Table motion or shut up, Upko told
Published on: Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Kota Kinabalu: Upko should, through its three Members of Parliament led by its President Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, table a motion in Parliament to get the Election Commission to allocate at least 35 per cent of the total parliamentary seats for Sabah and Sarawak, said United Borneo Front (UBF).Its Campaign Director, Edward Linggu, said Upko was insincere and merely "cakap kosong" when its Secretary-General, Datuk Wilfred Madius Tangau, said Sabah and Sarawak should get 34 per cent of the parliamentary seats."Upko is merely repeating UBF's Borneo Agenda for political mileage.
ADVERTISEMENT
If Upko is sincere and means what it says, it should table a motion in Parliament or otherwise shut up and stop embarrassing itself further," he said. Edward reminded that what UBF advocated in the Borneo Agenda are not demands for additional rights but merely seeking to restore whatever rights that are rightfully Sabah's and Sarawak's when the Borneo states agreed to form Malaysia in 1963 and what has been wrongfully taken away from Sabah."What are Sabah's rights and entitlements should be restored to Sabah," said Edward. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
Daily Express Malaysia
ADVERTISEMENT
The Cobbold Commission recommended that the number of future seats for the Borneo states should take into consideration the 'size and potentialities' of the Borneo states," he added.
