Kenyataan Naib Ketua Pemuda PBB Sarawak Pandi Suhaili - 03 Ogos 2012

Kenyataan Naib Ketua Pemuda PBB Sarawak Pandi Suhaili

03hb Ogos 2012

(merujuk kepada  '' Abdul Karim explains his tiff with Dr Teo "  

&  " Dr Teo’s side of the story " - The Borneo Post)

Adalah tidak wajar untuk Pengerusi PKR Miri Dr. Michael Teo menuntut agar Menteri Muda Belia YB Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah meminta maaf kepada beliau.

Ini adalah kerana YB Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah bukannya melabelkan beliau sebagai bodoh, tetapi soalan yang dikemukakan beliau sebagai bodoh.

Ini diakui sendiri oleh Dr. Michael Teo.

Oleh itu, Pergerakkan Pemuda PBB Sarawak merasakan tuntutan minta maaf ini sebagai satu tindakkan yang menunjukkan Dr. Michael Teo berusaha untuk memancing simpati dari rakyat dengan cuba untuk mengeksploitasi insiden tersebut seolah-olah beliau adalah mangsa dalam insiden tersebut.

Tetapi beliau sendiri mengakui bahawa label bodoh tersebut ditujukan oleh soalan beliau dan bukan beliau.

Pada masa yang sama, Pergerakkan Pemuda PBB Sarawak amat memahami situasi yang dialami oleh YB Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah hingga menyebabkan beliau begitu marah sekali.

Politik provokasi ialah strategi politik pembangkang yang diguna pakai dari dulu hingga sekarang.

Apa yang hendak dicapai melalui politik provokasi ini ialah bukannya kebenaran, tetapi 'kesilapan' yang hendak dieksploitasi.

Pemimpin Barisan Nasional diprovokasi agar mereka marah sehingga mereka gagal menjawab pertuduhan (bukannya pertanyaan) melampau dengan jawapan yang sepatutnya.

Apabila pemimpin Barisan Nasional 'tersilap' tutur kata atau perbuatan akibat dari perasaan marah, pihak pembangkang kemudiannya akan menggunakan 'kesilapan' tersebut sebagai 'jawapan' kepada pertuduhan melampau yang telah mereka lemparkan.

Sekiranya benar, para pembangkang mencari kebenaran, dan bukannya kesilapan, strategi politik provokasi sepatutnya tidak digunapakai.

Tetapi apa yang kita lihat, rata-rata pemimpin pembangkang, baik di Semenanjung ataupun Sarawak, menggunakan strategi politik provokasi.

Penggunaan strategi politik provokasi ini sudah jelas menunjukkan bahawa pemimpin pembangkang bukannya berminat untuk mencari kebenaran kerana sekiranya kebenaran yang dicari, mereka tidak akan menang sebarang kerusi di Sarawak.

Sekiranya apa yang diperkatakan ini tidak benar, Pergerakkan Pemuda PBB Sarawak mencabar semua pemimpin pembangkang, terutamanya di Sarawak, agar membuktikan bahawa dakwaan ini tidak benar dengan menggantikan strategi politik provokasi dengan strategi politik 'gentleman'.

Sekiranya pihak pembangkang enggan membuang strategi politik provokasi jauh-jauh, ini hanya membawa satu makna sahaja - iaitu pihak pembangkang sebenarnya tidak berminat dengan kebenaran tetapi berminat untuk memanipulasi keadaan untuk mendapat simpati dari rakyat agar rakyat memberi mandat kepada mereka.

Sungguh licik Pakatan Rakyat !!!

Sekian. Terimakasih.

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Abdul Karim explains his tiff with Dr Teo

by Johnson K Saai, reporters@theborneopost.com. 

Posted on August 3, 2012, Friday

KOTA SAMARAHAN: Assistant Youth Development Minister Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said the commotion between him and PKR representative Dr Michael Teo during the Election Commission (EC) question and answer session on Wednesday started after he was irked by the way Dr Teo asked questions.

He felt that Dr Teo should not have made such a sweeping statement implicating and accusing the Army and EC of being unfair in the conduct of the election when he was supposed to ask questions on matters he was unclear about.

“I feel it is a question and answer session whereby you put forward your questions to EC if you have any queries but don’t make a sweeping statement.

“I was there when he said when EC conduct postal voting at a camp the ballot box was kept in the army camp after the voting was over. We don’t trust the commander we never know what is happening inside there and when you open the ballot box all the votes go to BN”.

“This to me is wild so I told him that if he doesn’t know the procedure he should asked EC how it was done instead of hurling wild accusations. I told him not to ask stupid questions and something like that but he straight away thought that I was calling him stupid which was not the case”.

“In fact I have the full respect for him and I did not regard him as stupid but it was the manner he had asked questions because you don’t assume, don’t imply and don’t make accusations like that,” he said.

Abdul Karim, who is Assistant Housing Minister and Asajaya assemblyman, told reporters this whey clarifying the incident during the EC briefing session at a leading hotel here on Wednesday.

During the incident, Abdul Karim apparently lost his temper after Dr Teo continued to say that ballot boxes should not be left unattended at the army camp after the voting was over because anything could happen to them.

“This shows that he was ignorant of the procedures so I suggested that he should ask EC how voting in an army camp was done because as far as we know the normal procedure is after the voting time was over the ballot box will be sealed and taken away by returning officers and kept in police cells.

“They are not being left unattended in the army camps. If they are left with the army just like that then there are reasons for everyone to be doubtful.

“Not just among the opposition but also all parties, including us,” he said.

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Dr Teo’s side of the story

Posted on August 3, 2012, Friday

MIRI: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Miri chairman Dr Michael Teo yesterday expressed his disappointment over the incident between him and Assistant Minister of Housing Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah after a briefing on new regulations for the upcoming 13th general election on Wednesday.

Dr Teo claimed that the war of words between them started when Karim said a question asked by him to the chairman of the Election Commission (EC) during the question and answer (Q&A) session was stupid.

He said he had questioned the way the postal votes from the police and the army were being handled and suggested that the ballot boxes be not kept away after the voting process as some people might tamper with them.

“I believe I have the right to ask why the ballot box should be put away after the voting process, brought back the next day for another voting session.

“I suggested that the box should remain at its place where everyone can see it until the next day.

“This is to ensure that no one can tamper with the box.

“But he (Karim) said my question was stupid,” said Dr Teo at a press conference here yesterday.

He claimed that following the remark, he told Karim not to use the word as he was an elected representative respected by the people but the situation instead became tense.

“YB Karim then said he was willing to take off his coat and ‘fight’ like ordinary people outside the hall,” he alleged.

He hoped the incident would not happen again and wanted Karim to apologise to him, as he was willing to forgive him.

Meanwhile, Dr Teo described EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof as a kind and understanding man when he met and spoke with him at the end of the programme.

“I told him matters concerning the election and he listened and advised me.

“I believe he is a very understanding person who is easy to talk to,” said Dr Teo.