{"id":3304,"date":"2012-12-15T18:25:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T10:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2012-12-15T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T10:25:46","slug":"najib-must-act-on-barisan-nasional-land-grab-in-selangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/najib-must-act-on-barisan-nasional-land-grab-in-selangor\/","title":{"rendered":"Najib Must Act on Barisan Nasional land grab in Selangor"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lim Guan Eng<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It did not come as a shock to anybody when DAP State Assemblyman for Sekinchan, Ng Swee Lim exposed that Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties secured at least 24 pieces of valuable land from the state government while they were in power between 2000 to 2008.\u00a0 These pieces of land which are mostly in commercial areas, amounting to 34.5 acres were \u201csold\u201d to UMNO, MCA, MIC and Gerakan for a pitiful RM1 per square feet.<\/p>\n

What is perhaps more surprising is that such information was somehow kept under wraps for such a long time after they lost their hold on power.<\/div>\n
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But what is most shocking is the response by Selangor UMNO Information Chief Abdul Shukor Idrus, who is also the state assemblyman for Kuang who argued that \u201cwhat\u2019s wrong with giving the land to UMNO\u201d as reward for the \u201ccontributions by UMNO in fighting for indepedence and developing this country\u201d.<\/div>\n
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His response to Ng during the sitting as recorded in the Hansard was \u201c\u2026Kalau dipandangkan jasa UMNO menuntut kemerdekaan dan akhirnya Sekinchan (Ng) boleh jadi lawa macam ni, kalau tak kerana UMNO menuntut kemerdekaan dan memajukan negari ini, saya ingat Sekinchan (Ng) pakai baju daun sekarang ini\u2026 apa halnya kalau diberi kepada UMNO\u201d<\/div>\n
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Abdul Shukor attempted to control the fallout with a press conference yesterday (Wednesday), only to dig a deeper hole for UMNO and himself.\u00a0 He tried to justify that \u201cUMNO is rakyat\u201d and hence there\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong in giving state land to an \u201corganisation that represents 400,000 people\u201d.<\/div>\n
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The above proves that despite all attempts at \u201ctransforming\u201d UMNO and Barisan Nasional to be \u201cpeople first\u201d, and all the rhetoric on accountability and integrity under the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak\u2019s Government Transformation Programme, UMNO leaders still regard the tax-payers\u2019 monies as their own.\u00a0 After all \u201cUMNO is rakyat\u201d and hence there is nothing wrong with UMNO robbing what belongs to the rakyat.<\/div>\n
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UMNO and Barisan Nasional leaders clearly has no moral sense of right and wrong, and are completely uneducated in the ability to differentiate between what belongs to the government\/people as opposed to what belongs to the political parties.<\/div>\n
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The response by UMNO leaders tells Selangorians that if UMNO were to be elected back into power in the coming general election, then they will continue to rape the state by carving out valuable pieces of state land to be alienated to UMNO, MCA, MIC and Gerakan at dirt cheap prices.<\/div>\n
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Datuk Seri Najib Razak, as the Selangor UMNO Chief who had declared that Selangor must be \u201creturned\u201d to BN \u201cat all costs\u201d must state his stand on the land grab by the coalition he leads.\u00a0 Does the Prime Minister also condone the land grab exercises and agree with his Selangor UMNO Information Chief?\u00a0 Or does Datuk Seri Najib hold the \u201ctransformed\u201d belief that such blatant land grab by BN is corrupt, an abuse of power and a serious breach of the people\u2019s trust?<\/div>\n
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If Datuk Seri Najib wants Malaysians to believe that BN has really \u201ctransformed\u201d and can be trusted, then he must declare that such land grab exercises by BN component parties must not only be banned, all land that has previously been alienated to them on the cheap, must be returned to the state.<\/div>\n
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Otherwise, Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be exposed as a \u201ctransformation\u201d fraud \u2013 where it talks about integrity, transparency and accountability on the one hand but continues to allow his party and coalition to rob the rakyat blind on the other. -The Rocket<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Lim Guan Eng It did not come as a shock to anybody when DAP State Assemblyman for Sekinchan, Ng Swee Lim exposed that Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties secured at least 24 pieces of valuable land from the state government while they were in power between 2000 to 2008.\u00a0 These pieces of land which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}