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PAS : KE ARAH PEMERINTAHAN ISLAM YANG ADIL
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Wow...
Cekap sungguh pemimpin BN/UMNO nih memerintah. Setiap penggal,
menimbun-nimbun hutang kerajaan BN/UMNO nih.
Wow...hebat-hebat. Sungguh cekap dan efisien.
Wow...wau...wau bulan...
.........
....Artikel dalam mahafiraun.com:
A Mentri Besar Flexes His Muscles
The mentri besar of Pahang, Dato' Seri Adnan Yaakob, often has choice
epithets, backed with physical signs, for his political opponents,
especially in PAS. He is abrasive, brash, foul-mouthed as occasion demands,
and, in UMNO's view, a good man to have on its side, when such occasions can
grab headlines. But a boor apart, he is also a shrewd politician. Few
thought he could carve a political constituency of his own, succeeding a man
who in eleven years personified the state and UMNO in it. But he has. He
distances himself from the man he succeeded, Tan Sri Khalil Yaacob, now the
UMNO secretary-general and information minister. First, he demanded that he
be made the state UMNO liaison chief, a post traditionally held by the
mentri besar. When UMNO dragged his feet, he threatened to resign and force
a by-election. Tan Sri Khalid resigned, he took over. He now blames Tan Sri
Khalid for the state's indebtedness, and says, in public, that that means
development in the state must take a backseat.
Malaysia's National Front mentris besar are known not for their leadership
but longevity in office. The last UMNO mentri besar of Trengganu celebrated
his quarter of a century in office when PAS formed the state administration
after the November 1999 general elections. The mentri besar of Negri
Sembilan is about to mark his second decade in office. Tan Sri Khalid held
office for eleven years. They hold office at the UMNO president's, not the
state assembly's, pleasure. In Johore, a scandal involving the mentri besar
and two separate amounts of RM500 million each makes his continuance in
office questionable. This holds true in the only state that a non-UMNO
leader holds office: Penang, which since 1957 had had only three chief
ministers. They remain in office, as in Trengganu, despite internal calls
for change that they often can be removed only when the ground rebels.
Despite the government's claim that it provides stability, all it does is
encourage corruption, wild spending, image-building, arrogance, an inbuilt
confidence in its leaders in inverse proportion to how the public perceives
it. Dato' Seri Adnan's plaint is the first public attack from the inside of
how the National Front controlled states are governed.
In Pahang, Dato' Seri Adnan concentrates his attacks on how his predecessor
left him with an empty treasury and huge debts which it cannot repay. Some
of these are: The RM2 billion "comfort" Pahang gave the banks for loans to
the failed MECCity electronic project; the state's RM700 million in bank
loans; The Kemajuan Pertanian Pahang's indebtedness for RM800 million; the
hundreds of millions of ringgit losses of the Pahang state economic
development corporation and of other state bodies; the losses incurred from
timber by the Amanah Saham Pahang; and other sundry indebted ness. The state
assembly is as usual kept in the dark about all this, and other state
financial commitments. But what happened in Pahang is by no means unusual.
When checks and balances are considered an impediment, when the legislative
is denied from querying the working of government, when arrogance places
leaders out of criticism, when a leader's word is enough to pour tens,
hundreds, of millions of ringgit into a project, such losses do not
surprise. Not just in Pahang, but in every state of Malaysia and indeed of
the federal government itself. The parliamentary and state assembly public
account committees fail miserably when it ignores these lapses.
The federal administration ignores them, now wants to restrain the PAS-led
administration from the RM800 million in petroleum royalties it is entitled
to. Which it cannot. The royalty agreement between Petronas and Trengganu
were signed in 1973 between the Petronas chairman, one Tengku Razaleigh
Hamzah, and the then mentri besar, Tan Sri Wan Mokhtar Ahmad. That it is
Petronas, not the federal government, which signed the contract is in no
doubt. The Trengganu government have declassified these documents, make them
readily available; the PAS organ, Hakarah website --
http://www.harakahdaily.com -- carries them. But Tengku Razaleigh is not one
the UMNO leaders would want as an ally, not when he remains one who they
would rather hope would disappear into thin air. The National Front leaders
now insist this agreement is invalid, after nearly three decades, and Kuala
Lumpur will henceforth decide how this royalty funds are disbursed. Since
this sum represents about 80 per cent of state revenues, this would reduce
the state to penury and indebtness. But in its calculations, Kuala Lumpur
ignores the intense nationalism in these two former Thai provinces against
the distant capital -- once it was Bangkok, now it is Kuala Lumpur. In
Trengganu, even UMNO stalwarts agree Kuala Lumpur is wrong, mean, petty. It
ensures UMNO's virtual disappearance, as in Kelantan.
More serious is the incipient state revolt about federal control. The state
mentris besar and chief ministers are anguished over this federal
shenanigans in Trengganu. One wanted to know if oil is discovered off his
state, federal government would decide how the royalty would be spent. The
federal move strengthens state nationalism, a reversion to status quo ante
1955. The state UMNO leaders must go along or be swept aside by other
parties prepared to protect state rights against Kuala Lumpur's
constitutional encroachments. Dato' Seri Adnan Yaakob saw the writing on the
wall earlier than the others. He is not alone. In every state, this federal
intrusion encourages the still-incipient state nationalism. As the Pahang
mentri besar showed, to remain in office one must show one can challenge the
federal authorities. The UMNO vice-president, Tan Sri Mohamed Taib, is right
back in centre stage, after his brush with the Australian customs following
the unexplained appearance of RM2.4 million in his suitcase.
M.G.G. Pillai
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