Eye Of The Needle – Ibrahim Mahmud
Posted Saturday, February 4th, 2012
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Ibrahim Mahmud - an honest policeman sucked into the family corruption?
One very old adage is that you can’t bring your material wealth into the next world.
Plenty of ancient cultures hoped otherwise, packing fabulous riches into the tombs and pyramids of greedy past rulers. But it was the tomb raiders who had the last laugh on them.
More recent sufferers from excessive greed have invested in cryogenic freezing technology, in the hope they can buy immortality. Or they have simply supposed they could set up a dynasty that would always revere them by passing on the money to their children.
However, sooner or later, those children or grandchildren will succumb to the consequences of unearned wealth, plunging into fast lives, alcohol, drugs and despair. They will certainly forget to revere the old money-grabbers, who supplied their original riches.
Did Taib think of these things as he buried his brother this week?
Ibrahim’s wealth
Ibrahim Mahmud, like all his ex-colleagues, could have retired to his police pension. After all, unlike most of the other Taib family scroungers and hangers on, he had at least pursued a respectable career.
However, what was good enough for others turned out not to be enough for the brother of the CM!
Of course, if Taib had run the country less corruptly, then that police pension could have been a lot more generous. But, rather than sharing, the Taibs have always grabbed resources that should have gone to the state to pay for such improvements for honest working people.
Harder for a rich man to enter heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle?
Investigations by Sarawak Report have already detailed some of the corrupt methods by which Taib enriched his now dead brother, at the expense of the people of Sarawak and his former fellow state employees.
We showed how the Chief Minister abused his power to secretively hand vast areas of state and NCR territories to companies owned by Ibrahim at nominal prices.
This meant that Dayaks were thrown off their lands and their forests were cut down without compensation to them and without any benefit to the state, all so that Ibrahim could sell on the concessions for a massive profit and make himself rich before he died.
Masretus
One of these shoddy deals was Masretus Plantations. Leaked Land & Survey Department details show that Taib awarded a massive concession of NCR land in Sungai Retus to a company owned by Ibrahim, Masretus Plantations, for a mere half million ringgit premium in 2008.
Sustainable palm oil?
Yet, within just six weeks Ibrahim had flogged off the 750 hectares to a major oil plan company, Tradewinds, for the dramatically increased sum of seven and a half million ringgit!
Not many police officers make that sort of profit from a month’s work. But then, not many police officers get offered that sort of opportunity!
The scandal is that not only did the State of Sarawak receive so little from this valuable deal (money that could have been channelled into better pensions for government workers), but the rightful owners of these lands were deliberately kept ignorant of what had gone on.
By the time the dwellers of Sugai Retus had discovered that Taib had handed their rightful territories to enrich his brother, the courts told them they had passed the time period for complaining!
It is episodes like this that clearly show how Taib has enriched his family by impoverishing the people and the state.
Meanwhile, the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil would do well to consider on what grounds it granted Tradewinds its membership status, given that environmental and social responsibility are the key criteria? Why should international buyers of palm oil be duped into believing that the product of Tradewinds did nothing to damage the environment or peoples’ lives?
Amgreen Plantation
Equally greedy and corrupted was the even bigger money-making deal that Ibrahim made out of the company Amgreen Plantation. Sarawak Report has exposed how Taib handed no less than 5,000 hectares to this outfit, all under the guise of making a donation to the Sarawak Foundation, which is supposed to make grants to students. For this reason the company was originally called Yayasan Sarawak Plantation.
But, in fact, behind this front of providing some public good, Taib made sure that the lion’s share of the company was owned by Ibrahim. This is all made clear by the details of yet another huge profit-making sale, this time to the company Kumpulan Firma Bhd just last year.
The details of the sale, which were publicised on the Malaysian Stock Exchange show that Firma bought 80% of a company called Network Jaya for RM21 million. The stock exchange documents explain that the reason for the purchase was that Network Jaya owned Victoria Square Plantations, which in turn owned 65% of Amgreen Plantations!
Ibrahim Mahmud owned 50% of Network Jaya, which was valued at over RM20 million, because of its stake in Amgreen Plantation!
Since Ibrahim turns out to own over 50% of Network Jaya that meant a fat pay out of RM11million. So, how much profit had he made? Our leaked Land & Survey Department records show that Taib had only asked for a premium of RM3.7 million for the whole concession of 5,000 hectares. Network Jaya would have only paid roughly half of that.
So, Ibrahim and his partners had paid under RM2million to the State for land they then sold for over RM20 million (and they got to keep 20% of it)! This excerpt below from our Land & Survey Department documents shows the detail of the corrupt deal. It also shows how Ibrahim’s company Victoria Square Development received further land in a separate handout from brother Taib!
Amgreen's 5000 hectares had been offered at just RM3.7 premium to the state. Note that Amgreen shows the same address and same phone numbers as Ibrahim Mahmud's company Victoria Plantation. So much for it being run by Yayasan Sarawak!
So, who lost out to make Ibrahim so rich? Well, the owners of the land, students and the taxpayers of Sarawak did, of course.
Now, he will be passing this wealth on to his family it is assumed. That should make his son Ahmad Ibrahim, currently one of Taib’s political favourites, very compliant. His corrupted old uncle is expected to encourage ‘the people of Mukah’ to ‘select’ this nephew to stand as their BN candidate at the next election.
SR suggests that the people of Mukah should consider whether they really want to continue to be robbed by another generation of the corrupted Taib family. It is their absolute right to chose someone else!
Sarawak Pulp Industries
Of course there have been plenty of other means for enriching family members like Ibrahim. None perhaps more outrageous than Sarawak Pulp Industries.
This is yet another Taib backed enterprise, supported by the State owned STIDC. Sarawak Pulp Industries has been given well over 10,000 hectares of oil palm, again for less than half a million ringgit when it could eventually be sold for tens of millions!
Sarawak Pulp Industries was also commissioned to construct the huge Bintulu Similajau Industrial Park, supported by public money. The public face of the company was Taib crony Ting Peck Kiing. So who owns the major shareholder, Hanib Corportation?
Guess who owns Hanib Corporation!
It will come as no surprise that a major shareholder of this massive state company, which has benefited from such vast concessions and contracts is none other than Ibrahim Mahmud.
And look who else has an even larger stake – Taib’s own daughter Hanifah! The other equally major shareholder is Taib’s daughter in law Anisa, wife of playboy son Sulaiman. When is this milking of the Sarawak State going to come to an end and when is the MACC going to do something about it ?
Family Affair - the Hanib Corporation is the owner of Sarawak Pulp Industries
Cats Radio
One of the main reasons that Taib has got away with all this enrichment of his own family at the expense of Sarawak has been that he has taken care to control all the papers and radio in the State, so nobody has been able to hear or read about what he has been getting up to.
Take the example of Cats Radio. This is the only private radio station that Taib, in his capacity as Chief Minster, has agreed to give a licence to. Of course, it is easy to see how he controls what it said on the public radio, because it is paid for by the state.
But, what of this private radio station that has been so lucky to be the only recipient of a licence? Well Cats Radio is owned by the company Kristal Harta.
So who owns Cats Radio?
And, lo and behold, the owner of Kristal Harta is none other than Hanib Corporation! So, Sarawak’s only “private’ and ‘independent’ radio station is run by Taib’s daughter, daughter-in-law and Uncle Ibrahim, who postured as a Director of the Radio Station as he did as a Director of Sarawak Pulp Industries.
Private and Independent?
Ibrahim Mahmud could have been buried with a great deal more dignity this week if he had not been dragged into such filthy corruption and had remained instead an honest policeman charged with the duty of upholding the law.
Meanwhile, the truth at last about the Taibs can be read on the internet… and listened to on Radio Free Sarawak, which has declined to apply for a corrupted licence from Taib’s Sate of Sarawak!
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well leave him alone,let the maker deal with him as for now,dayak love taib and you guys cannot do anything about it.say what you want report what you want broadcast what you want but dayak still love taib and will continue to make him c.m,until God take him back and the maker make jabu,c.m.
Only stupid fools like you love Taib! You will forever be stray dogs waiting for fallen crumbs because you prefer to be such, by letting a minority dominate your majority group and rule over you grabbing the lion's share of the economic pie! Worse still, you allow them to grab, steal, plunder, rape and destroy the state what should have been yours and all eligible citizens. Stupid fools, NUMBSKULL idiots like you will be slaves and laughing stock of the melanuns forever!
dont disturb the dead,we all follow him sooner or later,until then lets do what we have to.i said dayak love taib and wwill continue to do so.
s.r is a hasut machine for NGO who wants a part of the economic share hired by multinational conglomerate form u.s or europe.its nothing more.
you caan hasut by s.r or radio broadcast or whatever the dayak are not listening or following your propoganda.most of the dayk are working for taib and b.n directly and indirectly,so what are you guys doing about it.
nothing because the dayak would not listen to you guys.
If you put aside SR commentary and objectively look at the facts they presented, you may find it difficult to dispute the fact that a retired policeman's path to business 'success' has been rather incredible. Of course Taib did not have anything to do with that..and with that we all just keep sucking lemons.
dont disturb the dead,we all follow him sooner or later,until then lets do what we have to.i said dayak love taib and wwill continue to do so.
We are not disturbing the dead. We are just reminding taib that when he dies he will be burried naked in a six by four stinking hole and tahts about the only thing he will bring with him. That goes to you as well taib's lover boy! Hope that you be burried next to him cos it seems you two are inseparable.
All things must pass. And the passing of the deceased and the departed seem always to remind those alive and living that no amount of material riches can be carried with them when they're six feet under. What they leave behind are only their name, tombstone, and good deeds. Their money will be enjoyed by others. May they rest in peace.
As for the living, may you repent and find in your heart to do the right thing so that your deeds will long be remembered after you've departed. Curses will turn you over in your grave. It's your life and your choice. No August House will help you in the matter.
To hell with the devil!!!
David love Taib is a cyber trooper of Taib;'s
s.r respect the dead,they have done all they can as mortal let them meet the maker and The maker decide if what they do is right or wrong.
don behave like God,we are all mortal even if what i do is not pleasing to God let him decide,dont decide for God.
like in sarawak who to be c.m is up to the dayak to decide not any other race for they make up almost 70per cent of the population.
yes s.r and p.r wants sarawak so badly but its the dayak to decide.like God decide if a man is good or wicked after death.so lets respect whats not within our scope of duty.stop report which dishonour a dead man.he is no longer with us.
like i said,why focus on taib dead family,there are other good men who struggle to bring reforms to sarawak why dont you guys do a report on him like antony belon or tajem or moggie.stop the slagging of dead man.let focus on the land of the living.the dayak and sarawak.
no one is perfect on this earth we try to do our best as we think best,to judge is for The maker.
may ibrahim mahmud rest in peace and God bless him like any mortal.
as for nw the dayak love his brother taib
s.r respect the dead,they have done all they can as mortal let them meet the maker and The maker decide if what they do is right or wrong.
Every day a new item of corruption by Taib and his family. We must have a larger share! Happy to have mine via the Israeli National Bank in Singapore.
Keep on putting the same comments, the so-called dayak loves taib. Are you one of BN cybertroopers that receive hefty sums of money from Taib? *lol*
Definitely, Dayak love taib is hiding behind his computer screesn and laughing away being paid by Taib or rather tax payers money!! Also today in The Borneo post the headline screams : Taib claim he does not interfere in barisan nasional component party internal affairs!! Waht bullshit. Taib is behind the infighting in SUPP and SDPD by secretly funding from behind!!! he is trying to split the two party that way!!! What bullshiot he say. he must have imagine people are stupid!! Really he lives in a make beleive world!!
If Dayak loves Taib, remember this: You are not only loving him, you are loving every butt that he has kissed in the last 31 years.
Sad as the wrong ones died but at least there is ONE MELANUN less in Sarawak.
Watch Dog..you are correct. I also want my master to share and now he has realised but he is too ashamed to admit and because of his pride,things remain as there are. I did tell him before it is too late.
CHANGE ur mind & ego taik mahmud, SARAWAKIAN didn't want u as OUR LAND chief monster – ENOUGH!! As pictures showed above you're now not even can "stand straight"!… you even scared to wear white outfit?…wonder if your cream-coloured Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow or lying on your sheets of $$$$$ will be your "rest place"…
orang sarawak..yes,my master is too greedy.Actually he is having sleepless night thinking about it and he is too scared now. He wants to share but scared to be rebuked by his sisters.
Com Taib,let us share before it is too late and you see your brother,no millions are buried with him.
Share Taib share and by sharing you might be forgiven. Ha ha ha
btw, is that mean gateway apartments in kuching is belong to this chief monster & family too? please list down all the hotel @ public accommodation that owned to this chief monster & family business – WE DON'T WANT TO SUPPORT @ STAY IN!
aborium,you are dead wrong.taib won via b.n,which represent the dayak leaders who are supported by dayak voters.
unless you can change this,its all about dayak and their ardent support for taib and b.n.
anang gelawan printah…..you hear that in the longhouse and yes they are write.
problem with NGOs are they have their own agenda.
s.r agenda is to put taib down but they put the cart before the horse,they should educate the dayak,give they more scholarship to study in u.k especially in political science in LSE,so that we have credible dayak leaders.
so that they know how to do reformation for the dayak community at large.
if s.r and the NGOs really wants to help the dayak but its not the dayak but the orang utan they are more interested in and blaming taib for everything.look you can bring the horse to the water but you cannot force it to drink the water.same with the dayak,you can say whatever you want about taib all over sarawak but you cannot forced all the dayak to hate taib.
you can bring and conjure all sort of ideas to them but they cannot understand your mesage because they love taib.and they see all the dayak educated leaders like masing jabu mawan,all the dayak professors in the public universities all are allianing to taib and jabu.
even famous jounalists like lester malayi or churchill drem are closely affiliated to jabu.so how.
if you want to help the dayak,then get lots of scholarship for dayak to study for free in the u.k under all the NGOs to help the dayak.if you really want sarawak to change as you know that dayak are the majority in sarawak.
mere reports of taib this and that will not change our love for him,because we need him to survive.he is our leader and he help us and our children for higher education.
so please,you are not giving us free education in LSE or queen mary's or oxbridge or anywhere,why wants to tell us dayak who to vote for and how we dayak are to rule our country.we want to work with taib.he is our horse who pull the cart especially with the muslim federal gvernment.let him be.
we dont want to be force to rotate our c.m.
we just like it this way and have been doing so for the past 31years.
well,its really up to the dayak to whom they want to be c.m,not just a dayak love taib but dayak love taib,plural.
DAYAK…MAJORITY OF THE DAYAK LOVE TAIB NOT JUST A SMALL MINORITY.
Butt KIssing Dayak
Tell you what dayak loves taib
you can kiss his butt
till death do you part
but don't spew your words with it
'cause they sure smell shit.
Anang gelawan perintah? Only stupid fools talk like that! We, the people are the BOSS! We are the ones who is the perintah of the day. We are the ones to decide who to be there and who to fire! If the majority are clever or smart people, we get a good government. But if the majority are stupid or foolish, we get a bad and rotten government! It's just as simple as that! You better bring your anang gelawan perintah mentality and lousy attitude of yours back to your cave.
I am sad ! I am sad to read so much gibberish written by a fellow brother in this forum.
Dayaks..please do not give up hope and you people will win the next GE.. Yes my master is greedy but he does that before he passed out of this world. I am also scared if my master passed out,di ni kah aku cari makai?
Now I realised that I am supporting Taib because of my priok nasi..naka bini,ucu and paying for my loan instalments.
Now you have uncovered your true face and show your true color! It's scums like you who are the destroyers of our land in collaboration with Tahi the devil! Bloody shameless, greedy lot with no moral!
Blunt speaker..Yes,yes,yes what you said is true. I am ashamed of myself too but what to do,cari makan 'jang?
I hope that dayaks must unite and win the next election. Mari kitai UBAH!!
Liar! You and taib share the same priok and nasi.
Most things come out in the wash like history unfolds. It's those in the know that helps too. Keep going. For Sarawakians who can vote get your heads screwed up.
Malaysia has neither transparency (non-corruption) nor real human rights, neither freedom of the media nor true democracy.
The blacks are only 14% of US population, if Obama can be US President, an Indian can be a Malaysian PM…think about it! How tragically you’ve been treated.
What has the ex-Malaysian PM got, to be proud of? Has he left a Malaysian legacy respected, successful and uncorrupted like his next door Singapore? True religion, humanity and morality have no room for plunder & racism. It’s only him glorifying himself, the World Community hasn’t a rice grain of respect for him. Lim Guan Eng is a million times more respected.
Friends told me, the Sarawak CM and his cronies live in giant mansions, and everywhere you go you see Naim’s ( Hamed Sepawie) big projects. For 45 years thousands of shiploads of timber & palm oil left Sarawak…. If this not corruption & crime, what is?
Since Sarawakians are so self-centred, gullible, gutless, and resigned to looking up to a super-wicked criminal and his cronies. Many are now resigned to the hopelessness that prevails in Sarawak.
Let God deal with them now, in life, in heaven or hell. Let God’s curse come upon them sooner or later. Taib, family members, Hamed Sepawie, Awang Tengah, Asfia Nassar, Len Talip. Jabu, James Masing………..the list is endless. You have stolen billions and destroyed the welfare of millions. You haven’t experienced hell’s fire yet, by then it’s too late.
The money and wealth of Sarawak stolen by Taib and his family members, his lapdog ministers and cronies is more than enough to make Sarawak a fully developed state, and eradicate the prevailing poverty after half a century of BN rotten rule, and not to mention those stolen by the federal GOVT! Similarly, the same is happening to Sabah! What should have been the richest states, even richer than Singapore and Brunei, are robbed to an extent that they are reduced to be the poorest states with rampant poverty still avail! Should we allow this to continue on any further? Only stupid fools would allow such broad daylight robbery to persist on till our beloved state is totally ruined and bankrupt! All the natural resources are 100% ours, including the oil and gas, nobody can dispute that, if you study the Malaysian agreement prudently. How come we are getting a meager, lousy, stingy 5% all these years till hundreds of billions have been stolen or siphoned by federal GOVT? THE RAPE AND PLUNDER MUST STOP! WAKE UP SARAWAK AND SABAH BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
Yes Bro’, the figures don’t tally. With so much of natural resources, yet we are being reduced to be the 4th poorest state in Malaysia after years of plunder and squander by the present government. Much of the riches have gone in the hands of a few politicians, their close relatives, friends and business partners. If you compare their total personal net worth which runs into billions of Ringgit with the total population of Sarawak which is slightly over 2.4 million, you get a clearer picture of the lopsidedness in wealth distribution. You don’t need to be a Math wizard to figure out that if the distribution is fairer or even, every family in Sarawak would literally be a millionaire!
But sadly, this isn’t the case and Sarawak is a story of greed, corruption, leakages, foul play, abuse of power and the legal system, and a tyrannical rule. After half a century of so-called ‘development’, we can’t even have a decent highway linking Kuching to Miri, let alone the other basic infrastructure, facilities, and amenities which many rural areas are still lacking. Still we stand in awe at the Petronas Twin Towers as a firm testimony of where our riches have gone to!
Some foreign NGOs want Sarawak to remain backward, primitive
http://muluview.blogspot.com/2012/02/some-foreign…
Yes Bro', the figures don't tally. With so much of natural resources, we are reduced to being the 4th poorest state in Malaysia after years of plunder and squander by the present government. Much of the riches have gone in the hands of a few politicians, their close relatives, friends and business partners. If you compare their total personal net worth which runs into billions of Ringgit with the total population of Sarawak which is slightly over 2.4 million, you get a clearer picture of the lopsidedness in wealth distribution. You don't need to be a Math wizard to figure out that if the distribution is fairer or even, every family in Sarawak would literally be a millionaire!
But sadly, this isn't the case and for the past 31 years Sarawak has been a story of greed, corruption, leakages, foul play, abuse of power and the legal system, and a tyrannical rule. After half a century of so-called 'development', we can't even have a decent highway linking Kuching to Miri, let alone the other basic infrastructure, facilities, and amenities which many rural areas are still lacking. Still we stand in awe at the Petronas Twin Towers as a firm testimony of where our riches have gone to!
Selling Sarawak by the RinggitSelling Sarawak by the Ringgit
The elite seem to erroneously think that the State belongs to them and only theirs for the taking. They make use of their positions in office, issue threats and legal actions and use underhand tactics to maintain their power and status quo over the people. And they come up with brilliant PR ideas like the hard selling of Sarawak being a developed state by 2023 (?) on the promise of SCORE. At what expense and develop for whom you may ask? And who gains? A shoot straight answer: The Corporations! And what about the local people? “Oh, just offer them jobs, if they're qualified, and that will fulfill our social obligation to the people”. And “yes, they’ll be trained to serve as obedient servants of the Corporations. That’s what they do best.”
Then suddenly it dawned upon them that we don't have the kind of manpower (numbers and skill-sets) to make it happen. So they hurriedly went to India to import skilled foreign workers just like what they did in the palm oil, timber, and construction sectors. If there is grave oversight in planning, they're to be squarely blamed for wearing shoes bigger than the size of their feet! They're are not even bothered by the social and cultural problems that such a huge importation of foreigners would bring and their likely adverse effects on the local population. It’s the expats quick fix to a long-standing kindred issue.
Through the looking glass, it’s history repeating itself. But to them it’s business-as-usual and the bigger the project, the bigger the pie for themselves. And to add salt to injury, the rest of us would have to pay for own folly for them to use venture and vulture capitalists, angels and devils, or the selling of Gov’t stocks and debentures to finance the projects. And who’s to pay for all this? Your money and mine. What if we can’t pay? Simple, increase taxation, call EPF on a 911 for bail-outs under the guise of a JV, or contra with government assets or estates under their control. Who cares if it’s a burden on the people? After all, the paying does not come from their own pockets but using other people’s money – that’s the name of the corporate-government elitist game and its unholy union. And to break the camel’s back, ordinary citizens are forced to use public money to unwittingly become passengers in this gravy train led by an ageing, disillusioned and out-of-control locomotive driver. Stop this runaway train before it runs over your land, people and village!
Wake up our Dayak friend. Any government will bring development when in power but in this present government is too corrupt to the core. If all these money are properly channelled your have more development than now. Change this BN government and see the different. Don't believe in their treats. Your penghulu or village head all enjoy themselves but you are so backward
May he rest in peace and can anybody tell me if he managed to bring all the wealth with him or he left with nothing………..
taib is taking all the land of the dayak because the dayak keep voting for him,when will they stop i dont know…i just have to shake my head at this stupidity….and the dayak profess their love for taib by voting for taib and barisan national.
dayak stop loving taib…dont be dayak love taib…..be dayak hate taib,but after every election….its the same old thing for the past 31years…..dayak love taib.stop it dayak…stop dayak love taib…but start dayk hate taib…but why you keep at dayak love taib…are you blind for loving taib…DAYAK LOVE TAIB…should be dayak all hate taib…s.r and p.r should do a better jod at this…..but dayak still prefer taib…stop this dayk…stop dayak love taib…..
Apart from crooked cronies that shall denied entry to heaven, the crooked greedy Millionaire Priest also must be banished to hell by God
Yes just like taib good old pal Fr.Chua (uncle to Audie61 blog/Audie Chua) that sold off lands(next to EPF HQ Kuching) to private hospital group rewarding himself easy money RM3 million not bad for a Millionaire Priest
Wonder how much Fr.Chua pay tax anyway perhaps donate all the profits back to poor church folks like the rural poor dayak christians (whom made poor by taib)
It shows that a man of faith can be made faithless by befriending taib greed
Catholic Church simply disgraced itself by sleeping with the devil taib
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Blessed Sacrament Church, BDC
Postal Address
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Kenyalang Park,
93816 Kuching,
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Address : NO. 26, 2ND FLOOR, LOT 7038 JALAN SEKAMA
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10. Prop. Private Specialist Hospital On Sublot 1 Of Lots 9887, 9888 & 9889, Section 64, KTLD At Jln Tun Jugah, (New Lot 10992), Kuching 23-02-2010 RM 29,665,000.00 MEDICAL-BORNEO SPECIALIST HOSPITAL SDN BHD
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74 years ago on this day…Taib Mahmud
Some of his classmates joined the civil service after leaving school while one of them joined the priesthood, becoming Father Lawrence Chua.
by James Ritchie, Sarawak Tribune, Friday, 21 May 2010
Mahmud Abang Yahaya and Hamidah Yakub were blessed with their first child, Abdul Taib Mahmud.
Born in Miri on May 21, 1936, Taib was just four years old when the Second World War broke out.
Soon after Japanese troops landed in Miri in December 1941, Mahmud decided to move to his ancestral home in Mukah, where he felt his young family will be safe.
Growing up in Mukah, young Taib picked up several of his father’s good traits.
Taib recalls: “My father was a very strict person, and he was very frank. He taught us to be always truthful. He was very hardworking and his ambition was simple – to see his children do well in life.”
After the war, Taib returned to Miri where his father worked with Sarawak Shell and continued with his primary education.
Determined to make something of himself, Taib was only 13 when he became one of three students from Miri to win a scholarship to study at the prestigious St Joseph’s School in Kuching. This was a moment that would help define his life in later years.
In Kuching, Taib stayed with relatives at Jalan Jawa (now Jalan P Ramlee) and had his first taste of living away from home. This would toughen up his resolve.
At St Joseph’s, Taib made many friends. Among his peers were two other scholars – Miri-born Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam, who is now the Deputy Chief Minister and former Sarawak state secretary Tan Sri Bujang bin Mohammed Nor.
Some of his classmates joined the civil service after leaving school while one of them joined the priesthood, becoming Father Lawrence Chua.
Taib excelled in his studies and, after his Higher School Certificate (HSC), won a Colombo Plan scholarship in 1956 which took him to Adelaide in Australia when he planned to become a doctor. However, while there, he decided to read Law instead.
“ We have to take care of our visitors. This is one Sarawak trait that we must not forget. It is this trait of hospitality and genuine friendship that has made Sarawak one of the most popular spots in Malaysia”
PEHIN SRI HAJI ABDUL TAIB MAHMUD
Even then, Laila was his source of strength and the “pillar” behind Taib. Because both had come from good families, they treated all the people they met with respect.
As a young man Taib cut a dashing figure, flamboyant and suave, yet he preferred to project the other side of his personality – the “kampong boy” or the sincere village lad.
His mission in life then, as it remains today, was to protect the “little man”; this being the main role and responsibility of all leaders and rulers in that days of old.
Taib clearly remembers that coming from a society where not too long ago, slaves were considered normal for some aristocratic families.
But he was averse to such practices from the very beginning. In fact, he became “defender of the weak”.
For this very reason, Taib had time for one and all. In the old days Taib and Laila mixed freely with people from all spectrums of life. They walked the towns and villages and were greeted by people from various strata. The older folk held Laila in great respect, not only because she was married to a Sarawakian, but also because she was gentle and elegant.
After Taib moved to Kuala Lumpur as a federal minister, the couple maintain a decorum that was befitting their position. Taib developed a close friendship with all the Prime Ministers he served under – from Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein and Tun Hussein Onn.
He also drew close to many others including the talented musician- cum-actor and producer Tan Sri P. Ramlee. Taib is not ashamed to say that until today, he is still Malaysia’s number one fan of the late P. Ramlee, a personal friend. In the old days he even dressed like P. Ramlee. Today, he even sings like the superstar.
After returning to Kuching, where he stepped up to the state’s top job on March 26, 1981, Taib revived his dream of instilling the very values of change that would propel Sarawak forward.
Like before, history repeated itself as Laila and Taib would go on their tour of the state, reaching the smallest fragments of society, disregarding all religious and racial boundaries.
They would travel by river and road, jet planes and helicopters, to the towns and most isolated villages of the state, touching the hearts and lives of people of all ages.
The couple had always believed in the personal touch; a kind word here, a gift to a poor villager there, spontaneous help to some worthy cause, be it through the government or from his own pocket.
They continued to formulate programmes that would help the neglected, destitute and underprivileged segments of society.
In the sporting arena, Taib has always been Sarawak’s number one sports fan because of his personal involvement in all sporting activities. He was famous for his spontaneity, always surprising the public on many occasions with generous gestures and donations.
Religious institutions, communities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were also not left out. There was a time when Laila and Taib would go for long brisk walks in the family garden at Demak Jaya off Jalan Bako.
And Taib had been on the occasional jet-skiing trip along the Sarawak River. These jet-ski trips were not just a carefree water spree because, as chief minister, he had a first-hand view and experience of what needed to be done.
Perhaps this was when he decided that it was time to beautify the riverbanks and rid the river of the “romantic” stilted village toilets that faced the Holiday Inn?
In the old days it was not uncommon for Taib to walk in the kampung without shoes. In modern times, Taib attends social and informal events functions in ordinary gear – T-shirts or even a track suit.
This humble touch goes back to the early days to Taib’s humble beginnings, especially when he was championing many causes. At the same time, Taib has carried himself well at official functions, not only dressing for the occasion.
A trait that he still maintains is the tie with the Sarawak flag colours – red, yellow and black.
Over the years, Taib has never failed to stress upon the government and its people the need to sell Sarawak to tourists as a destination of a “community with a heart”.
Taib feels that if the visitors love the people of Sarawak, they will act as ambassadors of the state and, indeed, visitors and tourists, from backpackers to the rich and famous and, old and young, always speak of Sarawak’s legendary hospitality.
Taib said: “ We have to take care of our visitors. This is one Sarawak trait that we must not forget. It is this trait of hospitality and genuine friendship that has made Sarawak one of the most popular spots in Malaysia.”
Despite his busy schedule, Taib still has time for the other people from all walks of life meeting all sorts of people-whether they are Malay, Melanau or Bidayuh from the kampungs, Iban or Orang Ulu from the longhouses, Chinese farmers or Penan from the jungle.
In the early days the Taib had “open house” during Hari Raya where people from all walks of life, races and religions would come to meet the family.
The poor, disabled and handicapped would also make the journey to his residence-first his official residence-first at “Rumah Sarawak” at Reservoir road and later his own home at Demak Jaya. Later the venue was moved to the State Indoor Stadium’s “Stadium Perpaduan” (Solidarity Stadium).
On all festive occasions, Taib has also made it a point to visit the various communities comprising almost 30 ethnic groups-from the Chinese, Dayak or Indian who celebrate Chinese New Year, Gawai Dayak, Deepavali and Christmas in the true spirit of camaraderie.
Having lived in the rural areas and served in Kuala Lumpur as a Federal Minister for 13 years, Taib is appreciate of the multi-racial Sarawak which has emerged after 35 years of Independence.
The interaction of various communities such as visiting each other during festivities (though visiting each other is a normal practise of the many ethnic races in the State) is a practice which is unique to Malaysia, Sarawak in particular.
Taib and his family are friends of the ordinary citizens. During functions or press conferences, Taib also mixes freely with everyone. Over the years he has developed a strong and lasting bond with the local journalists.
It was Taib who suggested the government interact with the journalists. He mooted the idea of a “Fancy Dress” gathering at which members of the media would get to know the Chief Minister better.
As singing is one of Taib’s hobbies, the media practitioners have learnt to develop their vocal skills.
For the past 47 years, Taib has been a dedicated father and devoted grandfather. In fact, the Taib clan extends far and wide. The children, siblings and family members are married into all communities- Canadian, Chinese, Eurasian, Sarawak Malay, Peninsular Malay, Iban and Lebanese.
Over the years, Taib has instilled the values that he was brought up with, both in his own family and his larger family – Sarawak.
As Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud celebrates his 74th birthday today, we can be proud to have a leader whose heart has a place for each and every one of us, all Sarawakians, great and small!
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Mixing politics(AND GREED!) with religion very dangerous — Taib
Borneo Post, April 10, 2011, Sunday
MUKAH: Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud yesterday warned the people of the great dangers involved in mixing politics with religion.
RELIGIOUS UNITY: Taib signs the plaque of the new St Peter/St Paul Roman Catholic Church Mukah. Looking on are Mukah Catholic Church Charitable Trust and Roman Catholic Mission chairman Datuk Aidan Wing (Taib’s right), Puan Sri Ragad Kurdi Taib, and church rector Father Michael Lee (right).
“Never mix religion with politics. There is nothing more volatile, nothing more provocative than mixing the two.
“Inevitably, we will quarrel if we try to politicise religion…also racial issues as well,” he said when opening the RM10 million St Peter/St Paul church here yesterday.
Touching on the issue of some 30,000 copies of Malay language bibles left uncollected at Kuching Port, Taib said it was he himself and not the opposition who had rectified the situation.
“I talked to the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (on the matter),” he said.
Taib said the opposition only knew how to make people angry and that there were much “at stake for us all if we have anger and suspicions against each other… Christians, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhist.”
“We must not allow religious extremists a free hand to divide and destroy society and the country,” he said.
Taking a swipe at the opposition coalition’s slogan which called on the people to vote for change in the coming election, Taib said the people should think very carefully.
“I have made the change in this state since 50 years ago. People are now better off. They have better standard of living, better lifestyle now. We have good roads, amenities, schools, there are many graduates too,” he said.
He said they should ask themselves if this change was for the better or for the worse, whether there would be stability or instability, certainty or uncertainty.
Taib said the people would face a very uncertain future if they were led by leaders like Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“We must maintain what we already have…a united, harmonious, stable, prosperous, progressive and respectable society where we have the freedom to aspire for what we believe is good.
“That is why when I step down I want to hand over the state to new people, qualified people so that there will be no change for the worse,” he said. — Bernama
No amount of whitewashing, flattery, bootlicking, apple polishing, whatsoever, will ever clean or clear away the sins or bad repute of anyone! Only repentance and by the blood of Jesus will the sins be cleansed away or erased!
declare your assets and also pay tax like everyone! Religion is not a problem and we mix well with respect for each other. Take care of the welfare our poor aged citizens! Most depend on their only child or children.
Burn in hell.
Lord Jesus…you said love you enemies…..can i just surrender taib into you hand..and you deal with him and let us in sarawak deal with human.
I am SAD as the wrong one died. We must change the government. I just cannot stand to see corruption in civil service,politics and many many more. I have told my Thief Master but his pride and ego are just too much for him to bear. So we dayak must change for he better NOW!!
OH ya I am rite.Mr.Bishop Tan.AM I wrong in my comment on M'siankini? Not only BN Christian YBs are damn corrupted and it seem the pastors also!.Thats way Sabahans and Sarawakians can de brought with a few pieces of silvers,like Judas Iscariot.sori if I recall wrongly.What is your next move, Sir? Still keep your rural christian communities ignorance or give them political education of what is right and wrong.
Catholic Mission should form RCI (Roman Catholic Of Inquiry) like the promised by Sabah Christian YBs RCI=that never took off and they still trust this so call AL JIB GOR after having cheated for 50 years and never wake-up!
Nothing will be done, unless Arab Spring type pressures are mounted beginning with:
Blockade of all logging & oil palm accesses.
Blockade of all CMS & related’s access & movements.
Work stoppage. Sit-ins in offices, transport hubs & airports.
If the police intimidates…..Good! That’s the beginning of the end of Sarawak’s great tragedy & BN’s stranglehold in Malaysia.
Malaysia Chronicle: “For the first decade… Malaysia has lost a staggering RM1.08 trillion (US$338 billion) in illicit outflows which is the fourth highest in the developing world……The Global Financial Integrity (GFI) reported in January that RM930 billion flowed out of Malaysia from 2000 to 2008…The report elaborated further by stating that the increase was “at a scaled seen in few Asian countries” Due largely to Umno, BN, PBB, etc.
The magnitude of his corruption & evil is astronomical. He & his cronies have stolen mega billions and caused the poverty and misery of a few million people. Yet He and his cronies, they still think King, heaven & God of themselves. He is the worst and the lowest of the low, he should be arrested, prosecuted, be tied to a tree for weeks, spat on, whipped, knifed, then drawn by horses and quartered. Why are Sarawakians so gutless and foolish?