Right now, Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman is 'working his magic' at all levels of politics.
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In Sabah, the coming 13th general election will be known as the Musa Aman versus Musa Aman election.
These days, Musa’s pluses and minuses are the only talking points.
But Musa being the experienced and cunning election strategist he is, has written the role for himself.
He knows that he is smack in the centre of the war zone and is now selling his own virtues and, mind you, has already won over his party and captured the minds of Umno leaders in Kuala Lumpur and the prime minister himself.
Pakatan Rakyat and all the other wannabe opposition parties in Sabah, meanwhile, are moving in the lanes and bylanes of Sabah highlighting Musa’s vices, weaknesses and lies.
They’re flogging his deceitful ways, his alleged collusion with Umno KL over the mushrooming of illegal immigrants, land grabs, deforestation and billions of ringgit laundered.
They are flogging Umno’s disregard and disrespect for Sabahans and Malaysia Agreement 1963.
But Musa has staunchly identified himself with Sabah as PBS’ Joseph Pairin Kitingan once did with Sabah in the 1985.
(PBS won the election and went on to form the government which collapsed years later following a series of defections reportedly engineered by Umno in KL.)
Musa is taking a leaf off Pairin’s 1985 strategy and raising regional parochialism to new heights by getting the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants to be conducted quickly before the 13th general election and negotiating with the federal government for higher oil royalty for the state.
Musa’s magic
In fact, Musa is quite confident that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak will be disclosing an “interesting” figure on a new oil deal, which will likely create shock waves.
Right now, the Musa magic is working across the board.
There are several reasons why Barisan National will do well in Sabah this coming 13th general election despite reports to the contrary.
Musa without any doubt is pro-reforms and a moderate chief minister.
He has continued helping the underprivileged and poor including single mothers and widows, while some received skills training.
There are many other situations where Musa has created new programmes and projects for the poor and the underprivileged.
He has allowed grants for new education institutes, self-financing education bodies and schools.
As a result, indigenous children don’t have to pay for uniforms, shoes and textbooks. Food and milk supplement programmes have also been extended to indigenous children in the interior.
So, when Pakatan argues that Musa’s leadership is not so much identified with the poor and the natives as with the urban, middle class and upwardly mobile voters of small towns, it is quite unbelievable.
Selvarajah Somiah is a geologist and freelance writer. He blogs at selvarajasomiah.wordpress.com
Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak gembira dengan kerjasama yang diberikan oleh kerajaan negeri, di bawah kepimpinan Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman, kepada kerajaan persekutuan.
ReplyDeletePenduduk, khususnya orang-orang yang sedar kemusnahan Sandakan dialami semasa Perang Dunia Kedua, pembangunan dan pemodenan kini dapat dinikmati oleh penduduk di bawah pentadbiran Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Musa Aman.
DeleteDatuk Seri Musa Haji Aman, mengajak rakyat terus memelihara hubungan perpaduan sambil memperkukuhkan kekuatan kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) yang telah banyak menyalurkan pelbagai bentuk pembangunan demi kepentingan semua kaum di negeri ini.
DeleteMasidi berkata khabar angin mengenai Musa akan digantikan sementara oleh beliau ataupun Hajiji adalah tidak benar. Masidi turut mengatakan bahawa Musa telah melakukan kerja cemerlang malah PM sendiri telah memuji kepimpinan Musa.
Deletebyk pembangunan Musa lakukan di sandakan, Sandakan kini makin maju.
DeleteNot only Sandakan but Tenom is in the process of getting the latest development.
DeleteLeaders like Herman Luping has been singing praises about Musa Aman, saying that his financial management of the Sabah government’s coffers and his forest management policies is rated the best in the nation.
ReplyDeleteWell luckily he was one of the leaders who has been singing well all the time.
DeleteSam Mannan also said that Datuk Musa Aman's strong leadership amid stable politics has allowed him to make unpopular decisions that are critical in conserving about 300,000 hectares of virgin forests, gold, coal and minerals in the Danum Valley and Ulu Segama Malua forest complex. He cited an example when he stopped an attempt to log 20,000 hectares of the Danum’s buffer forests that would have fetched 4 billion ringgit ($1.2 billion).
ReplyDeletehttp://sabah-go-green.blogspot.com/2012/02/musa-aman-conservationist-par.html
ramai yang mahu menjatuhkan Musa Aman kerana pihak2 itu takut jika Musa Aman memerintah lebih lama, maka sumbangan beliau kepada negeri ini semakin banyak.. bila sumbangan semakin banyak, maka kedudukan beliau semakin kukuh..
ReplyDeleteIn fact they have been scared all the time and I don't even know why.
DeleteRespect the leaders.
Deletekeluasan Sabah yang sepatutnya layak ditadbir oleh lebih dari 4 orang ketua menteri mampu diurus tadbir oleh Musa Aman seorang..
ReplyDeleteEven Najib said he is well and he should be learned from.
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