Sabah Senatorship For Sabahan

I refer to a Sunday Forum article published on 12-July-2009 and am amazed by the kind of mentality that still prevails in Sabah today, and I hope the writer (by the name JP) of the above article is not a member of MCA Sabah.

Sabahan has always been critical about their rights being eroded and outsiders always become the targets of blames when jealousy sets in. Sabahan should work harder and do more soul-searching on why they ‘lost out’ than negatively using the unprofessional way to oust the capable members.

It’s common knowledge that Sabah was co-developed by Malaysians from throughout the country, notably the Sarawakians. If we were shortsighted and closed our door tightly in the last 30 years, Sabah would not have achieved like it is today. It was the ‘virtual open’ policy that worked.

It’s an un-denying fact that Datuk Paul Kong has been contributing quite a lot for MCA Sabah over his years of services, and he’s one of the most qualified candidates for the post. Further more; Penampang MCA division under his leadership has been the fortress of MCA Sabah in the last 8 years supporting the only State Assemblyman we have.

MCA is a national political party for the Chinese Malaysians regardless of origin, have been politically contributing towards a stronger Sabah, or Malaysia, one way or another.

Out of the 25 divisions of MCA Sabah, 9 Division Chairmen are the so-called ‘Outsiders’.

The truth on the only senatorship for the MCA Sabah is that the Senatorship has been a quota for MCA, not for Sabah. In other words, the Senator that MCA Sabah used to have was actually under the quota given by MCA Headquarter, not from Sabah. It's a 'loan' to Sabah. Why was the writer by the name JP think that MCA is taking the quota from Sabah? In actual fact, it’s the other way round, MCA is ‘loaning’ the Senatorship to Sabahan than taking it away from Sabah.