Baram’s ‘Dirty Dato’ Has More Fingers In The Pie!
Posted Monday, February 27th, 2012
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Dirty Dato! - Not content with his Belian timber concessions Sagan has also picked up millions in state construction contracts!
More information has been coming to light about the corrupted business ventures of Dato Jacob Sagan, Malaysia’s Deputy Minister for International Trade and Industry.
At the weekend we exposed how he, together with his wife and daughter, secretly hold a series of valuable Belian timber concessions in his own Baram constituency.
Now, thanks to comments from our readers, we have further identified that he, together with his wife, brother and sister-in-law, have also been raking in millions from government construction contracts!
RM 63.4 million in construction contracts!
We received the tip off from our comments page that Sagan is also involved with a construction company called Dema Tega Sdn Bhd, registered in Kuching.
Keeping it in the family!
Sure enough Dema Tega is Directed by Sagan’s wife Winnie, his brother Peter and his sister in law Roseline, married to another brother, Dominic.
Power couple - Winnie Jolly's business activities are sensational!
So, Winnie Jolly certainly makes an impressive political wife. Imagine being able to combine all those constituency duties, international ministerial trips and rearing a family with the Directorships of not only a string of timber companies, but also a series of multi-million ringgit federal construction projects!
The problem is that people in ministerial positions should not be involved in publicly funded contracts for obvious reasons. To do so is a clear conflict of interest and therefore corrupt.
Yet, according to the CIDB register, which records the companies who get government contracts, Dema Tega has received no less than a staggering RM63million in contracts over the past 5 years!
It must surely be asked, where did Winnie get her experience in construction and how did she and her in-laws get the money to invest in such mega building-ventures, which include a healthy chunk of an upcoming rural water project, funded by the Federal Government to the tune of RM2.5billion?
Contracts which add up to over RM63 million have been handed to Sagan's wife, brother and sister in law by the government!
Time to be frank. Do we think that Dema Tega is likely to have been the very best value for money firm, that was selected out of a tough and open competition to take on this project, or do we think that Dema Tega will merely sub-contract the work and take a fat commission in the process?
In case there is any confusion as to where the profits from these public projects are going, take a look at who the shareholders of Dema Tega Sdn Bhd are.
Shareholders are all in the family - Jacob's brother and sister in law act as his proxies according to insiders
Meanwhile, our comment column is beginning to throw up yet more information about the wide and varied government sponsored business activities of the pro-Baram Dam MP. According to readers, Jacob Sagan also has a lucrative licence to run one of Kuching’s top Petronas petrol stations!
What more can SR readers bring to light about Sarawak’s Dirty Datos and Wealthy YBs?!
Do keep the information flowing. Those wishing to be even more discreet can email us at info@sarawakreport.org!
Questions for Najib
Jacob Sagan may be a local boy from Baram, but he is also a Federal Government Minister, who will be standing again for BN in the coming election. Sagan also represents the Malaysian Government abroad as one of its most high profile ministers internationally.
Look who gets the construction contract for the water supply to his own constituency villages
From now on he will be facing foreign delegations and touring foreign countries with the stain of proven corruption against his name.
So what does the PM propose to do about such a scandalous and embarrassing situation?
Probably nothing. After all, given the record of so many of BN’s politicians, it is probably fair to conclude that Jacob Sagan is merely a fitting representative for his government!
So, Sarawak Report asks whether the Prime Minister or Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission plans to take action over this case of high level corruption, without much hope that either of them will.
Up to the people
Enjoy the view while you can - Jacob Sagan is willing to allow the destruction of his lands in return for concessions and contracts from his BN bosses
Sagan’s own constituents will, despite BN’s rampant cheating, perhaps get one last opportunity to take some action in the up-coming Federal elections.
It is unlikely they will get another chance, because Jacob Sagan is currently supporting Taib’s plans to flood most of his local area, turning tens of thousands of his people from their homes, with the construction of the Baram Dam.
Then their lands will be no more.
For months there has been confusion as to why Sagan is supporting this terrible plan. But, now we know.
Sagan’s loyalties plainly lie with Taib’s BN government, which has issued him millions in contracts. And it plainly no longer lies with his constituents, whose lands he has raped and is now in the process of helping to destroy.
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I bet the top officers in MACC are pocketing government projects as well !
plight of native sarawakians …
getting screwed and screwed bad by own kinds and yet they are complaining about white hair.
this is so funny.
long live stupid …. errrr… native sarawakians.
Dear Author, Dato Jacob also owns the Petronas petrol station along 13th Mile (Kuching-Serian road) on the way to Serian.
ya meh ?? how sure are u??
yes..jacob owns the Petronas petrol station at 13 mile (kuching serian)..manage by his brother Peter usang sagan and his wife Usun stewart Ngau
im His son…dont make a statements that is not true….
I'm his son too.
Voters be aware of those among you who is ready to betray and drown you for a mountain-full of belians and millions. Boot him out!
Let's hear about the other ministers – Jabu, Masing, Mawan, Uggah, Tiki, Nansian, Naroden, Fadilah, Nora, etc … etc. The should serve their rakyat, but they have conflict of interest too. TOO BAD for a state rich in resources, being plundered by those GREEDY ministers. This time around, no vote for them.
weell at least most of them sarawakians…give the power to p.k.r we have the west malaysian hantam us…like sabah…..i don't hate the iban or orang ulu or bidayuh to be millionaires….they desrved it…sarawak is their land but how about the fowchow….getting and robbing our forest and land all this time…….so if they have nafsu babi….let them be….even you will do the same like all the rest…..pot calling the kettle black…all of us are the same.
Our PR representative YB BB…..why no noise with this kind of news….afraid of your own? Or maybe that's the way politics is in Malaysia….
I know Jake; he's a decent bloke nor a rich man. This smells of a set-up.
Are you sure? Try and dig around 3rd Mile Bazaar! At the church for example. May find some skeletons there. Semua boleh!
I've known Jake for 25 years and never known him to hurt another person. Mistakes, sure sometimes, we all do that. But he isn't malicious or conniving.
Just bent!
I know Jacob too and can vouch he is a nice man. But that is not the issue. It is about his position in government and the stench of conflict of interests and possible abuse of power.
just because someone is nice does not mean that he is in capable of doing misdeeds
if not mistaken, taib is also a nice guy and all this is an elaborate SR set up
Steve Flood, Orang europa???. What set up???Kita bersama. Kita orange susu..ed our sarawak. Jake eh???. Rich?????….. two million ringit delivered to his doorstep when he was first elected!! I know him as Dato Sagan corrupted like all politicians. Maybe not malicious or conniving…. true, but he is surrounded by malicious and conniving people…..his wife and inlaws. Dato Sagan, your are a Kenyah.?????…shame on you. Tribes of Baram… vote him out. Protect ur land and urselves
a nice person hence a good and fair politician? poor argument.
most successful politicians are slick and know how to talk their way in and out of a situation. is a mask they put on in public. want to know what's deep down, look at his/her pattern of actions.
michelle, if you are reading this, tell your daddy to stop and change.
michelle, if you are reading this, tell your daddy to stop and change. Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong. "Should be michelle, BEG your MOMMY and her family to stop and change".
I knew Jacob at School. We oftened talked about "My Sarawak" . Now it should be "Sarawak thank you for letting me cheat my people". Jacob, you have been tainted by a malicious and conniving family. The only person giving something back to the Baram and Sarawak is Dr. L. Sagan
jacob is a good man…he buys his babi hutan from me….and always treat people in baram with respect…..if he don't get the concession…..its goes to the fochow….better he gets it…i wan sagan to be rich….i am tire to see all the chines rich from our timber and land and now melanau…..i want to see more sagan or lawan or kayan….more dayak should be rich….why sell babi hutan like me…..now,i don't care about sarawakian be rich especially dayak and natives…better they be rich then the pendatang come and rompak us like they do in bakun…..if ting pek king or tiong ah king…no body say a thing if its local baramist…you all hantam him…..at least a baram boy taste the wealth from baram then all go to fochow and foreigners.
yes sagan and baram…so what.God bless him…..and family…they have help us when others spit on us…we ask p.k.r….apa ada….election datang,daru tunjuk muka…when we from baram sick in hospital and dying…jacob and wife…even michelle come and help us stranded in kuching…not once but so many time for us from baram….jangan cakap,when he and family have hati manusia….kaya yes…i want all from baram to be rich not just fowchow from our timber……you don't know him and family….how many dead relatives he help to bring back from kuching hospital back to baram.he is not such a bad person,he help when he can.such is his heart and family…daughter even michelle.don't condem sebarang condem…yes but there are good people in b.n,we also give face…same like sagan.
Hiya gila babi, sure jacob and his family help…the foochow and melanu to be kaya lah, not you and me. Without them, he mati man. Ofcourse we count in his eyes, during election time. One kotak of Soya Bean or one beer and we kena sapu. I remember the early election days in pujut when we were so happy to receive a kotak of gula tebu or soya bean jus. God bless the anglican convert. In school he was RC. He changes with the GOLD wind. Make him rich, make more rich, make him very rich, my wild boar seller friend. Just beware that all the babi hutans will be no more soon, the baram will dissappear. and he and friends will be richer, not you. Enjoy your envoirement while you can.
yalah yalah…..the babi are so fat now makan sawit and multiply so fast…..watever j sagan convert to is his choice….its his personal belief…but just don't hate him.not many of us in baram are rich…..when our area is the riches…..but many fochow are from our area…..its not sagan fault he knows if he don get it…others,especially the fochow will get him…better sagan get it…lets be happy for him….but we don do a thing about the fochow do we……
Do approach MACC and put them in the real picture and see what they have had to say. I am serious! We are already getting into a monotonous mood only reading what these people are doing in broad daylight. What we actually want is to take the appropriate action against them without further ado i.e. to give them the opportunity of defending themselves. We want to hear from them disputing your claim/s. PBMA
The coming GE is a window of opportunity not to be missed if the people really wants changes for the better or live under the tyranny of a despot, business as usual, till who knows when. The power to change is in everyone's hand, but if you're like Sagan who can betray and quite easily fall on the sideway and succumb to illicit gains, then you dig your own grave. It would indeed be a tragedy if that happens again, an opportunity lost, and possibly for many years to come, a last golden opportunity.
Itu la tuan dayak or dayak punya tuan untuk dayak di ulu makan kenyag2 seorang diri but tell his people do as i say but don't do as i do! shitlaka!!!
that's why dayak love taib…iban love taib kayan kenyah love taib not to mention the bidayuh and cina……bila kita cakap…dayak love taib semua marah…tapi ni lah kebenarannya…dayak baram love taib…dapat duit…..rompak semua sapu semua…..suruk buat kerja untuk tolong raakyat semua tak mahu…cakap saja mahu…..kerja tak mahu…ni cakap sampai mulut berbuih and tenkak haus cakap pasal taib tapi unti masih juak…b.n gan taib…sapa bodoh…dayak juak….mun bodoh nang bodohlah….sik molah pa pa…tandah jask taib sia…cakap aapa buang masa…..tiak lah kelah mun taib masih sia….nang benar dayak l0ve taib…jangan marah kitak semua terimka hakikat nyata…dayak love taib sampai taib mati busuk din kubur pun dayak pergi kubur nya sembang…nak bodo tok dayak bukan taib bukan sagan bukan mawan bukan jabu.dayak bodoh.
What do they expect me to do? Punish one small political criminal when we are all, myself included, at it? Get real! We will buy the next election as always in the past. The people are too stupid and so easily bribed at tiny cost even to notice we are strangling them and their children. Must go now. Have to check my Monaco bank accounts..
najib you copy kucing. I had monaco account first bah. My friend john Howard also help me launder money to Australia. I give him advice on tongkat ali. I expert at this , aso curi ringgit, and sapu orang. My new wife know this.
Dear bro dayak love taib, I also agree with what you say …… we the dayaks especially the Iban really loyal to the leader no matter what's …… most of the Ibans vote for BN candidate ….. even though they don't like the BN candidate, angry with the candidate as long as they are a BN candidate most of our old voters vote for BN candidate …… that's why BN candidate always win ……
salah sapa….no any one fault…but its a choice…dayak,the majority of the voters wants b.n and taib….can anyone do a thing….nothing…..talk sampai…kencing or tahi kambing jaadi bulat pun dayak unti b.n,taib jadi c.m…..what can you say…hate me.if we talk we talk based on facts…..now what the fact in sarawak…taib is c.m….yes…b.n wins all the seats contested…..especially in dayak and rural areas….why???????…..these area are predominantly dayak/natives…well the vote seems to swing to b.n….its their choice…..no yours and mine….we don't control all the voting pattern….they the dayak control it…no guns were pointed to their head to forced them…they vote voluntarily…..
did old dayak/natives (aged older than 100 years) in the rural area vote for BN too? check the voters' registry .. hike into the village … some of them have been long dead. funny, they still vote.
how about the nicely-timed blackouts during vote count?
how about the police/military threats or intimidation on villagers?
how about the non-friendly media personnel not getting boats/helicopters during days leading up the end of voting?
how about opposition leaders being harassed when giving speeches in public?
sagan knows the BN rulebook. play by the book and financial rewards at the very least will come. who in history will give up power and riches voluntarily. if only people are more enlightened … sigh
SR is beginning to show its creative writing skills. Where did you get your source that Dato Jacob own a petrol station? He never own a petrol station ask PETRONAS. I know the owner ..its a big joke!!! Your report is totally absolutely misleading. Readers beware what is reported.
opp! how many more are there!
Taib the greatest thief of them all.
Tearing down the Sarawak jungle well know land of horn-bill ! Scandal- Taib's Day light Land robbery ,Corruption and money laundering, So Dayak , Orang Ulu and other Indigenous tribe in Sarawak should not be afraid of their BN / UMNO governments ! Taib's and Najib's and their BN & UMNO's Government should be afraid of their people !Politic of development is "Renewable" but our properties are irreplaceable .for the coming PRU13 voted out the BN & UMNO
taib jahat lah..taib perompak kah….malar ajak comment taib…sagan….semua org kenak complaint….apa sebenarnya tok….kenak kah kitak dayak sik gundi orang lain….jangan agik gundi b.n…ajak….jangan….gunji ajak…parti cap kapal…parti cap unta,atau parti cap langkau..asal jangan gundi b.n…undah agik bah…mun sik…complaint taib tok taib ia…sagan tok sagan ia…jangan gundi sidak b.n habis crita…tok…dayak juak bodoh….ada utak sik pakai.pakai utak kali tok boleh kah sik mun sik pakai utak gunti kali tok….taib gan b.n menang…jangan agik complaint….basik bah no point agik…jangan comment agih…sah dayak love taib…daayak love b.n….dayak complaint ajak mulut tapi undi tetap b.n…..jadi…memang benar dayak love taib sampai mati, taib di dalam kubur pun dayak undi….masuk neraka pun dayak undi….tok dayak bodoh…
apa apa blogg kah…sik guna dayak majority undi b.n jadi unti taib….paloi sia juak…..sasau sia juak….nang patut cina manggil dayak lakkia…orang dari hutan sik pandei pikir….kuno….nak cakap apa….let's see who win again if b.n and taib and sagan,THE FACT STANDS CLEAR DAYAK LOVE TAIB…NO QUESTION ASKED….DON'T ASK A STUPID QUESTION OR MAKE A STUPID COMMENT…..DAYAK LOVE TAIB….FOR 31YEARS AND IF THIS GE13…B.N WINS AND TAIB WINS….JUST DON'T WATSE TIME…ITS A STUPIDITY.THAT STANDS.
Kudos, Claire and Sarawak Report for all these exposes. Please, please, so an expose on Lihan Jok and his wife Mujan Jok and family and cronies too. They also have been bankrolled to support Taib. Let's get the naked truths on these people who so brazenly are willing to sell their own people and lands down the mighty Baram River in order to gather riches for themselves. And these people call themselves Christians!! Let the righteous people of the Baram learn about these people's dirt.
Correct Lihan Jok and wife are said to have timber concession. area in Ulu Baram.
What a joke on Saturday nite! LOL…Please dont make assumption and accusation as such before you get the evidence from the rightful source. Think and talk.. Stop gossiping and bad mouth about people. Berdosa….Tuhan marah orang yang memfitnah…berdosa..
Hey Native Sarawakians, you can dig your own graves as well as your children and their offsprings if you think your native representatives stand up for you. Stop dreaming anymore and get rid of your stupor. I cannot say it anyway except that you are a stupid race. Common you owe it to your ancestors and your future generation. Vote vote wisely not be bought in by a RM50 anypow.
true true true…korek korek korek…thats the key word orang utan….dayak love taib…and baram love sagan…..blame who but ourselve…say and comment what when thats what everyone wants….
But i don't believe an orang utan is smarter then the native lah.
so u so smart lah….brian pirit….you cannot do a thing to win the election….if native are bought,then they are gila duit…if they vote for sagan…they are stupid…but if they vote opposition…what can the opposition do…..why don't u jadi calon and make sure you win and don't be another sagan for baram…..but then again you will be….who knows before jadi y.b semua janji manis after jadi y.b then the true colour comes out….you no betterlah…..
I didn't say i'm smart, i only said an orang utan[an animal for your info.] cannot be smarter then the natives. Do you think you are smart? Then why challenge me, why not challenge yourself to be a calon yb and maybe you can make a better janji manis then Sagan? People who called other people stupid should first look at themsevles in the Mirror.
people like you talk only but get nothing done….we baramnist get to help sagan t be datuk and yes we get our share cause we work hard to get baram to be under sagan and b.n…we work har…yes we are smart not like you just talker…baram love sagan laah….
If you are smart,how come your yb is in this kind of mess. Are you too smart to clean up his mess or your are just as stupid as the "stupid natives"? I'm not just talking, i was just pointing out orang utan's own stupidity. I asked both of you to look in the mirror first before you call the native stupid and you might find out you are more stupid then the natives you demean! who cares you love sagan but i believe you only love him for his money unless its the other kind of love!
taib jahat lah..taib perompak kah….malar ajak comment taib…sagan….semua org kenak complaint….apa sebenarnya tok….kenak kah kitak dayak sik gundi orang lain….jangan agik gundi b.n…ajak….jangan….gunji ajak…parti cap kapal…parti cap unta,atau parti cap langkau..asal jangan gundi b.n…undah agik bah…mun sik…complaint taib tok taib ia…sagan tok sagan ia…jangan gundi sidak b.n habis crita…tok…dayak juak bodoh….ada utak sik pakai.pakai utak kali tok boleh kah sik mun sik pakai utak gunti kali tok….taib gan b.n menang…jangan agik complaint….basik bah no point agik…jangan comment agih…sah dayak love taib…daayak love b.n….dayak complaint ajak mulut tapi undi tetap b.n…..jadi…memang benar dayak love taib sampai mati, taib di dalam kubur pun dayak undi….masuk neraka pun dayak undi….tok dayak bodoh…
Keep up the good work SR and those who help to bring to light the act of corruption. I am very sure that there are many skeletons in the closet and the more exposure the merrier and to re-inforce the fact that those close to the CM are there for their own interest and stuff the people they represent. Show to people that you have the balls to do the decent things to kick out the corrupt and let the decent people run Sarawak. There are many decent Sarawakians in and out of the country willing to contribute and not take take take.
my goodness, its worst than the Mafia. Talk about Nepotism!!! Sagans you are crooks just like your family before you. Winnie you are a ………..b and hypocrite
We should vote such politician out the next 24 hours!!!
Everything must hide with Wife’s name, eh!! Very funny but creative how BN Crony Capitalism works lah!!!
Same goes to James Masing another Dayak Traitor follow that Yakub Dungu style, also use wife name CORINNE BUA NYIPA as director enjoy get big Debolotment projeks lah
UMNO, Taib must be very proud that these Dayak BN goons very clever learning new tricks huh! Keep on feeding bribing them easy money!
Looks like BN Dayak goons common slogan is: “Behind every Dayak YB, check their wife big fat accounts!”
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A. Maklumat Syarikat: :
Company Name : UNTANG JAYA SDN. BHD.
Address : LOT 345, TINGKAT 2 BANGUNAN MARA KAPIT
Postcode : 96800
Town : KAPIT
State: SARAWAK
D. Maklumat Ahli Lembaga Pengarah:
Bil Nama Warganegara Jawatan
1.BANGSA ANAK UNTANG MALAYSIA PENGARAH URUSAN
2.CORINNE BUA NYIPA MALAYSIA PENGARAH
3.RHEINELD MINOR AK. PANYAU MALAYSIA PENGARAH
4.SALIM ANAK PAI MALAYSIA PENGARAH
H.Maklumat Projek:
Bil Tajuk Tarikh Anugerah Nilai (RM) Klien
1. Pembinaan , Penaiktarafan dan Pembaikpulihan Sekolah-Sekolah dan Asrama di Negeri Sarawak RM
2. Merekabentuk, Membina, Membekal, Menyiap dan Menyelenggara Set Janakuasa Sekolah di Kawasan Luar Bandar bagi Pakej Kapit, Sarawak RM
3. Projek Membina & Menyiapkan Jalan Raya Dari Rumah Kuta/Ugap Ke SK Rantau Panjai, Kapit 11-08-2010 RM 56,866,703.60 JABATAN KERJA RAYA SARAWAK
4. Membekal Diesel, Mengoperasi Serta Menyelenggara Set Janakuasa Di Sekolah-Sekolah Kawasan Luar Bandar, Negeri Sarawak Bagi Pakej Kapit 1 28-06-2010 RM 33,955,470.40 KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN MALAYSIA (BAHAGIAN PEROLEHAN DAN PENGURUSAN ASET)
5. Cdgn Mbina & Menyiapkan Kabin Bilik Darjah, Kabin Rumah Guru, Perabot Dan Peralatan Di Sarawak – Projek Pakej Ransangan Ekonomi Ke – 2 ( Pakej 6 ) 16-09-2009 RM 13,246,470.00 KEMENTERIAN PELAJARAN MALAYSIA (BAHAGIAN PEMBANGUNAN)
6. Construction and Completion of the Proposed R.C Cargo Wharf at Song, Kapit Division. 15-09-2004 RM
7. Construction and Completion of Proposed One Block Class ‘G’ Flat (7 Units) for Proposed Forest District Office and Enforcement Division, Jalan Kuala Segan, Bintulu Division. Sarawak. 18-04-2003 RM
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Masing believes Taib clean
Borneo Post, June 23, 2011, Thursday
CENTRE OF MEDIA ATTENTION: Reporters crowd around a speaker in the Media Room as Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud delivers his personal statement regarding the investigation by the Swiss Federation into his alleged assets in Switzerland.
KUCHING: Land Development Minister Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing said he believed Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is innocent of all the corruption allegations hurled at him.
The Baleh assemblyman also lauded Taib for being brave enough to tackle the issue head on yesterday.
He said this when asked to comment on Taib’s explanations to the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) yesterday that he does not own a Swiss bank account or assets and investments in Switzerland.
“It is very good for him (Taib) to tackle the issue straight on.
“That is what I expected a leader to do. As a politician you must not hide anything. If you have nothing to hide then go straight on because we are judged by public perception,” Masing said.
Masing added that he was “impressed and satisfied” with the Chief Minister’s answer and he eagerly awaits the Swiss authorities to respond.
“The onus of proof is from the other side,” Masing stressed.
Asked whether the public would be convinced of Taib’s innocence, Masing lamented that members of the public always make judgement based on emotion and not the law.
That, he added, represented one of the toughest obstacles which all politicians have to endure.
“We are not judged by the fine lines of the law. We are judged by allegations, half truths and lies.”
Meanwhile, Second Minister of Finance Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh said what Taib did yesterday was to make it known to the whole world that the graft allegations were unfair to him.
“Of course once the allegation is made and published in the press, not only the image of the Chief Minister but the state government of Sarawak may be tarnished,” he lamented.
Therefore, he added, it was important for Taib to make the statement in DUN to redeem himself and to clear his name.
“I think it is the right thing to do,” Soon Koh said.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister’s statement failed to impress PKR leaders.
State PKR liaison chief and Ba Kelalan assemblyman Baru Bian said it was “quite unfortunate” that Taib’s statement was not put up for debate.
He pointed out that there was no mention of whether the Chief Minister’s letter had been replied to and that PKR would be interested to know what Taib wrote and the reply, if any, to it.
“As it has been reported that this involves MACC, we hope that the whole investigation will continue on in spite of the explanations he (Taib) made in the Dewan…as it is only an explanation. If there is really truth in it, then of course it is of concern to the public at large, especially Sarawakians,” said Baru.
When asked whether the Chief Minister’s denial would help to assuage public concerns, Baru said he did not think so as there was nothing particularly significant about the statement.
“You need to have concrete facts and evidence and decisions made either by the Swiss President or authority of Switzerland, or even from MACC. The report we hear is about an ongoing kind of investigation, so as for now, we’ll leave it as it is.
“Unless they come up with a conclusion, it’s nothing that would wipe out any doubts or anything for that matter.”
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Masing pleads ‘not guilty’ over indigenous displacement
Malaysia Kini, 21 March 2009
Sarawak Land Development Minister James Masing told a tv news channel that he has absolutely no guilt over the displacement of indigenous people caused by the construction of hydro-electric dams in the state.
“I don’t feel guilty. I feel that is the correct way of doing it. I don’t have any guilt feeling for trying to help my people,” said Masing on the Al-Jazeera’s 101 East programme Thursday night.
Host Fauziah Ibrahim had asked Masing if he felt guilty, as a person of indigenous descent, over indigenous people being displaced to make way for economic development.
During the programme, Masing defended the construction of dams, such as the massive Bakun hydroelectric dam and the proposal to build 12 new ones, because the state government was preparing for the future.
“Sarawak has enough energy as it is today. But we must look 20 years down the road. By that time we may not have enough energy. You know very well the cost of fuel (is escalating),” he said.
Masing defends CM
Masing also defended the involvement of Cahaya Mata Sarawak (CMS), a company owned by family members of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud in the construction of the dams.
“The dam constructions are done to legal tenders. The lowest tender gets it. It doesn’t matter if CMS or somebody else. It must be done on tender basis.
“That is very transparent. The international community can take a look at it… it is an open book for everyone to look,” he said.
When Fuziah pointed out that there are numerous cases in which projects were given to companies linked to Taib without open tenders, Masing said: “I was not aware of it”.
Fuziah replied by that the Similajau aluminum smelting plant was given to CMS while the construction of several bridges were awarded to Titanium Management Sdn Bhd, which Taib’s eldest son Mahmud Abu Bekir holds substantial interest in.
‘Everything was transparent’
Even with evidence presented before him, Masing maintained that these awards were given fairly and in accordance with the law.
“We have rules and laws… If there is a decision made by people who have vested interest, there are laws which does not allow it. It is illegal for people in authority to give authority with vested interest.
“All these things have been done through open tenders. They are transparent,” he said.
“In the case of the aluminum smelter, there were a few companies that were asked to bid for it. I know. And the best company gets it.
“Unfortunately, it was given to a company where the authority has some interest. But it is done legally,” he added.
‘I’m a friend of the chief minister’
Meanwhile, Fuziah also scrutinised Masing over his links to Taib. Masing admitted that he was an “ally” to Taib, but gave a less outright answer when asked if he was Taib’s “crony”.
“I don’t think (so). Crony means friends. I am a friend of the chief minister,” he said.
On whether there was “Crony Capitalism” going on in Sarawak, Masing replied in the negative because no one has been brought to book over such matters.
“I don’t think so. If there is, those who deal in it would be dealt by the law. Until today, there is nothing. One must assume there is no cronyism as such,” he said.
On who would keep the chief minister and his family accountable, Masing said the electorate would.
“I believe the voters in Sarawak are a very intelligent group of people,” he added.
Malaysia Boleh so everthing boleh in Bolehland
Read here – http://fpaaikklb.blogspot.com/2009/07/company-ext…
More than 300million of Basic Infrastructure project for our rural community delay and now get funny extension of another 9 month by the ministry and yet get another new project from the same ministry.
All state minister and YBs silent over the matter…NKRA? Still Boleh
Fuck BN ministers, makam $$$$ one after another, this is really disguest to hear the chipai news every day, nothing good for the people ,only know how to rob and steal the country properties.
hahahha…baram love sagan…dayak love taaib…sagan love duit…but still baram vote sagan…dayak vote taib and sagan love duit….who to blame blame the baramist….orang orang baram….we are to be blame .we do nothing…not even a vote…just don't but no…comes election undi also…and after that comment and complaint…sapa bodoh…orang baram…sap unti…orang baram…just like,the egg and the chicken case….orang baram unti and orang baram complaint….you get what you deserved……nothing is there if orang baram don't want it…lets not be stupid……saying we don't want but comes election it is there……orang baram….jangan complaint lagi if you do nothing…enough of all this comment and talk…buang masa and make our tekak haus…..
This is the kind of dirty candidate that the BN is fielding for the next GE. Lets boot him and the rest of BN candidates out. Vote for Pakatan Rakyat!
pakatan rakyat pun sama lah….before jadi calon semua tak bagus kita tolong rakyat baram…jadi calon rampas semua…..dari ajang…abit…sagan…semua tak bagus sapa lagi bagus….boleh jadi calon…tapi lepas menang semua sama.belians sudah habis….tanah sudah habis….anak perempuan kena jual and laki laki jadi kuli….ini lah gara gara…orang baram…..
Talking about yourself now cos we are not like what you have just said. We don't jual our anak perempuan neither are we kaki judi.I suppose thats what happen to you when you love sagan so much?
p.r is a snake…..a lapar snake…..b.n and taib and umno is a buaya….sudah kenyang…..i prefer the buaya……not to p.r semua ular lapar….buaya buaya b.n sudah kenyang…we undi…p.r….they will sapu semua habis…becauise they have not get all the wealth……now baik…belum dapat…sudah dapat pun sama…better buaya we know….sleeping and full….then a lapar ular which will belit and eat everything as they are nothing to eat in sarawak any more……
I think all BN ybs are corrupt and abused their power. Why? Because the Kepala (pm, cm & menteri besar) led them (bn ybs) by bad example.
Then all govt servants esp the high ranking officers also corrupt like their leaders.
In fact all govt bodies are corrupt! As predicted malaysiaL will bankrupt before year 2020.
In order to save Malaysia from bankruptcy all malaysians should vote out BN govt in the coming GE13.
Let the Baram people vote out BN/Dugau this coming election. He has accumulated wealth so much from belian wood and Dema Tega Company. Wake up all the Baram people!
Dungau Sagan was the co-owner (with 10 other YB's) of Sebiras Plantation Sdn.Bhd which later Changed name to Fortune Plantation Sdn. Bhd. and sold to a Mr Yong Foh Choi of Sea Link who later sold the PL to an investor from overseas. The 11 BN YB's (Effendi Crocodile being one of them) made million each selling the land of the poor villagers of Long Loyang and Long Batan in Tinjar. In return he gave them zing, zing, zing !
This is really unacceptable!!1 I dont believe this!!
Please do not use english swear words when replying. It is not our culture.. We are even careful to call it Miri Port, not Baram Port. Why copy the British in their ways and stoop down to their level. Words like B and F should be left out.
Baram Port caught our attention and can you keep track of the number of scandals in high places that came out of that particular Port with a loaded 'B' that did the "F" thing like the many generations have done before? Someone said they are worst than prostitutes cause a prostitute may corrupt an individual's morality, but corrupting society with lies, deceits, and whitewashing is as hideous as it gets. We have rights of refusal to enter certain ports as much as ports have rights for refusal to allow entry within their territorial waters. So what the deal before Baram Port?
Who said we are copying the British? We are just using their language which is universal and i dare say you are wrong for saying that we stoop down to their level. By the way what level are you talking about? Which and who's country is more corrupt, Britain the British country or Malaysia the malaysian country?
Brian, baramkid say we copy british talk. dis kid correct. their scum speak this kind of word. not universal spoken. only uneducated and army say these words. You use dis language U oso scum level. All westen country corrupt. You want coment like dis U read and learn first. I no like what Sagan do, but such words oso bad.
What do you say when we malaysian use the word, boboh,palui,kurang ajar,puk…. etc when describing other people? Are those not swear words as well? Whose level are we stooping to when we use those Malay words? I do not condone the use of such words here and i do not use those words myself but somebody else did and i was only pointing that out to them.I did asked someone to look themselves in the mirror first before they call other people stupid!
So tell me the difference between the british and malay swear words?
Sure enough Dema Tega is Directed by Sagan’s wife Winnie, his brother Peter and his sister in law Roseline, married to another brother, Dominic.. What about the other scroungers????
Dato Jacob Sagan, Malaysia’s Deputy Minister for International Trade and Industry, please become prime minister. Malaysia needs you to make it Malaysia Boleh. The rich are getting richer in the developed world. Malaysia must copy and overtake by 2020. YOU ARE our MAN. Go YB go
baram is sagan and sagan is baram…let's see what happen after this in baram and sarawak…if not just go to bakun and get ourself all drowned there cos nothing is going to happen…..
Fellow Sarawakians!!
Please wake up!!!
very sad!!!
We have been conned!!
Well Done Jacob and Winnie…you are a darling and love to see the dayak getting rich instead of "FOREIGNERS".(bread & Butter citizens).stealing our timber. Wan Ullok has had his fair share and so too did Leornard Linggi Jugah. NO BIG DEAL here!!
jacob has a patronas patrol station at 13 miles , opposites Road Transport Department 0ffice kuching serian road. It's manage by his brother Peter Usang Sagan and his wife Usun Stewart Ngau
tantan…SO what? Love to see dayaks operate the service station instead of Melanun's Foreign BOMOH!!
Melanun's Bomoh from Indonesia operates a shell service station at our expense.Can we get rod of this bloody Indonesian BOMOH employed by the Melanaun Thief Minister??
we from baram voted for sagan…not sagan won without being voted…why so much cmplaint about our beloved sagan……..you know he was such a poor man before all this and we voted him to be our calon so taht he can get lots of wealth to help him to help us and also his family…,.biasalah…you all also do the same…..who don't help his family…..by the way….its us in baram who wants him there…comes election alll will go and work for him and he always gives us so much money….true or not and he also sponser so many of us to go left right centre…true or not…..hahahahahahaha….we want him to win because we all want him to be our y.b…..so leave him alone…if you don't like him anymore get him out habis crita…..we dayak and native all sama mentality….hate our calon that we vote but who vote him…..all of us…if we complaint…we are the fools…..we are just like master bean……all f us sarawakians….fools from mars…..
korek alrite…alrite…baram and bakun banyak babi hutan…..pangan babi hutan on the way to bakun and beers….driving to bakun is the cool and best life ever…..y….complaint so much….you all want also to be like sagan king….taib king tiong king….pek king…they have all the timber….what to do nadsip dia orang….we all got no nasip….e
who don't want to be tycoon…..
i also bah…but i only sell babi hutan and pangang…..what to do…..nasip…..jual babi…..ada peragai babi…ada jual babi…nilah nasip kita dia sarawak….tapi nasip sudah nasip….undi p.r pun sama…..pusak napok kuku…kel;ak jadi kerajaan…semua jadi tycoon…rakyat cam kita tok….masih juak sama….masih juak ditidas dirompak….apa yang ada kita…hanya jual babi.
Jack….if the allegations are true I must congratulate you……A deputy international trade at fed level and doing successful business at state or more correctly at own area level.
Suggest you don't go for parliament any more to concentrate on your family belian and construction businesses.
I think it is only fair that your family is involved in belian logging so that you can with confidence sell these timber at "International" market.
A sign of progress for the orang ulu…..
Still water runs deep…….nowadays very few people can hide their business activities any more….sorry
Syabas Datuk,,,,part of what Idris Jala says…Economic Transformation…..
Taib-given businesses blind the clear-sighted Jacob, and also upset the pleas of the just.
For the love of money is the root of all evils.
Remember also that by justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.
Before he tears Baram down voters must make the change for the sake of present & future generation.
patrick sibat…..thanks goodness for sagan to be tycoon…..well….when its your turn,i want you to be tycoon too….lets us alll from baram be tycoon….why shuld the fochow be tycoons on our expense…our forest our timber….our balak,keruing belian meranti…..even our durian and engkabang they sapu….now you tell me….did me and you jadi tycoon,we should you know,,,we should…..its ours….from our great great grandfather….what we get…….taib and fochow get it all.if my fellow baramist get it…i telll you i be so happy…even if i don't you know why…at least its my people who get it…..now if you sincerte….i p-ray God bless you and do buy my new batch of kasam babi hutan……nice and fatty…..yum yum yum….cook with duan ubi or rebong…..you wilol have anothert plate….God bless us all from baram and belaga……
Sarawakians, wake up!
Help yourselves by uniting against corruption, otherwise it will rob and impoverish you and your future generation!
God helps those who help themselves. U have nothing to lose and everything to gain.