The money, claims PKR Baram division chairman Harrison Ngau, will be used to buy votes in the constituency which BN has classified as a ‘hotseat’ in the 13th parliamentary polls.
Ngau, a lawyer, claimed that BN had already identified its campaigners in each long house and ‘funds’ will like start filtering through in the ‘final days’ before May 5.
“The BN campaigners in each of the longhouses have been identified so keep watch on their movements and actions until polling is over.
“I hope and pray that the voters in Baram can count and tell the difference that RM100 given by BN once in five years for their votes is nothing compared to the loss forever of their NCR lands which the BN gave and will continue to give to the big towkays,” he said.
Ngau is also hoping that the Baram voters remember that their elected BN representatives “are hopeless and useless” when it came to defending the land rights of natives.
“They (BN YBs) don’t dare to challenge the decision by and the action of Abdul Taib Mahmud (Sarawak Chief Minister), their BN boss who issues the logging licences and provisional leases over NCR lands,” said Ngau who has just returned from Baram campaigning for PKR’s candidate Rowland Engan.
Engan is in a three-cornered fight with Anyie Ngau, a BN-Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) candidate and an independent Patrick Sibat Sujang.
Ngau also revealed that in Baram certain community leaders were now going around from one longhouse to another armed with the list of recipients of BRIM, e-kasih, financial aid to handicapped persons and other welfare assistance.
“They are threatening to withdraw their welfare assistance if they do not vote for the BN candidate in this election.
“This is the very reason why PKR objected to community leaders being appointed and then used and abused by BN.
“This is also the reason why funds for welfare assistance should not be contracted out or channeled through community leaders especially those who are members and officials of political parties.
“Because these members or officials can abuse such assistance for their personal political agenda,” he said.
He urged the long house residents not be afraid and advised them instead to ‘challenge, humiliate and expose these community leaders” who threaten them.
“They must report these community leaders who threaten and intimidate them to the police.”
Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/04/25/payback-time-for-favoured-loggers-in-baram/
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