SAPP will move motion for white paper on SAS fiasco at assembly sitting
 Kota
Kinabalu, Feb 4, 2010: The two SAPP members of the State Legislative Assembly will move a motion
under Standing Order 31 of the Assembly to ask the BN State Government to
publish a white paper on the SAS fiasco so that the whole truth will be made
known in the interests of the public and SAS investors.
This motion is necessary because of the arrogance of the PBS members of
the BN administration who have repeatedly attacked SAPP, especially its
President, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, on the SAS issue. These PBS leaders have
over the years made defamatory and malicious statements that Datuk Yong was
responsible for the losses suffered by SAS investors. PBS has been
suggesting that wrong doings have been committed in SAS's dealing. Its
supreme councilor Chin Tek Ming had even tried to mislead the public that Datuk Yong was the Chairman of SAS.
SAPP has been consistent all along that Datuk Yong and SAPP other leaders
have nothing to hide and nothing to fear on the SAS issue. If any wrong
doing has been committed by Datuk Yong or its two ex-members who were
ministers at the time, Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah and Datuk Tham Nyip Shen,
then they should be exposed and punished. Any wrong doing of political
leaders should not be used as bargaining chips to make them obey BN and UMNO.
Any attempt to do so by the authorities amounts to political corruption.
On new year's day last month, PBS Information Chief Datuk Johnny Mositun,
who is also Deputy Speaker, revived the issue by naming Datuk Yong as the
ex-Chief Minister responsible for the SAS fiasco although there were several
Chief Ministers whose tenures straddle the SAS issue.
Datuk Johnny Mositun later sheepishly backtracked by claiming that he had
named only Datuk Yong as the the ex-CM for the SAS fiasco because of SAPP
Youth leader Edward Dagul's police report on his (Mositun) press reports.
But he shot himself because the police report was made by Edward after, and
in response to, his (Mositun's) news report.
Other PBS leaders who joined the fray included PBS deputy president and
Cabinet Minster Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai, PBS Vice President and assistant
minister Datuk Herbert Timbon Lagadan and political secretary John Lim. They
had called on Datuk Yong to explain the SAS issue, implying that Datuk Yong
was responsible for the SAS fiasco.
SAPP has always maintained that Datuk Yong is not in a position to explain
the SAS issue because Datuk Yong was not involved in the policies and
investment decisions of SAS. SAS documents, board and investment committee
minutes and other official records are government documents. If Minister
Datuk Yee Moh Chai, Datuk Herbert and Datuk Johnny Mositun want to know more
about the SAS issue, they should use their government channel to find out.
Why is Datuk Dr. Yee not agreeable for a white paper on SAS? Does he
expect the people to forget that he was very vocal on the SAS issue before
he became a Minister six years ago? Does he know something today that he did
not know before he became a Minister? What has he got to hide? Of is he
trying to cover up for somebody?
The last time that a White Paper was presented to the Assembly was on 2
April 1998 by the then Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries cum Chairman of
the State Forestry Policy Implementation Committee. The White Paper was on
the "Reclassification of Banggi Forest Reserve from Class I to Class II (Pengkelasan
Semula Hutan Simpan Banggi Dari Kelas I ke Kelas II)". (Shown here is a copy
of the white paper). The paper was presented under Standing Order 17(2).
The SAS White Paper can be published under the same standing order. SAS
board and investment committee minutes and transactions, memos, circulars
and other official records can be included in the white paper.
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