Before the project even got of the ground, Sarawak Barisan Nasional is beginning to treat the funds as their own.
Since its announcement, like an expert and only authority in NCR Land Righst, our ever inefficient Afraid Jabu went to town telling all and sundry that only “Matured NCR Land” will be surveyed. He went on to further disclose to Malaysiakini that “Only NCR Land with Potential” will be surveyed! How we wish one way, we have him take the stand in Court to testify and see whether he will make a fool of himself like MACC’s lawyer Abdul Razak Musa.
As if that is not enough, additional conditions were attached to the survey of NCR Land when Member of Parliment for Lubok Antu William Nyalau Badak at the ‘leader-meet-people’ programme held at Rumah Baba, Nanga Kapu, Lemanak, Lubok Antu, NCR Land Owners were advised to accept the “Government’s Offer to Develop NCR Land” with the following promise:
The people would also benefit indirectly as their NCR land would be surveyed by the government.
That land development projects would facilitate the implementation of infrastructure facilities in their areas.
and
Make sure that the companies intending to take part in the land development projects are registered with the Ministry of Land Development.
As if that is not enough to show their high handed way of dealing with the poor Dayaks, we now have an Assistant Minister of Planning and Resource Management Mohd Naroden Majais, telling Natives only request for NCR Land made through BN Representatives will be surveyed.
Sarawak Barisan Nasional Leaders certainly learn West Malaysian Style Politics fast and are certainly looking to be good boys of PM Najib as they seem to Politically Blackmail the rakyat.
Remember the now famous UMNO-Barisan Nasional Battle cry with the non-Malays, “Gua Tolong Lu. Lu Tolong Gua”.
The first to follow up with Political Blackmail is SUPP President, George Chan who have decreed that Sarawak State Government will only entertain “Request of Land Lease Renewal Premium” already paid in prior years only if they are submitted through SUPP. If SUPP have the numbers of UMNO, I believe, George Chan will go on and add “Only SUPP Members” will be entertained!.
While this is Political Blackmail, it is high time, Sarawakians of whatever races rise and start telling this morons to go take a hike. We are not beggars. We are not here to serve this morons interest. Instead, we should tell this morons, if you can not serve, we will vote you out. And this is a must do thing to Save Sarawakians from further oppression.
NCR land surveys: S’wak minister gets ticking off
PKR Sarawak chief Baru Bian today slammed the state’s Assistant Minister of Planning and Resource Management, Mohd Naroden Majais, for saying that natives can get their land surveyed only if they go through BN elected representatives.
“This is politicking. It is nonsense and very irresponsible of him to say that. If (the government) is really sincere about helping the natives, this will not be an issue,” Baru said when contacted.
Naroden had said on Tuesday that the government could not act if requests for land surveys, for the purpose of native customary rights (NCR) claims, were made via opposition elected representatives
Baru (left), who has spent many years defending native customary rights land as a lawyer, said the minister’s statement showed how little he knew about the mechanics of NCR land.
“It is the government’s duty to conduct land surveys under section 18 of the Sarawak Land Code,” he said.
“If there is sufficient evidence of ownership, the government should issue the land titles, but it has been trotting out excuse after excuse.”
The Sarawak government had previously claimed that the Land and Survey Department cannot undertake the survey work involved in the issue of land titles because of the lack of funds.
To address this, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak announced that RM20 million of the federal budget will be allocated for this purpose.
Shortchanging the natives
However, this announcement failed to impress Baru, whose experience in dealing with NCR issues led him to suggest that the move “is just rhetoric”.
“I have the feeling that they don’t want to conduct the surveys because they are afraid that the whole of Sarawak belongs to the natives,” he said.
Even if surveys were conducted, said the Orang Ulu lawyer, the natives would likely be shortchanged.
Surveys could only take into account the land which the longhouses sit, he said, and several cases in Sibu were testimony to this.
There was also the case of the natives forced to move out to make way for the Bakun hydroelectric dam.
“That land is not disputed. What is disputed is the land five to 10km from the longhouses, the farmland on which the natives survive on, but is likely to have been given away to someone else,” he said.
At present, Sarawak natives are embroiled in multiple legal disputes over what they claim to be their NCR land.
This has, however, been challenged by private companies with provisional leases issued by the state government.
In some cases, the natives have been assaulted or charged with trespass when they tried to defend their land.
Malaysiakini
