin assured that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was focused on
the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) to propel the country to a high-
income nation by improving the economy and living standards of the
people.

"Our prime minister is focused and as his deputy, I sit with him every
week in various economic development meetings," he said, adding that
last year Malaysia had achieved a 7.2% growth, which not many country
could claim.

Communal land titles

He also defended the BN's record on poverty eradication, saying the BN
government had made extraordinary achievements as far as reducing and
eradicating poverty in the country is concerned compared to pre-
independence days when the poverty rate was 98%.

In an almost election-like campaign speech at the Kampung Simpang
Entilibon field here yesterday, he claimed the BN never stopped
thinking about how to bring development to the people and lauded Chief
Minister Musa Aman for granting communal land titles to the landless
and distributing dividend payments to the hardcore poor.

"Ask any other states (in Malaysia) or in other countries if they are
doing what the Sabah state government is doing… none.

"The BN government realises that the people still yearn for
development," he said.

Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said he was briefed on the
poor education situation in Sabah schools.

"It was supposed to be a 20-minute briefing but it went on for more
than an hour and I said last night that if it cannot be solved, then
we should form a committee so that the education facilities in Sabah
are not only at par with the rest of the country but are also better,"
he said.