Sabah parties not supporting present PM does not mean that they’re not supporting BN or that they support Anwar & Pakatan Rakyat. This means the Yang di Pertuan Agong could appoint Najib as next in line commanding majority in Parliament to be PM leading the UMNO/BN government. There is no change (except present PM out) which may even be for the worse.

That way, it is the Agong who summons the PM and the leader of the opposition to discuss who commands the majority of the house and appoints the new PM; unless the present PM can convince him that new elections should be called.

It is then left to the Agong to decide in his wisdom if elections are needed or the MPs be allowed to pick the next PM of Malaysia.

I am from Penang but my wife is from Tuaran. I 100% agree that the road to K.Marudu after K.Belud is in deep shit condition. I say so because I frequently drive to Kudat.
You may not feel the bumpy ride bcos you got a driver and a big Benz
and I forgot you are so sound asleep in the car. Wake up lah.

Hey, i am full time, not part time. Didn’t we see fewer postings from you lately.

Most of UMNOputras are corrupted and their interest in politics is to enrich themselves only, no wonder they failed miserably explaining the meaning of social contract to the new generation. Perhaps, UMNOputras can explain how they get rich so fast by joining politics, and see if the new generation can understand it.

KOTA MARUDU: Youth and farmers of Kota Marudu will get a taste of the World Wide Web in November when the town gets its own wireless Internet.
Kota Marudu member of parliament Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili said the service, to be provided by Mimos Berhad, would initially be free for the town’s residents.

Ongkili, who is also science, technology and innovation minister, said that the Federal Government had allocated RM6 million for the development of cottage industries, including in the field of information technology under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.

Some of the industries included the processing of “tongkat ali”, virgin coconut oil and vanilla.

He also said that under the Sabah Development Corridor, the town would also be a centre for large scale padi planting, making it a major rice-producing area in Sabah. — Bernama

Having worked in Kota Marudu as a government medical officer has shown me how lucky I am. I am lucky to be educated. I am lucky that I have access to information. I am lucky to have a stable job that pays. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about many of the financially poor people who live in the remote areas of Kota Marudu.

I give an example of a housewife, whom we shall refer to as Mrs P, who came to me at 38 weeks of her sixth pregnancy. She is from Paitan, a remote district in Sabah. Kota Marudu is the nearest township that could provide obstetric assessment for her pregnancy. At the 38 weeks of pregnancy, that was the first time that she could afford to seek medical attention. Mothers should be seen in the first trimester of pregnancy. Mrs P was in the final trimester of her pregnancy.

Mrs P was at term and she had never been seen by a doctor. She had three living children. Two died full term at birth. Mrs P delivered all her children, she delivered the placenta and she even cut the umbilical cords. All on her own. The nearest midwife (non-medically trained) requires a thirty minute walk from her home. There are no medically trained midewives near her area of residence.

Mrs. P’s husband works at a small farm, earning RM50 a month while some of us have RM50 lunches. RM 50 for a family of five when many of us can afford to don RM250 shirts. In Kota Marudu and many districts in Sabah, transportation is a serious and material obstacle, preventing the people from gaining medical access. It is not made any easier for these people when the local private transportation ‘service’ charge these financially poor people exorbitant fees for a ride to the nearest township (where a medical facility should be present). Mrs P came all the way from Paitan with the whole family, having to pay RM50 for each member of the family. She is not the independent city woman who can drive herself to the nearest clinic. She is not the independent bourgeosie who can travel in unfamiliar territory without her husband. She is the lady from the village who does not how to read or write. She is the lady who totally depends on her husband. Her husband who earns RM50 a month.

Mrs P and her family are a part of the many residents of Kota Marudu who are subjected to such paucity. The people’s predicament does not stop at exorbitant travel fees. We have not even discussed the problems faced with road access. We have villages in Kota Marudu with roads that cannot be accessed during rainy seasons. Transportation is extremely important in assisting this country’s medical services. When sick people cannot travel due to distance, inaccessible roads or lack of financial funds for them to travel, this would delay their access to medical services. This would in turn cause them to continue to deteriorate in their sickness in the village and by the time they reach the nearest hospital, there is nothing much that the doctors can do. This is very true for patients from the district of Kota Marudu. If we are able to manage the problem at it’s roots (and since the government continuously reminds the people the need for austerity, in the health sector included) the country will be able to cut medical costs in so many ways. An example is antibiotic usage, the more critically ill the patient is, the more likely that the patient will need stronger antibiotics which is obviously more expensive. The more critically ill the patients are, the more likely that they will need intensive care support, which may include mechanical ventilation.

The education of the people of Kota Marudu would make them more aware of their need for medical services. There is no doubt that the wireless internet service in Kota Marudu would benefit the students, teachers, lawyers, government staff who live in the town of Kota Marudu. But, it appears that in our system, be it in health, education, transportation, tend to target and benefit the people who already have access to modern facilites. Why can’t we build the society as a whole? What are we doing for the people of Kota Marudu who do not live in the town and other people of this country who live in remote areas? We have 16 year old school drop outs who are mothers of two and pregnant with their third child. We have a real problem of illiteracy in Kota Marudu. Do you blame these people for being ignorant of their rights as a citizen of this country when they don’t even have access to the right of education? Knowledge is power, and I believe the people of Malaysia have begun to realize this. Are we, those who are more fortunate and educated, going to remain ignorant about the existence of these people?

It has been 45 years since the formation of Malaysia and the fundamental rights of the citizens have not been addressed properly. It is embarrassing and a failure of this country to have these conditions exist. We should stop trying to break records by baking the biggest karipap and whatnot. We should stop people from constructing the national flag from dried chillies and sago and then complain about food shortage. We should stop sending people on travels to infinity and beyond when the people of Kota Marudu, the people here on earth are dying of tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. We talk about wireless internet service, but, there are far more important issues to deal with. Our first world facilities do not compensate for the sufferring of the people.

I thought leprosy has already been eradicated entirely? There are still people suffering from it under BN rule?

“Critics too have a point when they say that you won’t find the term “Malay rights” in the supreme law of our land.” – Zak

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YO! BEEVER read this…

The Constitution does not explicitly refer to a “social contract” (in terms of citizenship rights and privileges), and no act of law or document has ever fully set out the social contract’s terms. Its defenders often refer to the Constitution as setting out the social contract, and the Malaysian founding fathers having agreed to it, although no reference to a “social contract” appears in the Constitution.

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Zak Says:
“This is the aspect of the contract that UMNOputras have failed miserably to explain to the new generation.”

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I really pity and feel soar / angry for those who still believe in bn. for MO and other bn mps, of course life is good for them becuase they ate away all the cakes that is supposed to be shared for the rakyat. even the bones they want too.

the reasons why some voters went for bn in the last general election are :
1) maybe due to lack of info
2) bn controls of media to only relate their good & promises deeds while threatening of no hopes of development or life-style improvement if vote for oppositions
3) getting the voters and reward them with cash and using PTI to go to centres to vote on behalf (as has done in permatang pauh elections)
4) questionable postal votes which can also be ‘phantom votes’
5) doubtful of election committee and police as an independant entity ( bn even now want to rule hospital)

if there are voters who oppose bn idealogy of life and development plans right now, i hope they make more efforts to raise noises ‘mouth to ear’ to clean up and try to convince these bn supporters to make the bold move for a better life in malaysia. After all, we are Malaysians and we are entitled to these equal benefits just as the MP are having!!

Zak_hammaad…you’re right..that’s what I meant..thanks for explaining

This is an example of what Umnoputras and their BN politicians are good at: “Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what you can korek-korek-korek from your country” instead of “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”.

Wonder if people in Sabah korek deep deep into various land and business deals, can they tell us what this Maximus had korek maximally for himself over the years?

But as a technologist, I believe its an eventuality. Imagine if they have wireless high speed broadband in these areas. If you put a laptop in one of these areas, the entire community will come around it and be educated.

In the last election, what happened on the internet was multiplied in mamak stalls a few times. It may take time for the phenomenon to seep into the communities of Kota Marudu but it always happen faster than political dinosaurs like BN think. Take a 3G phone and the speeches of Anwar can be shown again and again even in Kota Marudu.

Those current BN MPs who don’t see that their political career is not going to go anywhere pretty much deserves being hit hard when it ends…

Najib. You really look stupid with the apology you made. By the same sweep of the broom, UMNO too has been made to look stupid.

Najib. You have been named as the next PM. This incident definitely does not tango well with your status and image as the next-PM. Arent you, the next-PM, going to do something about it? Arent you, the next-PM, going to do anything to that chap? And you umno too. Taking body blow to your already badly wrecked image and still not doing anything?

Can we conclude that despite your stupidity in having apologised, Najib you actually condoned Ahmad’s racist remark; and that umno you actually sanctioned that remark and cannot now retract your position?

Arrogance has made you and umno blind and insensitive and worse, has consigned you and umno to the confine of political irrelevance.

Koh Tsu Khoon was correct with his rather polite observation that BN could be reaching the point of no return. In fact to my mind, umno is already on the other bank of rubicon. And the bridge for the crossing, despite costly repair works, had collapsed by reason of sub-standard construction, low quality material, poor supervision, bad design and corruption.

Not such a bad thing actually.

Not bad at all.