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Tuesday 13th May, 2008

MP also wants Sabahans in key Cabinet posts

KUALA LUMPUR: The grouses of the people in Sabah should not be viewed lightly as this could bring about major implications in the next general election, Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh said.
Tell it to their faces Datuk. All the riches they harvested, all those votes they garnered.

The Kalabakan MP, who resigned as deputy natural resources and environment minister last month, also called on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to reshuffle the Cabinet by the end of the year to include Sabah MPs in key ministerial posts.
You better heed their call Mr Prime Minister sir.

“We want justice. Don’t say we Sabahans are talking nonsense,” he said when debating the motion of thanks on the royal address.
That's true sir. They are the ones who were always talking nonsense.

Image borrowed, again without permission from Tom Chalkley.

Ghapur, who was once a Sabah deputy chief minister, also said the speech by Datuk Anifah Aman (BN - Kimanis) in the Dewan last week was a reflection of the sentiments in Sabah.

Anifah had said that it was not wrong to switch parties or “to vacate a bungalow and move to a terraced house if we are not given sufficient room in the bungalow”.
Nicely put Datuk. Let us see how those Semenanjung politicians respond now.

Ghapur said it was an insult to Sabah MPs to be given a total of three ministerial posts when it was Sabah and Sarawak MPs who had helped Barisan Nasional secure a simple majority in the recent general election.

Ghapur also talked about conditions in Sabah where many people still live in attap-roofed houses and rely on wells for water supply.

There were also students who were forced to sit on the floor because there were not enough chairs in classrooms, he said.
Not only in Sabah or Sarawak Datuk. More than a few in Semenanjung are as well. If only the politicians, from both divides, care to look around them, care to get out of their comfy cars and offices and maybe walk a few kilometres in those gravel, muddy pit they call roads. And yes, they can leave their Ferragamos in their SUVs.