The Sarawak Scandal Rolls On

• 14 November 2019
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During the current Budget debate in the State assembly it was disclosed that although the proposed development budget amounts to RM 6.5 billion the State is trying to raise RM13.3 billion for “development”. Even in the Alice in Wonderland state of Sarawak that calls for explanation. Which has not been forthcoming. Why not?

13 plus billion ringgit is a lot of money even to a collection of crooks and robbers. So why no detailed explanation about the need for borrowing of more than TWICE the proposed development budget?  If this enormous overspend was in any way explicable any government would be rushing to explain it, if only to avoid the obvious conclusion that financial crime might be involved. But the BN administration into State remains mute as to this. Why?

In the light of the enormous financial scandals now being aired in the criminal courts in the Peninsula only one conclusion is possible. The need for all that extra money is to cover up financial defalcation by the State administration on huge scale. If that is not the case why the refusal to explain the need for these extra billions to the State Assembly’

Anyone tempted to suggest that democracy in Sarawak is dead would be fully justified in doing so. If any business announced that it needed twice as much money as its accounts purported to show shareholders would be lining up to file police reports. But in Sarawak both the PDRM and the MACC appear to have been struck by blindness. Since their head offices in Kuala Lumpur apoear to be functioning normally how can that Sarawak inactivity be explained? It can only be as a result of orders from on high. Time for a policy review?.