PRM 发表于 26-4-2013 05:04 PM
当年带领暴民在亚庀暴动的大魔头Yahya Lampong，林吉祥还大发文告要警察捉他，结果现在变成沙巴“Ini kali lah”的伙伴，还在“不怎么公正党”下竞选。政治就是那么幽默。
现在代表公正党上阵：P175 Papar: Datuk Mohammad Yahya @ Yahya Bim Lampong
March 22, 1986
Lim Kit Siang calls on the Police to arrest USNO MP for Kota Belud, Datuk Haji Yahya Lampong, for his role in the Kota Kinabalu riot of March 19 (1986)
Many USNO leaders have been seen, and photographed in the newspapers, as leading the demonstration resulting in the March 19 riot in Kota Kinabalu. I call on the Police to immediately arrest the USNO MP for Kota Belud, Datuk Haji Yahya Lampong, for his major role in the Kota Kinabalu riot of March 19.
TUARAN 15 Sept: Kurang 24 jam penyertaan bekas Bendahari Umno Sabah, Tan Sri Ibrahim Menudin ke KEADILAN, Naib Presiden Perkasa, Datuk Yahya Lampong pula melakukan tindakan sama.
Pengisytiharan Yahya keluar Umno dan menyertai KEADILAN dibuat pada majlis sambutan Hari Malaysia ke-49 anjuran Pakatan Rakyat di Restoran Singgah Singgarung, Tuaran, Sabah.
KOTA KINABALU, Nov 24, 2011: Former SUHAKAM vice chairman Tan Sri Simon Sipaun is of the view that the new fact revealed by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah pertaining to the Double Six air crash, merits an investigation.
He told the High Court on Tuesday that based on the new fact he felt a re-investigation would help to determine the truth behind the tragedy.
Sipaun was speaking while under cross-examination by the defence counsel in the hearing of a RM50 million defamation suit brought by former Chief Minister, Tah Sri Harris Salleh against the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and its president Datuk Yong Teck Lee.
Harris, 81, is suing SAPP and Yong for allegedly insinuating that he (Harris) was involved in causing the Double Six tragedy that killed Tun Fuad Stephens and all those on board the Nomad aircraft on June 6, 1976 in Sembulan.
Sipaun had chaired a forum on 2 April last year in which Tengku Razaleigh was a speaker.
According to Sipaun, to the best of his recollection, when Tengku Razaleigh spoke, he included some background and information leading to the formation of Petronas and the Petroleum Development Act 1974.
When asked whether there was anything that caught his attention in the course of Tengku Razaleigh's speech, Sipaun said: "Yes"
"lt was his first opening remarks in which he told the audience that every time he comes to Sabah he is reminded of the 6.6.1976 tragedy. However, what struck me most was when he said that he was already inside the plane together with the late Tun Fuad flying to Kota Kinabalu from Labuan when Datuk Harris came inside the plane and invited him to join him and go to Banggi Kudat instead and to him that's how his life was saved because of the invitation. Personally, I found this revelation by Tengku most significant because this was the first time that I heard that it happened that way," said Sipaun.
He also concurred with the defence counsel that the revelation of the information relating to the air crash by Tengku Razaleigh was a very important piece of information.
He agreed that the air crash of 6.6.1976 is an important historical event to sabah and that up to now he still does not know the real cause of the accident.
When Sipaun was referred to the two newspaper reports, he agreed with the first defendant's call for a re-investigation into the air crash and that as a member of public he agreed with the counsel that he wanted to know the truth behind the air crash.
When asked whether he agreed that the best way to find out the truth is to have a tribunal to investigate into the cause of the air crash, Sipaun ,answered: "Yes, I would agree if it is one of the possible means of knowing the truth."
When cross-examined by the plaintiff counsel, Sipaun was asked if he agreed that taken in ordinary context the revelation made by Tengku Razaleigh maintained the facts as to the cause of the tragedy, which he described as “kemalangan" or "nahas", and there was nothing suggesting new facts as to the cause of the incident.
Simon then replied that he was not sure what the plantiff's counsel meant by ordinary context.
“The fact that he mentioned "kemalangan" or "nahas" to me is not considered new facts. What is new development to the story is the fact that he was already inside the plane all strapped up ready to depart but invited at the last minute to go elsewhere. In my view this is the gist of the new development," he said.
Asked based on his answer that by inviting Tengku Razaleigh at the last moment to visit the cattle farm in Kudat, the plaintiff had a specific purpose to ask Tengku Razaleigh to leave the plane which later crashed, killing all its passengers, Sipaun said he was not in the position to ascertain the motive, if any, of the plaintiff.
Sipaun again said that he was not in the position to determine what actually went on in the mind of the plaintiff when the plaintiff counsel asked whether he agreed that the call to investigate the real cause of the incident based on Tengku Razaleigh's revelation, points to one and only one-that the plaintiff by inviting Tengku Razaleigh to leave the plane it the last moment, must have "known that something was going to happen to that plane later on.
When asked whether he agreed that since the new facts on the air crash was revealed by Tengku Razaleigh for the first time on 2 April 2010, it was prudent for anyone to ask him why he was only making the revelation that night, Sipaun said: "This question should be suitably answered by Tengku Razaleigh himself."
Further Sipaun said that he was not able to place himself in the shoes of Tengku Razaleigh, when asked by the counsel that if some one had asked Tengku Razaleigh why he was only making the revelation that night after 34 years, he would have given his explanation for doing so.
To another question, Sipaun said he was not in the position to agree or disagree when the counsel said that if anyone honestly believed that there was new information on the air crash revealed by Tengku Razaleigh, then the proper step to be taken is to make a formal police report asking for a new probe on the air crash and not to sensationalize it in the newspapers.
"I am not in the position to agree or disagree because i am not, familiar with the proper steps that need to be taken under the circumstances," he said.
Further the plaintiff's counsel asked; "Do you agree that you support the call for re-investigation on the incident because of Tengku Razaleigh's revelation that the Plaintiff last moment invitation to him to leave the plane saved his life?"
Sipaun answered that he was supportive of the case being revisited on 'the grounds that new information which had not been available before had become available.
Asked to be specific on what he meant by new information which had not been available before becoming available, Sipaun replied: “The fact that Tengku Razaleigh was already seated in the plane together with the late Tun Fuad Stephens and the rest and was asked to get off the plane at the last minute. This is something I have never heard of before."
Sipaun was also asked whether he agreed that all process of investigations were conducted "on the need to know basis" and that only the final outcome of the investigation shall be made public.
He said that he was not in the position to agree simply because he had naver been an investigator and he was not sure of the modus operandi for investigators to do their investigating.
He also said that he was not aware whether or not Tengku Razaleigh was interviewed by any investigating team concerning the facts he revealed on 2 April 2010.
To another question, Sipaun did not dispute when thd counsel said that other than the facts disclosed by Tengku Razaleigh that he was al ready seated behind the late Tun Fuad when the plaintiff invited him to leave the plane, there was nothing new about the incident he revealed.
The plaintiff's counsel then put it to Sipaun that both Tengku Razaleigh and the plantiff were, in the highest order of protocol, very disrespectful to the then Chief Minister if it was true that Tengku Razaleigh was already seated behind the late Tun Fuad when the plaintiff invited him to leave the plane to which he simply obliged; and therefore both Tengku Razaleigh and the plaintiff would not have done so.
Sipaun replied: "rorocol is a matter of formal against informal behaviour of the people concerned. Some leaders are less protocolly conscious whereas other are more protocolly conscious, so in this incident it is very difficult for me to as certain whether this was a protocol breach of observance having regard to the fact that as far as I am awaie Tun Fuad, Tengku Razaleigh and Datuk Harris also happened to be very close friends," he said.
The trial was held before Hish Court judge Datuk Abdul Rahman Sebli. Counsels Yunof Maringking and Trevor Maringking acted for Tan Sri Harris Salleh while Datuk Yong Teck Lee was represented by counsels Datuk Simon Shim and Flora Dius.
The trial has been adjourned to Dec 5, 6, 21, and 22 this year.
When a group of Kadazandusun professionals, including retired senior government officials, signed up this week to join former chief minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan's Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), newspaper reports created more than a cursory interest among public and political observers it also raised a few eye-brows, especially among its opponents.
For one, it has been read by most political observers as the great respect still enjoyed by Pairin, who took over as the Huguan Siou (paramount chief) of the Kadazan community soon after the death of the Tun Fuad (formerly Donald) Stephens, the then chief minister, in a plane crash in Sabah during the late 1970s.
No matter how hard they may have tried to do so, there may be no way Bernard Dompok, president of United Pasok Kadazan Organisation(UPKO), and Joseph Kurup, president of the crisis-ridden Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) could fit into the same shoes in the eyes of the Kadazandusun-Murut community.
Pairin lost little of that and, in fact, gained more respect even when his PBS government was toppled and he went into the opposition for nearly a decade until being finally taken back into Barisan Nasional.
Public ceremony
Earlier this week, among the respected retired senior government officers from the community who joined PBS in a public ceremony witnessed by Pairin's deputy Dr Maximus Ongkili, were two former deputy state secretaries Ignatius Bantoi from Penampang and Claudius Roman from Papar.
The others were Sabah Housing and Town Development Authority (SHTDA) general manager Verus Aman Shan, Finance Ministry's former permanent secretary Jipanus Molukun, medical practitioners Dr Jaochim Gunsalan and Dr Vellus Junius, environmental consultant Dr Beth Baikan, lawyers Anne Gilong and Anita Periuk and accountant Janes Albanus.
A veteran Sabah journalist who asked not to be identified described these professionals as among the many 'silent supporters' of PBS for many years until they surfaced recently, promoted in part by PBS' re-admission into BN.
Even before this, PBS' own ranks had been bolstered by the return of five PBRS' state assembly representatives, all originally elected on PBS tickets, driven away by a crisis over leadership control between Joseph Kurup and Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, Pairin's maverick politician brother.
Rather than getting caught in between, the five assemblypersons decided to go back to PBS, bolstering morale within the party not to say its membership ranks in the 48-seat state legislative assembly.
"Although the Registrar of Societies has determined that Joseph Kurup, now a nominated state assemblyperson and state minister, is the rightful leader of PBRS, the fight is far from over," the journalist said.
"He is still going around as if he is the party chief," he said of Jeffrey, who was elected president by his own faction before the ROS eventually intervened and declared Kurup the lawful leader.
Single political umbrella
Another experienced hand in Sabah politics told malaysiakini that following recent developments, including PBS' re-admission into BN, the Kadazandusun community appears to be rallying increasingly around PBS.
"Even Bernard Dompok and Joseph Kurup believe that the Kadazandusun community should come under a single political umbrella," he said, adding they have talked publicly of dissolving their respective parties as the first step towards cementing links with PBS.
"Although its strength comes from the Kadazandusun community, PBS is a multi-racial party, and three of its present 14 state assemblypersons are Chinese.
Pairin would prefer things stay as they are, at least for the time being, but with PBS as the political rallying point for the Kadazandusun community."
Both UPKO (which has three MPs and two assemblypersons within its ranks) and PBRS (which has only two assemblypersons, including Kurup, a nominated assemblyperson) have already seen their influence gradually on the wane after PBS' return to BN.
A number of PBS men have already been appointed to local councils and state bodies.
Post for PBS deputy
Pairin, who served as a minister in the Harris Salleh-led Berjaya Government and as chief minister after PBS toppled the same government, is said to be more than happy to stay as Huguan Siou and PBS president. He is said to harbour no ambition of coming back as chief minister.
Speculation has it that PBS deputy president Dr Maximus, younger brother of former federal minister Dr James Ongkili, is likely to be offered a federal post, if he is not appointed to the state cabinet.
Maximus is seen to be playing an increasingly active role as a PBS leader in public, with Pairin takingwhat seems to be a backroom seat at times, attending only to more major matters and going down to meet party grass-roots.
PBS' rising influence in Sabah politics has, however, not gone unnoticed among other political parties. It is said to be causing 'some concern' to the party's opponents as well as some other BN state leaders, including those in Sabah Umno "as to what the party's ultimate aim is."
Public apology
Recently, one of Umno Sabah senior leaders Lajim Ukin, one of the deputy chief ministers and formerly of PBS before his defection which caused the collapse of PBS government in the early 1990s, publicly apologised to Pairin for his actions and asked for forgiveness.
In his usual magnanimous self, Pairin, invited by Lajim to open a public function, accepted the apology, saying "Let by-gones be by-gones and let's look to the future and work together."
This public apology by Lajim to his former party boss was given wide publicity in Sabah papers and must have made a lot of Umno members wonder at Lajim's motives.
"PBS has a hidden agenda with its return to BN," claimed one Umno supporter who is closely associated with the United Sabah Islam Association (USIA).
A test for the 'new alliance' within Sabah BN will come with the coming parliamentary elections, expected in the first half of 2003, when the number of parliamentary seats in Sabah will be increased from the present 20 to 28. The number of state seats will be increased from 48 to 62 with the changes to the electoral boundaries.
According to a PBS leader, 20 of the 62 state seats are predominantly-Kadazandusun with the Malay/Muslim community controlling 30 and the rest Chinese or mixed constituencies. There are presently only six predominantly Chinese seats.
Dicey issue
The distribution of the state and parliamentary seats could be a dicey issue, especially among the Kadazandusun-based parties PBS, PBRS and Upko.
So long as Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is still around, it is not expected to face much of a problem when it comes to allocating and distributing seats among the component parties.
What will happen when he is not around and if Mahathir's successor preferd to leave it to the parties themselves to sort things out.
Without making an exit from BN, seasoned observers see an alternative to winning more seats by way of proxy candidates who after winning would declare their support for their sponsoring party or parties.
Unless the three Kadazandusun-based parties could reach some kind of an understanding before then.
Certain quarters already say the dissolution of PBRS is seen as something imminent other than for reason of merger.
After its internal crisis broke out it looks increasingly like a party with "a few generals and no soldiers" it has now been left with only one elected assemblyperson (Jeffrey) and one nominated assemblyperson (Kurup).
"If any member feels somewhat embarrassed to be a part of PBRS now, it is quite understandable," said another Sabah-based political analyst.
Jeffrey is trying to prevent the dissolution of PBRS so he can be PBRS leader, but Kurup is said not to be prepared to abandon PBRS and let Jeffrey take over something which the latter has been looking forward to.
And brother Joseph Pairin would probably not want too many Kadazandusun-based parties around as well.
Jeffrey may, therefore, find himself increasingly isolated politically, and possibly even without a constituency to stand on a BN ticket in the next state elections.
At the same time, however, the Kadazandusun community might then have managed to forge stronger political unity under one or, at most, two Kadazandusun-based parties.
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发表于 27-4-2013 12:28 PM
rorocol is a matter of formal against informal behaviour of the people concerned. Some leaders are less protocolly conscious whereas other are more protocolly conscious, so in this incident it is very difficult for me to as certain whether this was a protocol breach of observance having regard to the fact that as far as I am awaie Tun Fuad, Tengku Razaleigh and Datuk Harris also happened to be very close friends," he said.
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