SAPP: PBS leaders should have the courage to stand up for
SAS investors
 TAWAU, January 27, 2010: PBS leaders should have the real courage to stand
up for the Sabah Amanah Saham (SAS) investors, and to push for a thorough
probe into its fiasco, said Yong Chong Kim, a Supreme Council member of
Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
He stressed that this is the appropriate thing for them to do if they are
really passionate about the issue and concerned for the SAS investors, as
what was reflected in their recent statements highlighting the issue, and
conveniently linking it to SAPP President, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, portraying
him as the main culprit behind the issue.
He said PBS leaders like its deputy president, Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, its
Vice President Datuk Herbert Timbon Lagadan, its Information Chief, Datuk
Johnny Mositun and its People Development Leader (PKR) Kapitan Chin Teck
Ming who had been harping on the said issue of late, must not conveniently
keep quiet now just simply because Chief Minister of Sabah, Datuk Seri
Musa Hj Aman recently dismissed the issue as petty.
"They should have the courage to correct the Chief Minister's perspective
on the issue that it is not a petty issue and to push for a thorough probe
into it.
"Failing which, it would only confirm the public notion that all these
while they were merely exploiting the issue for the sole purpose of
defaming our party president and to cast bad light on SAPP as a whole.
Obviously, they could not find anything better than the SAS issue to
defame our party president," said Chong Kim in a statement issued here
today.
He reiterated that a thorough probe followed by the issuance of a White
Paper is the only way to find out the truth behind the SAS fiasco.
He reasserted that the slanderous remarks made by the PBS leaders all
these while were politically-motivated to undermine Datuk Yong's
credibility and to demonise him, especially since SAPP had pulled out from
the BN coalition to fight for the people of Sabah .
"In 2002, when Datuk Yong was convicted of an election offence because of
a trivial mistake on an election signboard, he was immediately
disqualified as the Member of Parliament and was refrained from taking
part in any general and state elections for a period of five years. He and
his party were still in Barisan Nasional then." " If Datuk Yong was really
involved in the manipulation of the SAS causing heavy losses to its
investors, then he would have been arrested long ago and sentenced to
severe punishment perhaps to the extend of spending the rest of his life
in prison," he said.
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