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THE recent controversy regarding the use of parabolic dishes and RCI (Royal Commission of Inquiry) suggests only one thing - that is, the Federal Government is not so concerned about the people of Sabah. It pays scant attention, or at most only lip service to what worries the people here.

Sabah is not like semenanjung. Quality of roads and public utilities like water, power, telephone, internet, mail, hospitals, etc, are all years behind.

Outside the towns, things begin to get more horrible.

Many roads are impassable once it rains. Water and electricity supply are largely out of the question.

Many schools and clinics are in dilapidated condition, or at most, inaccessible to those who badly need them - the rural kampong people.

After 48 years in Malaysia, what is there for such poor people?

Come the next 48 years, all would be dead, or perhaps subsumed by the foreigners who are now flocking to the rural areas.

Therein comes the question of Pendatang Tanpa Izin.

Let me add to the PTIs - the imposter Malaysians.

Such imposters are non-Sabahans and are false Malaysians who acquire their Malaysian identity documents through dubious means.

Such PTIs and imposters already are suspected to outnumber the genuine Sabahans.

How not to be so?

With the authorities not keen to stop the smothering of the local people by the foreigners, Sabahans will soon be wiped out within on generation.

This will leave the Federal goons having a total stranglehold on the local vote bank, thus enslaving the State for good.

But one wonders for how long because eventually a Sulu Sultanate may become reality and a claim pursued at the International Court of Justice with Philippines backing to excise Sabah from the Federation, or a terrorism insurgency waged until this is realised no matter how long it takes, just like the communist NPA and Moro struggle still going on in their country.

Sabahans should not be big headed when they are holding ministerial posts and other top government and business jobs. Beware of your rice bowls, or the bowls of your children and grandchildren.

They could be out in the streets polishing shoes or jual rokok or ayam haram.

See the reversal of roles?

To the big headed Sabahans who don't think deeper or look further, be forewarned that this could happen sooner than you think.

With forestry assets gone, the only worthy stuff left in Sabah are petroleum, fishery and other mineral resources, and perhaps agricultural produce that is mainly palm oil.

All these are heavily milked, especially petroleum and minerals which, are under federal control.

The loss of wealth from the State will continue until nothing is left, and like the squeezed and shriveled lemon, will be thrown away when the last drop of juice has been used.

The Government is even seen to be closing one eye when foreigners brazenly claim to have so much rights that they even dare to threaten legal action against local people when their illegally claimed rights are questioned.

They become so powerful and influential as to consider a Sultan by their own kind in the State.

Even a former Prime Minister is said to have acquiesced to their demands and awarded such people projects to the tune of hundreds of millions of ringgit when our Sabahan natives are just scraping by to eke out a living.

Few or none of our leaders seem to care for those down and out especially in the Ulu areas such as Kg Pingas, Sibua, Nawakui, Salilir, and hundreds of other kampungs. And yet there are so many mosquito parties and groupings that are always at each other's throats.

Amid the backstabbing, fingerpointing, bickering, blaming each other, etc, the State is slowly being swallowed up by the relentless onslaught of PTIs and imposters. Just like how a python swallows a goat - silently, quietly but surely.

As for parabolic receivers when such devices are run on solar power, even the dumbest folk in the remotest jungle may still be able to get some true news about the inside or outside of the country.

It is different in semenanjung because over there, every kampong is linked to the outside world.

It is not too late for Federal to take stock and ensure that the worst case scenario is not allowed to happen.