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However Francis Siah says he will not back down from making demands for Taib Mahmud to stand down by Aug 13.
KUCHING: Despite threats of arrests from the police, Movement for Change, Sarawak (MoCS) will continue to do what it has pledged to do – that of demanding Chief Minister Taib Mahmud to step down.
“We will continue to demand Taib to step down,” said MoCS leader Francis Siah when contacted today.
Siah, who is presently in Sabah , said that the CID (Criminal Investigation Department) officers had wanted to see him regarding his statement asking Taib to step down.
“I will not see the CID officers without the presence of my lawyers,” he said, adding that a police officer from Kuching had called him over the statement.
“Now they (Barisan Nasional leaders) are using the police to harass me.
“But we are not afraid of the threats by the police, and we will continue to do what we have pledged to do, that is asking Taib to step down.
“We will continue to pressure him to step down if he does not do so by Aug 13,” he added.
Jelly Fish Jabu
Replying to Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu’s condemnation of MoCS recently, Siah said it was pointless trading barbs with Jabu, whom he likened to a “jelly fish without back bone”.
Replying to Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu’s condemnation of MoCS recently, Siah said it was pointless trading barbs with Jabu, whom he likened to a “jelly fish without back bone”.
“He is best known for saying or doing things against his own conscience by taking all sorts of instructions from his boss,” he added.
In criticising MoCS, Jabu had said the movement was going against the wishes of the people in asking Taib to step down.
He said that Taib should not entertain MoCS’ call which was coming from “the mouth of frustrated individuals advocating politics of backwardness and hatred against the wish of the majority of Sarawakians”.
Jabu suggested that MoCS should be changed to ‘Movement for change for backwardness in Sarawak ’ to better reflect their ignorance, frustration and denial.
Another PBB leader, Abdul Aziz Adenan, who is also the PBB Youth information chief, has described MoCS as a public threat because it undermined the legitimate process of election by demanding Taib to step down in three months.
Pointing out that no one has the right to make such a demand, Abdul Aziz said that Taib and other BN leaders have been given fresh mandate by the people to continue leading the state.
“By giving Taib an ultimatum to step down by Aug 13, MoCS is actually making a mockery of democracy in the state.
“MoCS has no right to ask the chief minister to vacate his post when the rakyat have decided otherwise.
“This shows that MoCS has no respect at all for the rule of law in the country,” he said although admitting that as an NGO, MoCS has a democratic right to express its opinion on any subject.
“But it should know that questioning the mandate of the rakyat is not a wise move,” Abdul Aziz said.
Schoolboy Comment
Reacting to these remarks, Siah asked: “Who is this schoolboy? Perhaps he should learn something from his father Adenan Satem on how Taib has treated him.
Reacting to these remarks, Siah asked: “Who is this schoolboy? Perhaps he should learn something from his father Adenan Satem on how Taib has treated him.
“Taib has groomed him for more than 30 years to be his successor and to take over as the next chief minister only to be dropped from the list of leadership successors.
“He has been making use of Adenan all this while and has been lying to him,” Siah said, pointing out that Abdul Aziz should know how his father was cheated.
Meanwhile, Siah said that he was in Kota Kinabalu to arrange for the opening of Movement for Change, Sabah (MoCS) on May 18.
The Sabah movement will be headed by Abdul Razak Salam, a nephew of the late Chief Minister of Sabah , Tun Mustapha Datu Harun, he said.
-- FMT
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