Nik Aziz sumbang 1/3 simpanan untuk PAS

 Hafiz Irwan    KOTA BHARU, 16 Dis: Menteri Besar yang  juga Mursyidul Am PAS, Tuan Guru Datuk  Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat bercadang untuk  menyumbangkan satu pertiga daripada wang  simpanannya kepada PAS bagi memantapkan  lagi parti dalam memperjuangkan Islam. "Saya sudah maklum pada setiausaha saya  minta semak duit dalam akaun ada berapa,  kemudian bahagi tiga. Saya hendak beri  kepada parti sebagai sumbangan dalam  memantapkan gerakan daulah Islamiyah,"  katanya kepada pemberita selepas ditemui di kediamannya hari ini. Tindakan itu sebagai tanda kesyukuran di atas keputusan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah  Malaysia (SPRM) yang menutup kes bersabit tajaan terhadapnya untuk mengerjakan haji  melibatkan kos RM65,000 tahun lalu. Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz yang juga Mursyidul Am PAS berkata, dakwaan berhubung  rasuah yang dilempar ke atasnya sebelum ini adalah berpunca dari rasa benci pihak  tertentu lantaran kecekalannya memperjuangkan dasar Islam. "Orang tuduh saya kerana benci dengan saya terus memperjuangkan Islam.  Tapi, walau apapun, asal kita ini berada pada landasan yang benar, Allah  tetap bantu kita dengan kebenaran. "Alhamdulillah, saya bersyukur kepada Allah SWT dengan keputusan itu," katanya. Semalam, SPRM membuat keputusan menutup kes membabitkan Nik Abdul Aziz  yang sebelum ini didakwa menerima wang tajaan RM65,000 untuk mengerjakan  haji tahun lalu. Petikan dari Harakah Daily

BN naik harga barang untuk dana PRU

    KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Dis: Dewan  Pemuda PAS Pusat mendakwa  keputusan kerajaan menaikkan  harga empat barangan keperluan  baru-baru ini  adalah bertujuan mengutip  dana pilihan raya untuk Umno BN. Ketuanya, Nasruddin Hassan (gambar)  berkata, Umno kini terdesak apabila  beberapa negeri yang sebelum ini  menjadi 'lubuk emas' mereka, kini  diteraju Pakatan Rakyat selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-12, Mac 2008 lalu. "Apa yang kita bimbang, kerajaan Umno BN menggunakan peluang ini untuk mengumpul  dana pilihan raya. "Apakah dengan kehilangan empat buah negeri pada PRU lalu, mereka hilang punca  pendapatan sehingga terpaksa naikkan harga barang secara melulu, biarpun berdepan  kemarahan rakyat," katanya kepada Harakahdaily. Beliau berkata demikian terhadap tindakan kerajaan menaikkan harga petrol RON95,  diesel, Petroleum Gas Cecair (LPG) dan gula baru-baru ini. Katanya, rakyat tidak boleh menerima kenaikan mendadak tersebut apatah lagi Malaysia  adalah sebuah negara pengeluar minyak dunia dan sewajarnya rakyat negara ini  tidak dibebankan dengan kenaikan tersebut. Lebih malang, rakyat katanya seperti dihukum akibat sikap boros kerajaan termasuk  membelanjakan wang yang besar untuk projek mega yang tiada kesan langsung kepada  rakyat. "Negara sepatutnya mempunyai dana tampungan, agar rakyat tidak dibebankan. "Kenaikkan ini akan menjejaskan potensi rakyat untuk hidup selesa," katanya. Sehubungan itu, Dewan Pemuda PAS akan mengadakan kempen kesedaran kepada  rakyat, jam 5 petang, 18 Disember ini di sekitar Masjid Jamek, Kuala Lumpur. Selain bertemu masyarakat, mereka juga akan mengedarkan risalah berhubung isu itu. Akibat kenaikkan terbaru itu, petrol RON95, kini menjadikan RM1.90 seliter berbanding  RM1.85 sebelum ini. Harga diesel juga naik 5 sen menjadikannya RM1.80 seliter manakala gas LPG juga  naik 5 sen menjadikan harganya RM1.90 sekilogram. Harga gula pula naik 20 sen menjadikan harganya RM2.10 sekilogram.

Sekadar Santapan..

Di dalam hidup manusia, yang penting ialah BERKAT.
Bila hidup kita berkat, diri ini akan selamat.
Apabila diri selamat, rumahtangga jadi sepakat.
Apabila rumahtangga jadi sepakat, masyarakat jadi muafakat.
Apabila masyarakat jadi muafakat, negara kita menjadi kuat.
Apabila negara menjadi kuat, negara luar jadi hormat.
Apabila negara luar jadi hormat, permusuhan pun tersekat.
Apabila permusuhan tersekat, pembangunan pun meningkat.
Apabila pembangunan pun meningkat, kemajuan menjadi pesat.

TETAPI AWAS,

Apabila pembangunan meningkat, kemajuan menjadi pesat, kita lihat bangunan naik bertingkat-tingkat.
Ditengah-tengah itu, tempat maksiat tumbuh macam kulat.
Apabila tempat-tempat maksiat tumbuh macam kulat,
KETIKA ITU manusia mula mengubah tabiat.
Apabila manusia telah mengubah tabiat,ada yang jadi lalat ada yang jadi ulat.
Apabila manusia dah jadi ulat,sembahyang makin hari makin liat.
Apabila sembahyang jadi liat, orang baik ada yang bertukar jadi jahat.
Apabila orang baik bertukar jahat, orang miskin pula nak kaya cepat.
Apabila orang miskin nak kaya cepat, orang tua pula nak mati lambat.
Apabila orang tua nak mati lambat, tak dapat minum madu telan jerla minyak gamat.

Yang lelaki, budak budak muda pakai seluar ketat.
Semua nak tunjuk kuat.
Bila berjudi, percaya unsur kurafat.
Tapi hidup pula yang melarat.
Tali kasut dah tak berikat.
Rambut pun jarang sikat.

Yang perempuan,

Pakai mini sekerat.
Suka pakai baju ketat... (apa dapat...)
Suka sangat menunjukkan pusat.
Hingga tak pedulikan lagi batasan aurat.
Pakai pulak yang singkat-singkat.
Kadang-kadang ternampak benda 'bulat'.
Bila jadi macam ini, siapa lihat pasti tercegat.
Silap gaya jadi gawat, bohsia bohjan lagi hebat.
Duduk jauh berkirim surat.
Bila berjumpa, tangan berjabat.
Kemudian pakat lawan peluk siapa erat.
Masa tu, nafas naik sampai tersekat-sekat.
Usah peduli agama dan adat.
Usah takut Allah dan malaikat.
Yang penting apa kita nak buat?
Kita 'bukti' lah kita buat.
Akhirnya perut kempis dah jadi bulat.
Apabila perut kempis dah jadi bulat, maka lahirlah
pula anak-anak yang tak cukup sifat.
Bila anak-anak tak cukup sifat, jam tu kita tengok bayi dibuang di merata tempat.

MAKNANYA KETIKA ITU, IBLIS MULA MELOMPAT.
Dia kata apa? Habis manusia dah masuk jerat.
Habis manusia telah tersesat.
Inilah dia fenomena masyarakat.

Oleh itu wahai saudaraku dan para sahabat,
Marilah kita pakat mengingat,
Bahawa dunia hari ini makin singkat,
Esok atau lusa mungkin kiamat,
Sampai masa kita semua akan berangkat! .
Berangkat menuju ke negeri akhirat.

Di sana kita akan ditanya apa yang kita buat.
Masa tu, send i ri mau ingat.

Umur mu banyak mana , berapa banyak kamu buat ibadat...?
Zaman muda mu, apa yang telah ka mu buat...?
Harta benda anda, dari mana anda a dapat...?
Ilmu anta, adakah anta manafaat...?

Sebagai sesama insan sama2lah ingat mengingati sesama insan!!!
Semoga ianya dapat mengingatkan kita supaya segera
meninggalkan maksiat dan memperbanyakkan ibadat.

(Petikan ucapan Ustaz Hj. Akil Hayy Rawa.
Sebarkanlah ini kepada ahli keluarga, saudara-mara, rakan-rakan dan sahabat handai kita agar masyarakat kita akan menjadi sebuah masyarakat yang bukan sahaja maju dari segi duniawi malah ukhrawi. Insya-Allah...Allahhuakbar! Allahhuakbar! Allahhuakbar!)

Corruption?!

CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POWER – IRREFUTABLE 

EVIDENCE AGAINST TAIB. EXCLUSIVE!

Certain people in high places are given to alleging that the facts which have been published in Sarawak Report may not be true.  Yet, the allegations we have published have been verifiable and documented.

Likewise, available to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in the government’s own register of companies, is the following irrefutable information. The company Mesti Bersatu is a major shareholder in Delta Padi Sdn Bhd, a venture that has caused shocking devastation on the mainly Melanau island of Pulau Bruit.

Also documented and verifiable is the fact that the Sarawak government has handed large tracts of land in Sungai Lengan on Pulau Bruit at minimal cost (RM78,000 for 100 hectares) to Delta Padi Sdn Bhd to develop a rice project, for which laughable levels of compensation have been offered to the Native Customary Landowners of the area.  Pristine Mangrove forests have been destroyed over the past four years and the waters of the region have been polluted.  Environmentalists are concerned that the development is now illegally encroaching also on the National Park on the island.

The Chief Minister's shareholding is stated in the Register of Companies

Mesti Bersatu, which is such a large shareholder in this enterprise, belongs to the Chief Minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud and members of his family.  His name is printed in black and white as a key shareholder in the Register of Companies for all to see.  This means that as the  Head of Government he has been handing the land and development opportunities to himself.

Mesti Bersatu’s two partners in Delta Padi are Taib’s business crony Hii Yu Peng and the organisation Pelita, which belongs to Sarawak’s Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA), of which Chief Minister Taib Mahmud is also the Chairman!  This is all in black and white – there can be no argument.

It should be observed that the Sarawak Government has given these grants of valuable land to Delta Padi thanks to specific decisions by the Planning & Resources Minister and, of course, the Chairman of the LCDA. These key decision-making positions when it comes to the granting of land are both occupied by the Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud.   Therefore, Taib has particularly used his position of direct authority over these departments to hand himself cheap land, which he had alienated from the native people.  This is a clear case of conflict of interest, abuse of power and corruption.

Not just public land but also public money has been channelled into the Chief Minister’s company

However, it has not just land that Taib has been handing to himself through to Delta Padi Sdn Bhd.  Both state and federal government money is also evidently being poured into supporting the venture, of which he and his family are such major shareholders.  These resources will have been made available thanks, of course, to the decisions of Sarawak’s Finance Minister.  Sarawak’s Finance Minister is also Abdul Taib Mahmud.  This is another clear case of conflict of interest, abuse of power and corruption.

In an announcement to the news agency Bernama in 2004, the Minister James Masing explained the Sarawak Government’s policy towards the project – a policy that is spearheaded by the Chief Minister, Finance Minister, Land & Resources Minister and Chairman of the LCDA, who are all Abdul Taib Mahmud.  The report quotes Masing:

‘“Since Sarawak is basically in its early stage of rice production, subsidy must be provided for it to succeed.”  He [Masing] said his ministry would act as the main co-ordinator between the various state and federal agencies and ministries involved in order for it to succeed.

He said under Phase One of its proposed development, a sum of RM19 million was needed for its irrigation system and he hoped the Federal Ministry of Agriculture could make the fund available soon.  Masing said it had been estimated that about RM75 million was needed for the granary overall development……….

On the Delta Padi Plantation, he said since its inception seven years ago, a sum of RM18 million had been spent in its development.  It had also invested RM8 million on its own rice milling facility the biggest in the country ….  Masing said the state government would assist Delta Padi in dealing with its main rat and bird problems and in looking for more markets for its rice.   He urged the national rice board or BERNAS to lend a helping hand”. [James Masing, Bernama 18/10/2004]

   

 

 

 

 

No proof? The Chief Minister and his family own Mesti Bersatu

Corruption

Progress and Development? - 6 years after Taib took their land and stripped their forest these locals are left destitute.

The above information is all verifyable to the Malaysian Government and the MACC through the Register of Companies, their own official documents and ministerial announcements.  The  government auditors will be well-placed also to assess just how much Federal and State money has in total been poured into helping Delta Padi develop the project, in which the Chief Minister and his family hold a such a major shareholder  interest.  

In this context they might like to consider how little of those substantial millions have been spent in assisting the desperately poor Melanau and Iban populations of the area who have lost their fishing and hunting grounds and are suffering flooding and pollution as a result of the degradations and plantations on their Native Customary Lands? 

So what is not true?

Therefore Sarawak Report would like to enquire on what basis BN commentators care to suggest that our accusations might be untrue and on what basis the MACC is refusing to investigate the State of Sarawak’s Chief Minister for abusing his powers to enrich himself and his family?

Former Mangrove Island - stripped by Taib

Perhaps it is because it would appear that the members of the BN party have a highly undeveloped understanding of what forms corrupt practice?  In an interview recorded last week, Taib’s political ally, YB Karim Hamza, attempted to justify the Sarawak State Government’s current White Paper proposals to clamp down on media outlets like Sarawak Report, with a series of statements that have caused hilarity throughout Malaysia and abroad. 

While complaining that the reports on Taib’s wealth are not proven, Hamza’s simultaneously sought to justify it!   It would surely be “unfair” he argued for the Chief Minister not to be able to take up the “opportunities” provided by his office for example to buy “cheap land” if someone were to offer it to him?

Hamza further articulated at length how public office is regarded by himself and fellow BN members not as an opportunity to serve the community, but as an opportunity to get into business at the same time and to make money from the “connections” that arise.  Mixing politics and business in such a way is essentially the dictionary definition of political corruption and Hamza has openly admitted to approving it.

In the interview, which can be heard on Radio Free Sarawak via it’s websitehttp://www.radiofreesarawak.org/ he frequently declares that it would not be “fair” if only businessmen and not politicians could be wealthy and “fly around in jets” and asserts that the families of politicians must of course be advantaged by using their resulting ‘network’ of connections.  He also slanderously implied that Prime Ministers in the UK and USA do the same and are “all filthy rich”.

Taib took the 'opportunity' to make millions, but what was in it for the Melanau voters of Pulau Bruit?

Since Abdul Taib Mahmud, who receives a modest official salary appropriate to the concept of public service, is clearly wealthy beyond imagination; since he puts endless government contracts the way of his family; since he demands large sums of money and shares from any business that seeks to gain a licence to operate in Sarawak and since he also flies around constantly in private jets, we can only conclude that the Chief Minister agrees one hundred percent with Hamza’s justifications of corruption. 

Favours to Delta Padi from Taib’s government departments

It is clear that Mesti Bersatu’s involvement in the Delta Padi project forms one of the ‘business opportunities’ of the sort that YB Karim Hamza was referring to.  Crony business tycoon Hii Yu Peng evidently provided the Chief Minister with an ‘opportunity’ to take a stake in his venture to turn the Native Customary Rights Lands on the pristine island of Bruit into a paddy project.

Mr Hii Yu Peng has of course put in most of the private capital into the venture, true to the pattern of all Taib’s dealings with local towkeys in search of land and licences, which he totally controls.  Indeed it is extremely unlikely that the Taib family company Mesti Bersatu has contributed a single penny to Delta Paddy in return for the quarter of all the shares that they have acquired. 

A further quarter of the shares are in the hands of the state agency Pelitia, most likely pending a suitable time for their ‘privatisation’ into the Taib family clutches, after the need for more state funding has passed (keep reading Sarawak Report for further evidence on this practice).

In return for this private investment by Hii, the State Government and in particular the LCDA department of which Taib is Chairman, has granted an eye-watering level of ‘opportunities’ to Delta Padi.  These ‘opportunities’ also noticeably escalated in the aftermath of the incorporation of Mesti Bersatu in May 2007 and its involvement in the Delta Padi project.

Carving up Pulau Bruit - the map is wrongly labelled as Delta Padi does not belong to Jaya Tiasa, it belongs to Taib

Sarawak Reports researches have now identified the following plots mainly in Pulau Bruit, as having been handed to Delta:

3 plots in Sungai Lengan, Sibu (acquired 2005 – 2010) amounting to 100 hectares for a bargain  basement RM78,000

6 plots in Batang Lebaan, Sibu (acquired 2007) amounting to 2,000 for RM2.5 million

2 plots in Sungai Buloh (acquired 1999) amounting to around 300 hectares for nothing.

4 plots in Serendeng Sarikei (acquired 2009 and 2010) amounting to 1,000 hectares for a give-away RM700,000

2 plots in Tulai Meradong (acquired 2008) amounting to about 400 hectares for RM310,000

4 plots in Paloh (acquired 2000-2005) amounting to around 7,700 hectares between 1998-2008 for roughly RM 2.75 million

1 plot in Mukah (2008) of 5,000 hectares for RM 2.5 million.

Coming to court

The recent extension of the lands handed to the Delta Padi venture has now sparked a legal action by 8 Native Iban villages, who will be represented by the human rights lawyer and PKR leader of Sarawak Baru Bian.  Mr Bian will most likely be surprised to discover that he is to be challenging the Chief Minister himself in this civil case, as locals were misleadingly informed that the company behind the Delta Padi project was Rimbunam Hijau, presumably in a mishandled attempt to hide Taib’s involvement. 

Sarawak Report is wondering when such civil cases against the Chief Minister will finally give way to more appropriate criminal cases in the Federal Courts of Malaysia, given the evidence of this and numerous other cases of corruption by BN in Sarawak?