Tiang (right) and Foo (left) speaking at the press conference today.
KUCHING: SUPP Youth chief and scretary Michael Tiang and Milton Foo have called on Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumers Affairs Chong Chieng Jen to really fight for Sarawak rights and not just merely play politics.
In a process conference today at SUPP headquarters, Tiang and Foo stated that Chong who is the federal cabinet should really focus his efforts on helping Sarawakians and fight for new projects in the state to provide local opportunities, instead of just making political statements.
“Every time Chong comes back from Kuala Lumpur, he is always on ‘fire’ and some of his statements are full of ‘fire’, so I urged Chong to focus on helping Sarawak and not just waste time making such statements,”said Tiang at a press conference today at SUPP headquarters.
Tiang then went on to request that Chong state his stance clearly on Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg’s proposal to have a special committee for talks on Malaysia Agrement 1963 (MA63) to be modelled along the line of Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC).
Tiang stated that Chong has been very quiet on the matter.
He also asked Chong to fight for new projects in Sarawak to provide job opportunities to the locals.
Another issue that Tiang urged Chong to do is to help facilitate the return of autonomy to Sarawak’s Education and Health, as outlined in the PH’s election manifesto.
“It has been 160 days after the general election, but Sarawakians have yet to see any Sarawak centric policies being announced, and Sarawakians are still waiting,” Tiang said.
Meanwhile, Foo questioned whether the PH motive to focus on the abolition of death sentences that affect only more than 2,000 who are on death row is a wise choice.
According to him, the new government should be focusing instead on economic issues affecting more than 30 million Malaysians.
He suggested that the PH government hold a public referendum to gauge the support to abolish the death sentence.