To ensure this is done systematically, PM Najib must ensure a committee to oversea this survey must not be entrusted into the sole care of Land and Survey Department.
We suggest they rope in the assistance of Dayak NGO such as SADIA and BRISMAS to ensure impartiality of the survey team.
Failing which the very reason the will power to survey all NCR Lands and have it gazzetted have been delayed till PM Najib see the real need for it to be done for Barisan Nasional to remain in power will end up as just retheoric and the allocation of RM20 million of tax payers money wasted.
Subsequent to the announcement by PM Najib, we have hypocrites coming up with the new land policy by Thief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and the Deputy Thief Minister Alfred Jabu. Read all about it here. Incidently Thief Minister Abdul Taib and all his cronys are the very same gang of thiefs and bandits resisting the call by Dayaks and Dayaks NGO to have all NCR Land surveyed!
Similar to the reduction of Land Lease Renewable announced in Sibu, is not too late to implement the survey of NCR Land now that educated and more aware Dayaks are arousing the awareness of the rural Dayaks? Will this now see the day of the light?
KUCHING: It took 47 years for the government to decide to survey native customary rights (NCR) land, issue titles and return the land to the rightful owners. Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak allocated RM20 million to carry out the survey works.
Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud should have made the announcement instead of Najib as land matters come under the purview of the state. So, why did Najib make the announcement? And why did Taib refuse all this while to survey NCR land?
Najib made the decision last week after visiting Long Banga, Baram, an interior seldom visited even by Sarawak state ministers. He must have heard about the Dayaks’ grouses after he took over as prime minister last year. To learn more about their problems, he sent his Sarawakian minister Idris Jala to seek the truth. And based on Jala’s reports, Najib announced the decision.
It not only caught state government leaders by surprise, it also embarrassed them. But Najib does not seem to care; his federal government’s survival depends on solving the problem. To continue to occupy Putrajaya, he must win over the Dayak-majority parliamentary constituencies. There are 23 Dayak majority and Dayak-mixed constituencies.
The decision puts great pressure on the state government to survey the NCR land. It must show support and react immediately.Thus, the state government issued a press statement not only to concur with the prime minister’s announcement but also to say that Taib’s government has approved a new NCR land initiative.
By Joseph Tawie @ Free Malaysia Today
