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Saman Halim Saad bakal papar kebejatan kronisme

June 19, 2013
Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, (Harakahdaily) 18 Jun 2013

 

1. Saman jutawan Tan Sri Halim Saad terhadap tiga pihak  defenden; kerajaan  Malaysia, Khazanah Nasional Berhad dan Tan Sri Nor Mohamad Yaakop bakal mendedahkan pelbagai hakikat ‘kebejatan tadbir-urus korporat’ yang kerap didakwa pihak pembangkang dari era pentadbiran Tun Dr Mahathir dan dasar ekonominya sebagai Mahathirnomics!
2. Andainya kes ini tidak dipaksa mengikuti ‘penyelesaian di luar mahkamah’ seperti seorang lagi korporat Melayu Tan Sri Tajuddin Ramli, rakyat akan berpeluang mendapat ‘pencerahan minda’ tentang tata-kelola ‘Corporate Malaysia’ dan fenomena “Political Business” atau “Perniagaan Politik”– sebuah ‘dunia perniagaan korporat’ yang terhindar daripada pengetahuan orang Melayu teramai khasnya dan rakyat amnya.
3. Hanya segelintir ‘Melayu-Umnoputera’ yang ‘bertuah’ (privileged) – satu ‘class’ yang mendapat ‘patronage’ (penaungan) daripada perlaksanaan polisi ini dalam ‘gelombang penswastaan mega’ Mahathirnomics. Kepercayaan Tun Mahathir terhadap penjanaan kekayaan (Wealth Creation) melalui metodologi ini yakni Pasaran Saham (Equity Market) dan ‘Pemilikan Saham Korporat’ (Corporate Equity) bagi mencipta ‘satu kelas kapitalis Melayu yang super-kaya’ adalah sangat jelas. Hampir-hampir Mahathirnomics adalah sinonim dengan ‘kelas Kapitalis Melayu super-rich’ itu.
4. Mengapa Halim Saad memilih tarikh 27 April 2013, tiga hari sebelum pembubaran Dewan Rakyat tidak sukar untuk diselami. Namun, hanya Halim Saad sahaja yang tahu jawapan setepatnya kepada ‘soalan-RM1 bilion’ ini. Penulis bersedia memberi ‘bacaan’nya tetapi itu bukanlah matlamat penulisan ini.
5. Apa tujuan penulisan ini? Tujuannya ialah ‘Pencerahan minda’ rakyat supaya tabiat buruk ini tidak diulangi, sama ada ‘pemangsaan’ sesama kelompok mereka sendiri atau lebih penting lagi bagaimana kekayaan negara berakhir dalam pemilikan  parti pemerintah dalam amalan ‘Kapitalisme Kroni’ atau ‘Crony Capitalism’. ‘Nominee’ atau ‘Penama’ yang mendapat ‘naungan’ atau ‘patronage’ penguasa politik adalah ‘pemegang amanah’ parti-parti tersebut. Barisan Nasional sudah terlalu selesa dengan cara begini hingga lahirlah contoh-contoh seperti Fleet Holding milik Umno, Multi-Purpose Holding milik MCA dan Maika Holding milik MIC.
6. Kapitalisme Kroni or ‘Crony Capitalism’ adalah satu fenomena yang tidak asing dalam bidang ilmu ‘Political Economy’ atau lebih khusus lagi dalam “Political Business”. Di Malaysia, tokoh-tokoh akademik yang telah menumpu bidang ini antara lainya ialah Profesor Jomo Sundram dan Profesor Terrence Gomez. Mereka menghasil puluhan buku dan terbitan akademik yang sangat kritis terhadap ‘amalan sumbang’ (incestuous relationship) antara penguasa politik dan segelintir elit bisnes khasnya sejak era Tun Mahathir sehingga mempopularkan istilah ‘Mahathirnomics’.
7. Halim Saad adalah contoh ‘nominee’ Umno seperti ditegaskan Tun Mahathir sendiri dalam penjelasannya. Walaubagimana pun atas ukuran dan tuntutan keadilan, wajarkah beliau diperlakukan seperti yang bakal kita perincikan ini, tidak juga sesuatu yang mudah untuk kita hukumi. Aspek ini memerlukan wacana dan penelitian yang lebih mendalam dan sekarang ini telah menjadi kes tumpuan di mahkamah. Meskipun Halim berhutang sejumlah RM26 bilion pada kemuncak Krisis Kewangan Asia 1997 itu dan RM13 bilion selepas bayaran sebahagian dibuat, aset Renong-UEM masih punya nilai pasaran yang tinggi. Plus Expressway sahaja di bawah UEM berjaya menjana terbitan RM30 bilion dalam bentuk sukuk dan Prolink Sdn Bhd contohnya yang dimiliki Renong, mempunyai ‘land bank’ 25,000 ekar tanah di Johor yang kini adalah Iskandar Malaysia.  Anggaran nilai pasaran melebihi RM21 bilion. Maka tidak mudah juga untuk kita persalahkan hanya ‘kroni-kroni’ Umno ini sahaja tentunya.
8.  Sejauh mana Halim Saad seorang akauntan asalnya, turut menambah nilai aset Renong-UEM adalah satu pertikaian yang tidak akan berkesudahan. Penulis ‘tawakuf’ dalam membuat hukuman dari segi ini. Betul lah dia ‘kroni’ tetapi bayangkan kalau dia tidak ‘kroni’ dan tidak pula dia perlu bersaing dalam kancah yang sarat amalan ‘kronisme’. Itulah jenayah Mahathirnomics – yang tidak pernah memberikan ‘padang yang sama-rata’ untuk melahirkan ‘local champions’ kepada semua. Yang ‘dinaunginya’ pun dia ‘pancung’ juga apabila bertembung kepentingan.
9. Tegasnya kesimpulan tema : Perbalahan atau ‘perang korporat’ di antara penguasa politik-pemimpin parti yang ‘memangsakan’ kroninya sendiri. Renong dan UEM sebagai satu “Kumpulan”, pada kemuncak kejayaan mereka, memilikki 9 lagi syarikat awam (PLCs). Struktur ekuiti juga tidak mudah dirungkaikan. Sementara UEM memilikki 32.5% ekuiti dalam Renong Berhad, UEM pula dimilikki 37.1% oleh Renong Berhad (yakni pegangan saham bersilang atau cross-holding). Tan Sri Halim Saad sendiri memilikki 16.5% ekuiti Renong sekali gus menjadi pemilik utama ke atas ‘Kumpulan’ konglomerat ini.
10. Sebagai kesimpulan kes, Halim Saad telah mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadap kerajaan bagi menuntut penyelesaian pembayaran sebanyak RM1.3 bilion yang didakwanya adalah baki dari tawaran kepadanya sebagai ‘galakan’ (inducement) supaya beliau melepaskan seluruh pegangannya dalam Renong Berhad dan United Engineers Motor (UEM) dan menjual ‘Kumpulannya’ ini kepada Khazanah pada tahun 2001.
11. Halim Saad mendakwa pengambilalihan Khazanah ke atas Renong dan UEM itu berlaku dengan kerelaan beliau kerana beliau dijanjikan akan mendapat beberapa bayaran antara lainnya: i. RM1.3 bilion yakni RM325 juta akan dibayar secara tunai dan RM325 juta dalam bentuk ‘cash equivalent’ dan bakinya RM650 juta dalam bentuk tanah ‘Prolink Development’ yang kini adalah Iskandar Malaysia ii. Khazanah akan membeli saham Halim sebanyak 16% blok dalam Renong dengan harga RM1.25 sesaham berjumlah RM485 juta. iii. Sebuah syarikat alam sekitar bernama Kualiti Alam Sdn Bhd akan dipindahmilikkan kepada Halim Saad bernilai RM1.805 juta
12. Kini setelah 12 tahun menantikan bayaran bakinya, Halim mengesahkan beliau telah tertipu untuk melakukan sedemikian atau ‘fraudulently induced’ dengan pihak defenden tidak punya niat untuk membayar keseluruhan tawaran tersebut. Sehingga ke saat penulisan ini, Halim menyatakan mendapat bayaran sebanyak RM165 juta sahaja…….….sambung baca di sini…

TPPA: Pakatan Rakyat masih tidak puas hati

June 18, 2013
Harakahdaily, 18 Jun 2013

Jumaat, 14 Jun 2013 yang lalu, kami telah bertemu dengan wakil-wakil MITI yang diketuai oleh Datuk Rebecca Sta Maria, KSU Kementerian serta salah seorang perunding utama bagi Perjanjian Perkongsian Trans-Pasifik (TPPA), Encik J. Jaya Siri.

Mesyuarat ini dilakukan bertetapan dengan waktu, hanya sehari selepas dialog gagal antara MITI dan Majlis Tindakan Ekonomi Melayu (MTEM). Walaupun kami menghargai rundingan yang dianjurkan oleh MITI yang melibatkan pihak yang berkepentingan, terutamanya ahli-ahli Parlimen dan pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat, kami masih tidak berpuas hati bahawa pada hakikatnya TPPA itu tidak tertakluk kepada pengawasan parlimen.

Sehubungan dengan itu, rakyat Malaysia terpaksa berhadapan dengan kekangan dalam memastikan hak-hak sosio-ekonomi dan kedaulatan negara dihormati dan dilindungi. Rangka kerja undang-undang TPPA yang menyeluruh itu boleh menyebabkan undang-undang domestik terpaksa akur dengan meletakkan syarikat-syarikat multinasional di atas jika tidak setara dengan kedudukan kerajaan.

Banyak isu-isu telah diusul semasa perbincangan, yang terdiri daripada isu kawalan kerajaan ke atas pasaran kewangan, penyelesaian pertikaian antara pelabur-kerajaan (ISDS), harga farmaseutikal dan perubatan, serta kebimbangan umum terhadap kurangnya ketelusan dan maklumat tentang teks rundingan TPPA. Semasa dialog itu yang berlangsung selama sejam, perkara khusus yang telah dibangkitkan adalah:

1) Analisa Kos-Faedah (CBA) pada TPPA

MITI mengakui kewujudan kertas CBA dibentangkan kepada Kabinet pada tahun 2010, iaitu laporan 2010 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) yang atas arahan Kerajaan Malaysia. Dalam perkembangan yang sedikit positif, kami telah dijanjikan sesalinan laporan tersebut dalam masa dua minggu tanpa disertakan maklumat rundingan.

2) Kawalan Kewangan dan Kebebasan

MITI memberi jaminan lisan bahawa tiada kerugian atau terhakisnya hak kedaulatan Malaysia untuk melaksanakan dasar-dasar ekonomi dan kawalan modal dengan menandatangani TPPA. Walau bagaimanapun, pendedahan teks rundingan Australia baru-baru ini yang menyentuh kawalan modal, dan kewujudan peruntukan sebegini dalam lain-lain perjanjian perdagangan bebas (FTA) yang telah ditandatangani bersama Amerika Syarikat, memaksa kita untuk kekal bersiap sedia demi memastikan hak-hak tersebut tidak hilang.

Selain itu, tiada sebarang maklumat mengenai rangka kerja pengurusan eksploitasi, penerokaan dan pembangunan sumber hidrokarbon dan mineral negara masing-masing. Ia sesuatu yang penting untuk meredakan kebimbangan dan tidak membenarkan syarikat asing untuk mendesak hak mengekstrak sumber semula jadi negara kita berdasarkan terma-terma TPPA itu.

3) Kos Kesihatan

Berhubung dengan hak harta intelek untuk farmaseutikal, kami diberitahu oleh MITI dan Kementerian Kesihatan bahawa mereka berusaha untuk mencari keseimbangan antara menggalak inovasi dan memastikan harga ubat-ubatan adalah berpatutan. Kami juga diberitahu bahawa perbincangan masih berterusan dan tiada peruntukan yang berkaitan telah mencapai fasa berasaskan pernyataan.

Isu berganda mengenai data empunya (proprietary data) dan lanjutan tempoh eksklusif adalah amat penting bagi Malaysia – kita tidak boleh kehilangan akses tatkala membincangkan harga berbanding akses.

Malah, masa semakin suntuk memandangkan pusingan dan rundingan TPPA seterusnya akan diadakan pada bulan Julai 2013 dan pernyataan muktamad dijangka berakhir pada Oktober 2013. Walaupun kami sedar bahawa kerahsiaan amat diperlukan dalam semua rundingan perdagangan, namun kami bimbang kurangnya usaha untuk melibatkan orang awam terutamanya berkait prinsip-prinsip asas kedaulatan negara dan kesan sosio-ekonomi TPPA tersebut.

Kami memuji MITI kerana menganjurkan mesyuarat ini dan kerana berjanji memberikan salinan laporan UNDP yang ditapis dalam masa dua minggu lagi. Walau bagaimanapun, kami tetap komited untuk memperjuangkan ketelusan dan penglibatan awam yang lebih tinggi semua aspek TPPA tersebut. Demi kepentingan umum masyarakat, kami akan menggesa agar sebuah Jawatankuasa Terpilih Parlimen dwi-partisan mengenai TPPA ditubuhkan dengan segera.

Kami amat prihatin mengenai keperluan untuk berahsia seiring dengan rangka kerja dwi-partisan sebegini, dan akan berusaha untuk melaksanakan tanggungjawab kami sebagai penjaga amanah rakyat. Kami juga mengingatkan kerajaan Malaysia bahawa amanah rakyat adalah tertumpu pada pendedahan yang telus dan bertanggungjawab.

NURUL IZZAH ANWAR, Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai

CHARLES SANTIAGO, Ahli Parlimen Klang

DR DZULKEFLY AHMAD, Pengarah Pusat Penyelidikan PAS

WONG CHEN, Ahli Parlimen Kelana Jaya

AZRUL AZWAR, Institut Rakyat

MITI ENGAGEMENT BEGINS WITH PROMISE OF LIMITED DISCLOSURE

June 17, 2013

Last Friday, 14 June 2013, we met with MITI representatives led by Dato Rebecca Sta Maria, the KSU of the Ministry as well as one of the lead negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), Datuk Dr Jaya Siri.

Our meeting was timely, just a day after the failed dialogue between MITI and Majlis Tindakan Ekonomi Melayu (MTEM). While we appreciate the overtures made by MITI in engaging stakeholders, especially Opposition Parliamentarians, we remain unsatisfied by the fact that the TPPA is not subject to parliamentary oversight.

This being the case, Malaysians face limitations in ensuring that our socio-economic rights and the nation’s sovereignty are respected and protected. The TPPA’s overarching legal framework could render domestic laws subservient and put multinational corporations on stronger if not equal footing as governments.

Many issues were brought to the fore during the discussion, ranging from sovereign control over financial markets, investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), pharmaceutical and medical prices, as well as the general anxiety over the lack of transparency and information the TPP negotiating texts. During the dialogue that lasted an hour, the following concerns were raised in particular:

1) Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) on the TPPA:

MITI admitted the existence of a CBA paper presented to the Cabinet in 2010. i.e. the 2010 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report that was commissioned by the Government of Malaysia. On a slightly positive note, we were promised a copy of the said report in two weeks’ time although stripped off its negotiating positions.

2) Financial Controls and Freedom

MITI gave verbal assurance of no loss nor dilution of Malaysia’s sovereign rights to implement economic and capital control policies by signing the TPPA. However, the recent disclosure of leaked Australian negotiation text on capital controls compels us to remain highly vigilant of the possibility on losing such rights.

Additionally, there has been no information at all on the framework on managing the exploitation, exploration and development of the respective countries’ hydrocarbon and mineral resources. It would be pertinent to allay the fears as not to allow a foreign corporation to forcefully insists on its right to extract our natural resources based on the terms of the TPPA.

3) Costs of Healthcare

With regards to intellectual property rights to pharmaceuticals, we were informed by MITI and the Health Ministry that they aim to find a balance between promoting innovation and ensuring access to affordable medicines. We were also informed that discussions are still on-going and no related provisions have reached the text-based phase.

The twofold issues of proprietary data and extension of exclusivity period are very important for Malaysia –we must not lose out access in the price versus access debate hence rendering time as of the essence.

Indeed, time is running out since the next round of TPPA negotiations will be held in July 2013 and the final text is expected to conclude in October 2013. Whilst we understand that some level of secrecy is required in all detailed trade negotiations, we are alarmed by overall lack of engagement with the general public on the fundamental principles of sovereignty and socio-economic impact of the TPPA.

We applaud MITI for organizing the meeting and promising to let us have a censored copy of the UNDP report in two weeks’ time. However, we remain fully committed to fighting for greater transparency and more public engagement vis-à-vis all aspects of the TPPA. In the interest of the public at large, we would urge a bipartisan Parliamentary Select Committee on TPPA be set up immediately. We are mindful of the necessary confidentiality that comes with such a framework and will strive to fulfil our responsibility as custodians of the people’s trust. We also remind the government of Malaysia that the people’s trust is predicated on transparent and responsible disclosure.

NURUL IZZAH ANWAR
CHARLES SANTIAGO, 
WONG CHEN
DZULKEFLY AHMAD
 

Misplaced enthusiasm with Bursa’s FBMKLCI performance

June 15, 2013

Najib Upbeat with Bursa’s FBM-KLCI misplaced? – Dzulkefly Ahmad (TMI – Sideview).

  1. We believe that the statement of PM Najib that the FBMKLCI (capitalization-weighted stock market index) rally due to BN electoral results is at best an inaccurate exaggeration.
  2. FBMKLCI gained by 6% year-to-date is mostly due to regional foreign funds which incidentally is already a regional trend and not a specific trend in Malaysia.
  3. Secondly, it must be also noted that investors are piling back into the long-underperforming stock market as Bursa has stubbornly underperformed since March 2009.
  4. More substantively, we could see that even after the gain post GE, of the relative underperformance. Despite BN winning the election, Bursa is still trailing behind regional peers such as Indonesia, Thailand, Phillipines and Singapore who have all gained more than 10% year to-date.
  5. The irony about post GE rally is that most domestic funds are still cashed up and do not lend support to the local market. In fact domestic funds which are so-called Government-Linked-Investment companies (GLIC) have been net sellers of domestic equities in recent months ie January to May. Only retailers and foreign investors are net buyers who buy underperforming stocks.
  6. Further, we also noted that the rally was led by lower liners such as FBMMidCap and FBMSmallCap who outperform FBMLargeCap such as Sime, CIMB, Gamuda and MRCB.
  7. If the global economy continues to deteriorate over the next few months it is likely that the larger-cap sector would underperform relative to the small caps because of the flight of quality due to deteriorating economy reflected by the 4.1% lowest GDP growth in th 1Q 2013 since 4Q2009.
  8. To easily prove that this rally remains unconvincing is to look at Ringgit which continues to deteriorate and down by 6.8% in just one month while Bursa gains a meagre 6% within five months. We also believe that there is a mysterious disconnect between Bursa and Ringgit performance.
  9. It is worth noting that the exchange rate better reflects long term confidence on the economic power ( Purchasing Power Parity and genuine FDI) than Bursa FBMKLCI which is based on fluid short  term sentiments (ie hot money and potential leakages).
  10. PM Najib doesn’t need to be told that in the final analysis, it is currency and purchasing power that determine the rakyat well-being. Furthermore, as at 2012, Malaysian personal disposable income is still unable to catch up with the inflation rate. The looming hike in inflation from1.8% to 2.8-3% in 2014 compounded by ‘subsidy rationalisation’ and the impending GST are surely cause for concern. Much as he wants to show that he is upbeat with the Bursa current performance, Najib couldn’t and shouldn’t be oblivious of the bad prognosis and the precarious situation ahead.
  11. He must remain focus on concrete structural economic reforms and address serious systemic leakages and abuses while enhancing transparency and accountability in his administration. Only through genuine reforms do we get to be on a different trajectory of competitiveness and a vibrant economy and hoped to support a strong stock market.

Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, Executive Director Pas Research Centre. (Corporate Finance Resource Group).

US, Malaysia lead worldwide ‘land grabs’…..Oops.

June 11, 2013
Africa is the main target for ‘land grabs’ by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released yesterday.
“Africa is the place for cheap land deals and most investors are from western countries like the US and UK,” said Michael Taylor of the International Land Coalition (ILC).
Globally some 45 million hectares of land have been or are about to be signed over to foreign investors in Africa, southern Asia and Latin America. That’s equivalent to 60 percent of Europe’s farmland.
About half of this land is for food production and half for biofuels, according to data compiled by the ILC, a global alliance of nearly 100 civil society and intergovernmental organisations, including the World Bank and United Nations Environment Programme.
“Some investors aren’t actually farming and are only interested in land speculation,” Taylor told IPS.
Rural communities are being displaced from their agricultural, grazing, forests and traditional lands by international investors, Teresa Anderson of the Gaia Foundation, the UK partner of the African Biodiversity Network, told IPS.
Most of the food-producing lands in Africa are held in common by local communities. In Asia and South America, hundreds of millions of small landholders, pastoralists and indigenous people do not hold formal land titles. And when it suits governments, they ignore this customary land holding and sell or lease the land to private companies.
Private capital from pension funds and investment firms are chasing food-producing land since they see it as the next big profitable commodity.
“Investors are looking for annual returns of 20 and 25 percent and many are getting it,” said Taylor.
Experts at the University of Georgia recently completed an assessment of 34 land acquisitions in Africa and concluded that in most cases local people lost “their land and livelihoods often in the absence of any real benefits”.
Tracking via Land Matrix
The US, Malaysia, UAE and the UK are top foreign investors not only in Africa but in other countries, according to the ILC’s new Land Matrix Global Observatory. The Land Matrix is a website that provides the locations and details of nearly 1,000 land transactions all over the world.
The largest transnational land deals are in South Sudan and Papua New Guinea. The Land Matrix lists the individual land deals including the companies involved, the size of the acquisition and intended use. In Papua New Guinea, many of the land deals appear to be for palm oil production.
It is very difficult to track and detail land deals around the world and the ILC hopes that people will provide feedback and offer information, said Taylor.
“There is a huge number of land purchases going on that are not reflected in the Land Matrix,” he said.
Most of those are internal land purchases or leasing by elites within countries. Those are very difficult to document, he said.
“In the last three years, the government has sold more than 50,000 hectares of our land to companies,” said Lalji Desai, a Maldhari, a traditional shepherd in the state of Gujarat in India.
This is part of the state government’s plans for “development” but Maldhari and local farmers want to stay in agriculture.
“The land is very fertile, we don’t want to give it up,” Desai told IPS from Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Up to 70 villages with 125,000 people now find themselves living in “special investment regions” and their lands are being parceled out to foreign companies like Suzuki and Hitachi, he said.
“These are not well-educated people. They won’t get jobs working for those companies,” he said.
Most companies are getting far more land than they need and are making money off reselling the land.
“Land prices have increased 20 times in last 10 years. Everyone wants to buy land, including powerful politicians,” Desai said.
Local people want to stay on their land and are working to strengthen their movement and get more public attention. “We want people to know the best use of our land is for food production,” he said.
This is the kind of situation that the ILC hopes to make public through the Land Matrix website.
The hope is that the Land Matrix becomes an important tool to address the lack of transparency that still surrounds large-scale land transactions, said Ward Anseeuw of the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement.
“The Land Matrix has evolved from a database into a public tool promoting greater transparency in decision-making over land and investment at a global level,” Anseeuw said in a statement.
– IPS

23 petani penyokong Pakatan dinafi dapat subsidi – Betul ke..Apa ni Najib?

June 11, 2013
Rizal Tahir (Harakahdaily), 11 Jun 2013
TUMPAT: Seramai 23 orang petani yang menjadi ahli Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan Tumpat, membuat laporan polis terhadap Pengerusi JKKKP Bendang Pak Yong.
Laporan itu dibuat oleh seorang wakil petani Mat Daud Mat Ail, terhadap Pengerusi JKKKP itu kerana tidak mahu ‘mengecop’ serta menandatangani borang pendaftaran pesawah terhadap petani berkenaan.
Alasan yang diberikan Pengerusi JKKKP itu beliau belum menerima arahan dari pihak atasan berhubung urusan cop borang pendaftaran pesawah.
Dengan tindakan terhadap petani yang juga penyokong Pakatan Rakyat berkenaan, mereka tidak akan mendapat kemudahan insentif subsidi dari pihak kerajaan melalui Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang.
Anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Kelaburan, Mohd Zaki Ibrahim, ketika ditemui media berkata, antara kemudahan subsidi yang ternafi dengan tindakan itu adalah baja padi, skim racun, subsidi membajak dan subsidi jualan padi.
“Apabila JKKKP tidak menandatangani borang berkenaan, bererti tiga keistimewaan berkenaan tidak akan diperolehi oleh petani pro Pakatan Rakyat,”ujarnya.
Beliau berkata demikian kepada media semalam selepas laporan polis dibuat.
Zaki bagaimanapun berkata, masaalah petani lain yang diberi sokongan oleh pihak Umno khususnya Dun Pengkalan Kubur, belum tentu dapat menanam padi dengan baik.
Ini kerana, dengan menyekat petani seramai 23 orang itu menyukarkan petani lain untuk menanam padi mereka.
“Kerumitan akan berlaku contohnya aliran air, apa lagi petani yang diluluskan oleh kerajaan tanahnya di bahagian tengah,”ujarnya.
Sehubungan itu beliau menyeru Adun Pengkalan Kubur, Datuk Nor Zahidi Omar menyelesaikan masaalah berkenaan seberapa segera.
Jelasnya, sebagai seorang wakil rakyat yang berwibawa seharusnya Zahidi tidak bersikap sedemikian.
Sementara itu Penghulu Bendang Pak Yong, Mohd Azmi Ibrahim, ketika ditemui pula melahirkan kebimbangan perakara yang sama akan berlaku pada petani di kampung sekitar di bawah seliaan Kada.
Jelasnya, mereka juga adalah petani dari penyokong Pakatan Rakyat.
“Saya mendapat maklumat dari petani pihak pejabat Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang Kawasan Tumpat memaklumkan hanya dapat memproses borang petani setelah ianya dicap dan ditandangani oleh JKKKP Mukim,”ujarnya.

Being considerate: KL ‘Black 505′ rally put off…….

June 10, 2013

KL ‘Black 505′ rally put off to June 22.

Opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat has postponed its planned anti-electoral fraud rally on June 15 to accommodate a private wedding and a recycling festival.

azlan“We have taken into consideration appeals from parties that have already planned their events for June 15,” PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli told a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.
“After discussions with the Dang Wangi police, (we) decided to change the date to June 22 … The rally will begin at noon.”
He explained that the organiser of a recycling festival and a family which has scheduled a private wedding on June 15 near Padang Merbok, had contacted the party and asked for its cooperation.
The Kuala Lumpur leg of the ‘Black 505′ rally was originally slated for the same date, to continue the series of nationwide protests against alleged electoral fraud and irregularities in the 13th general election held on May 5.
Rafizi appealed to Kuala Lumpur City Hall to process the application expeditiously, and also expressed hope for police cooperation since Pakatan has submitted the relevant applications and notifications under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012.

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