Save Malaysia Association for next generation

Save Malaysia Association for the next generation.

What kind of New Year message for 2017 from the Chief Minister?

In the two well read and well circulated newspapers in Sabah, such headings as “Let’s focus on developing Sabah – CM”, Set aside political differences, urges CM and “Help govt transform nation, sabahans told” are likely world apart in the ground.

Are we more concerned on developing Sabah or the nation?  So my apolitical letters have been helping to transform nation positively.

 

Do Sabahans really know what to do to develop Sabah or transform the nation? So most think political avenue is part and parcel to help the State and nation towards some sanity.

 

As far as Sabahans are concerned it is the daily drudge of putting food on the table for the families and under secure houses and places within local context and the state’s environment security.

 

There are enough of too tough daily challenges around us even to move around the city within and without the Central Business District with the massive traffic jams  from both ends of Kota Kinabalu namely from Kudat, Kota Marudu, Kota Belud, Tuaran and Beaufort, Kimanis, Papar, Kinarut and Putatan plus Penampang.

 

Such massive traffic jams both in the mornings and evenings plus lunch peak hours or even any time in the City are too costly in term of time and costs of mobility to be productive and so unless we tackle such scenario for years with some good solutions, how can anyone have any energy left to focus on developing Sabah or remotely possible to help to transform the nation? 

 

Only yesterday, I had to come back to Kota Kinabalu from mile 16 Tuaran Road after spending almost two hours in the lunch hours on the roads almost doing nothing productive. All the way, there were no accidents except that the roads are somehow clogged up.  If we add up all the hours most people spend on the roads burning up expensive fuel unnecessary, we are heading to something into futility.  

 

So we need to ponder deep and sound as how to develop Sabah when moving around Kota Kinabalu is too much of a burden especially with the “exodus” of people running scared from the Esszone.

 

Even Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) has come up with two master plans namely the Kota Kinabalu Public Transport Master Plan and the Traffic Improvement and Urban Transport Master Plan for Kota Kinabalu Central Business District (CBD) for liveable city in 2022.

            One of the reasons for the congestion apart from the massive number of vehicles (most mobile lacking public transport) on the roads- narrow and poorly built including flooded roads- are the “old fashion” traffic lights which are not co-ordinated with the flows of the traffic in all directions, when green light still on when there were no approaching traffic.  Have we installed “old fashion” traffic lights when we could have paid for the state-of-art systems equipped with the sensors to assist/cope with the changing approaching traffic to minimise queues.

 

Now we understand that there are cameras at most traffic lights junctions and hopefully such cameras can also serve the purpose of identifying queues at such junctions to enable research on improving the efficient movement.

 

The Chief Minister also urges emphasis on tourism, agriculture and manufacturing which unlike oil and gas are strictly within the State’s responsibility but have we performed any better when our infrastructure around Sabah is clearly lacking? The capacity of tourism, agriculture and manufacturing is very much dependent on good infrastructure all round.  Even the single carriage to the famous Tip of Borneo is loaded with potholes which you may not feel if you travel in luxurious and expensive vehicles which just run over them effortless.

 

We have been told of the Sabah Development Corridor getting much investment such as billions of Ringgit of deals but such impact is hardly felt within Sabah.  Where is the money as it is mentioned in the DBKK’s master plans still subject to the Federal funding?  So is the SDC performance properly monitored?  Maybe such SDC deals have contributed more damages in several aspects to Sabah than the upliftment of the livelihood of people.

 

In the same message, the CM reminded us of the sovereignty and the security in all aspects in Sabah and the nation with reference to the “secession” of Sabah (internal) without the external reference of the renewed claim of Sabah by the new President of Phillipines and the increasing number of questioned Pakistanis found in most areas in Sabah.

 

CM also reminded the people against harbouring illegal immigrants and to be responsibile by reporting suspicious activities in their vicinity, but we have yet to see the expected action following the much questioned Royal Commission of Inquiry on the illegal immigrants Sabah (RCI  IIS) urged since early 1980s and concluded in 2012 to 4^th December, 2014 with the release of the questioned Report on RCIIIS.  Isn’t it that some leaders dragging their feet on the appropriate action on RCIIIS actually harbouring illegal immigrants especially those few millions of alleged Project IC holders albeit denied/silent in the said Report?  There maybe some and inconsistent sort of deportation of illegal immigrants but too little and too late when Sabah‘s demographic scenario is indeed explosive and infiltrated by such people so much  so inevitably weighing down much on the sovereignty and security of Sabah vis-à-vis the nation.

 

If we want to compare our action or even intention with what Trump, Presidient Elect of USA over illegal, we in Malaysia must do much more in sincerity and justice for the genuine locals at the mercy of the alien people for decades.

 

We may regret too late in two scenarios after trying so hard to develop Sabah albeit distorted at large that Sabahans may end up very frustrated when the demographic movement means we end up in total loss in a foreign nation one day we wake up unless we act on what we say we want to do. No more lips service.  The other scenario could be very expensive when the maintenance of security can be demoralising and tumultuous.

 

So it is timely we initiate a SAVE Malaysia Association with concerted effort.

 

 

Joshua Y C Kong 5^th January, 2017.