Stay away from Sarawak election, Daud tells PPP

Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) vice-president Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman yesterday advised People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to concentrate on winning the seats it lost in the peninsula in 2008.
He told PPP not to contest in the state during the coming general election as it would disunite and destablise the status quo
of state BN component parties – PBB, PRS, SPDP and SUPP – as all seats had been allocated among them.
“If PPP wants to help the state BN component parties we welcome but if they want to contest it will disunite the present unity,” Daud said.
We do not want other BN component parties from peninsula to disunite the state BN,” he said further, urging PPP to concentrate in the peninsula and work closely with other BN parties there.

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Video di pejabat Imegresen Sarawak.. Jelas Ambiga kena banned sejak pilihanraya negeri lagi. Lega melihat Pengerusi BERSIH tersekat di pintu sempadan, akhirnya dihalau keluar daripada negeri ini. Dia bukan orang pertama... sudah pasti juga bukan orang yang terakhir.

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Daud : Urgent need for alternative road

KUCHING: The construction of the alternative road that links Matang area and Kuching City Centre should be built immediately because of the critical traffic congestion in the area at present.

A s s i s t a n t M i n i s t e r o f Infrastructure Development, Datuk Haji Daud Abdul Rahman said the population in Matang area had reached about 50,000 people and the number of vehicles had also increased.

“The problem of traffic congestion is really worrying especially in the early morning when parents are sending their children to schools and during peak hours,” he told reporters when checking on the problems of traffic congestion at the Matang By-Pass temporary road infront of SMK Matang Jaya here Wednesday.

Daud said, the temporary road measuring a distance of three kilometers had been completed about four months ago.The road now is being used by various types of vehicle and they were all avoiding using the Matang Road which lead to the Datuk Temenggong Abdul Kipli Abang Akip roadabout .

“We made a thorough study and present the matter to Public Work Department (JKR) and the professionals to find the most effective ways to overcome the problem of congestion in the Matang area,” he said.

He added that there is no plan to construct a fly-over in Matang area but his ministry will wait for the result of a study that had been carried out to identify the most effective ways to reduce the problem of congestion in the areas.

“I agree with the statement issued by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development Datuk Amar Abang Haji Johari Tun Openg recently that the construction of a viaduct will not be able to solve the problem of traffic congestion but however, I am not against its construction,” he said.

Meanwhile, he said after the connection of Federal Road which passes through Matang area is completed in 2012, he hoped the problem of traffic congestion there would be reduced in the future.

Daud who is also Tupong Assemblyman said an alternative road had been planned to be built at Paroh in Matang and it is included in the 10th MalaysianPlan.

“Proposal to build this new road is now being considered in the 10th Malaysia Plan and if there is no problem, we are scheduling the road to be built by next year,” he said.

He said, the residents in the Matang areas should accept the fact that the problem of traffic congestion is something that cannot be avoided.

“The government is certainly making effort to find the best ways to reduce this problem of traffic congestion because it happen everywhere especially now that Kuching City is rapidly growing,” he said.

Massive loss of Chinese seats complicates CM’s desire for balanced cabinet

KUCHING: Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said he needs more time to think before reshuffling the present state cabinet.
He said it was not about ‘inspiration’ but rather more so about the ‘timing’ of when it would be carried out.
“Honestly it’s not about inspiration of when I will reshuffle the state cabinet but more so about the timing,” Taib told the media after his winding-up speech at the State Legislative Assembly Sitting here yesterday.
Last week, he had told the media that the new state cabinet line-up would be a very complex matter following the massive loss of SUPP in the last state election where they lost 13 out of the 15 Chinese majority seats.
Out of the 13 seats, the DAP had won 12 seats and PKR one. The only two winners from the Chinese community are SUPP deputy secretary general Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh who had won his Bawang Assan seat and SUPP CWC member Datuk Lee Kim Shin in Senadin.
Notable loss to the party are its president and deputy chief minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan in Piasau, treasurer-general Datuk David Teng (Repok), information chief Datuk Alfred Yap (Kota Sentosa), Youth chief Sih Hua Tong (Batu Lintang) and budding politician and former head of SGH Heart Centre Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian (Pending).
Also last week he was quoted as saying: “In a way yes, But in another way, it is the ups and downs of politics.
And I want to see whether there are ways of encouraging better Chinese participation in the government.
“And that is very important because basically what I want for Sarawak is that it should always be a multi-racial state.
“I think we can say that we are very determined to do so for the simple reason that in Sarawak, we have no race that has the simple majority,” Taib was quoted after attending the opening of the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) by Head of State Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Muhammad Salahuddin at DUN complex here last week.
As such, Taib said he would take some time to study the current political situation before reshuffling the present cabinet.
“Let me think about it properly. I have got to study it (the current political situation) it very well. It’s quite a complex situation here.
“You see the main thing is, I am a bit worried how I can get the Chinese representation to express themselves on a more natural way,” he explained.
Taib who is also the Minister of Planning and Resource Management added that he still believed that most Chinese in Sarawak were quite moderate and decent people.
“But during election, they got excited, they followed the trend. It is okay. We accepted that and I don’t want to comment on that,” he said.
However, Taib was optimistic that SUPP’s recent failure was not going to be a permanent feature in the local politics.
When asked whether Wong would be elevated as deputy chief minister to replace Dr Chan, Taib quipped: “Let’s see what happened. I have got to consult my colleagues in a lot of ways.”
He also refused to speculate on the current sitting arrangement of PRS president Tan Sri Dr James Masing who had been seated on Dr Chan’s former chair in the DUN arrangement.
“I have not thought about all these things yet. Are we going to have one DCM or three or four, I don’t know yet.
“Let us see the structure of the cabinet,” he said.
Currently, the state cabinet has 10 full ministers and 12 assistant ministers after the recent elevation of Tan Sri Datuk Amar Adenan Satem as the Minister with Special Functions in the Chief Minister’s office.
The last major state cabinet reshuffle was done at the end of 2009 and minor one in early 2010.