WHAT A MISTAKE IT WAS FOR US TO BE SUCKERED INTO COLONIAL MALAYSIA!
How did Taib get into power?
Before Taib there was Abdul Rahman Yakuub his uncle. He got away with billions too and is quietly enjoying his stolen wealth somewhere in UK.
So BMF and Sarawak Report all this must be exposed because it is part of the same picture of Malayan colonization of Sarawak (and Sabah).
Abdul Rahman Yakuub was installed in power after a KL engineered coup against an elected Ningkan government in 1966.
The next big prize was Sarawak oil which Rahman and his nephew signed away to UMNO under the Petronas Act. This was part and parcel of consolidating UMNO colonial grip on a Sarawak ruled by a friendly puppet Melanau Muslim regime. This dovetailed with UMNO’s Malay supremacist ideology. The non-Muslims especially the Dayak didn’t even realise this until too late.
(This political plot was similarly followed in Sabah where a recalcitrant CM Donald Stephens was made to disappear in a plane explosion and his happy successor Harris Salleh went on the sign away Sabah oil rights. He also fitted into UMNO’s Malay supremacist plan. Imagine what idiots these people are! Just for selfish personal gaind they will sell out their country!)
This shows that the Yakuub/Taib Family had betrayed Sarawak interests in helping to consolidate UMNO colonial rule.
Later Taib was endorsed by his UMNO masters if not acquiesced to his seizure of power from Rahman in 1987.
Having installed himself in power with the help of other local puppet parties Taib like his uncle had a free hand in plundering Sarawak land and resources while UMNO helped itself to our oil and gas.
This is how & where UMNO cronies become billionaires mainly through companies linked to Petronas & corruptly getting huge contracts etc. The Petronas Towers cost $1 billion? and who got the contracts? Mahathir son’s bankrupt company in the 1990s was bailed out with $2 billion by you guess who- Petronas & us!
The Pakatan Buku Jingga makes some interesting revelations on how the oil money is being (mis)used.
Every year $19 billion of oil and gas subsidies are given to power producers (UMNO’s cronies) and $11 billion subsidies to consumers. Since Malaya has 20 million people Sabah and Sarawak both have very small populations we can see who benefits most from these subsidies. We are subsidizing “them”.
We are not talking about not wanting to share our resources but seeing them stripped and shipped wholesale out to Malaya’s development! Is this any different from the UK stripping colonial Malaya of its wealth?
The other development contracts including Bakun Dam are small fries!
As long as Taib continue to deliver Sarawak into the hands of UMNO every election- which he and uncle has been doing since 1966, he is safe for criminal prosecution. UMNO will protect him which explains why Taib can afford to thumb his nose at Najib as there are many other UMNO oil billionaires who are friendly and on side with Taib.
It remains to be seen if PAKATAN will keep its promises and initiate criminal prosecution against Taib if it wins the right to rule.
This is one significant threat to his political career Taib is seriously considering and it will make him fight his dirtiest as ex-US Ambassador Mallot predicted to win the GE13 for UMNO!
But why are we torturing ourselves trying to make it “better in Malaysia”?
With all our resources we could be a rich independent stand alone country. What is the greatness of remaining in “Malaysia”?
If we don’t get Sarawak out of Malaysia as soon as possible we will be even bigger suckers!