Hamzah Nazari
The Rakyat Post
Dec 6, 2014

Malays have now acquired a new sense of political awareness. And it’s causing alarm bells within the Umno establishment, said Raub MP Datuk Mohamad Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. — TRP file pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6, 2014: Vocal Raub MP Datuk Mohamad Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz has, in his blog Sakmongkol AK47, questioned the Umno political party’s role as a guardian of ethnic Malays.

“That idea, dear readers, is a blatant lie that has been shoved down our throats for a long time, by the Umno bourgeois elite. It is the Great Lie that all right thinking Malaysian must expose.

“That idea, that notion of a supra entity guarding our interests, flies against the concept of the free man that we are,” wrote Mohamad Ariff Sabri.

He claimed that those guarding rights were not political parties but instead people collectively acting through a government, pursuing their collective legitimate interests and rights.

Shifting gears, Mohamad Ariff Sabri then went on to talk about a settlement in his constituency called Kampung SC, the last two letters of which stand for “Special Constabulary”.

“This was a group of gendarmes created by the British to fight communists and their sympathisers.

“There are about 100 houses there, consisting of homes built on land given to former special constables and ex-servicemen,” he said.

People had built their homes here on plots of about half an acre each or less, he said, people who had defended the nation against communist terrorists and other bandits.

“I would have thought the BN government would pay special attention to these people,” said Mohamad Ariff Sabri, adding that ex-servicemen today could be found scrounging a living as bank guards, odd-jobbers or working in workshops, among others.

However, he said this particular settlement had gained some sort of notoriety.

“Since 2006 this place has suffered from the lack of water supply. Before 2013, Raub has been the bastion of BN.

“They have done nothing to alleviate the problem. Nothing, other than assigning blame to the Opposition,” he said, adding that DAP had only recently gained control of the area which has an ethnic Chinese majority.

“All the previous MPs, since 40 years ago have been from BN all the time; the seat is reserved for the Ketua Wanita MCA or a prominent leader from that wing,” he said.

“Last week, the people of Kampong SC, without the agitation of anyone, took up it upon themselves to demonstrate against the government for the lack of water supply.

“As usual, the DAP was blamed for the demonstration. Except, in this case, the blame could not hold water because all the demonstrators were Malays.

“It’s impossible for Raub Malays to become stooges of DAP — a Chinese chauvinist, racist, communist party! Impossible.

“These are Malays, ex-security people, sworn enemies of any organisation remotely related to communist terrorists! They rose up in defiance unable to contain the lies that have burdened them since 2006,” said Mohamad Ariff Sabri.

He said parents had to tell their children not to come back for Hari Raya because due to a lack of water supply and dried up rivers due to the National Service camp that was built nearby.

“The inhabitants endured the poor dismal water supply patiently since 2006. You see, this is the difference between Malays and non-Malays when faced with this kind of problem.

“Any housing estate peopled by non-Malays would be up in arms if they don’t have water for more than a day.

“But Malay villagers would endure these shortages in good faith attributing the miserable water supply as a vicissitude of nature.

“But now the Malays of Kampung SC has acquired a new awareness. There is nothing natural about prolonged breakdown in water supply. The prolonged disruption is simply caused by mismanagement, bad policies and human interference.

“Nothing to do with nature. Malays are challenging the narration given by Umno. Malays have now acquired a new sense of political awareness. And it’s causing alarm bells within the Umno establishment,” he said.