KUCHING, Aug 1: Santubong MP Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar urges Sarawak Pakatan Harapan (PH) Chief Chong Chieng Jen to be a Sarawakian again.
“I urge YB Chong to become Sarawakian again and not to be influenced by power and position and start fighting to protect Sarawak’s rights rather than running down the Sarawak government and the local base parties like Gabungan Party Sarawak (GPS),” said Wan Junaidi.
He said Chong who is also Deputy Minister for Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs has been trying his best to destroy GPS so that Chong can give the power and authority to govern Sarawak to the Malaya-based parties like his DAP and the rest of the PH.
“After that his big bosses like (Finance Minister) Lim Guan Eng will get access to the Sarawak’s reserve of RM31 billion and billion worth of Sarawak assets and natural resources.
“The only shield that we Sarawak have from being destroyed by the Malaya-based PH is GPS now.
“We know that many Sarawak NGOs who love Sarawak are not willing to see Sarawak being rob of its assets and rights by these people from PH, and these NGOs are with us.
“Yet the people like YB Chong is trying his best to spin the untruth so that PH can win Sarawak,” said Wan Junaidi when commenting on Chong’s statement that GPS was part of the ‘unholy union” of UMNO and PAS.
Wan Junaidi stressed that to make allegation that GPS was the “third leg in the unholy union between the UMNO and PAS” was part of the Chong’s “politics of fear, racism and defamation”.
“GPS left BN (Barisan Nasional) so that we can be on our own without referring to Malaya how we fight for the Sarawak rights within the Federal Constitution and the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
“It’s completely false allegation and untruth in it (Chong’s allegation). For long long time PAS and DAP shared the platform of opposition in Parliament to fight against BN from 1990 through to 2017, we never called that ‘unholy union’.
“We know what DAP said against Tun M (Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad) in the 1990s and before Tun M retired in 2003.
“They are all in the Hansard. Why are they together now in spite of what DAP leaders had said. What kind of union is that?” Wan Junaidi asked.
Citing the example of the the amendment of Article 1(2) of the Constitution, Wan Junaidi said Chong, as a lawyer knew the implication of passing the amendment – that such changes would not made Sarawak an equal partner to Malaya.
“Chong knows that by putting Sarawak and Sabah in group (2) or (b) in the Constitution does not constitute an equal partner.
“If he does not understand it, I would suggest YB Chong consult a good lawyer. The original Article 1(2) of the constitution, dated 1963, simply reflected the states of Malaya in (a) and the States of Borneo i.e Sarawak and Sabah in (b). Nothing more. That is the way International treaty, convention or agreement usually put in their documents.
“That was the reason why GPS wanted the “.. pursuant to Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63)..” be inserted in the amendment. So that Article 1(2) of the Constitution would reflect the spirit of MA63 in the Federal Constitution.
“At the moment there is no mention of MA 63 in the Federal Constitution, let alone giving equal partnership. Any lawyer who read the Federal Constitution would tell you that,” said Wan Junaidi. — DayakDaily
