KUCHING: The government’s proposal to enable folk of Sungai Asap Resettlement Scheme to have new land outside the area has the full support from PBB Belaga Youth wing.
Its chairman Henry Kilah Talek said the proposal, if it materialised, was the best solution to meet the villagers’ request for more land to add to the three-acre plot originally given to each of the 15,000 re-settlers due to the construction of Bakun Dam.
“The land shall be cultivated by an oil palm company and the settlers can benefit from the venture by having shares in the company. It should be the way because there is not much land left in Sg Asap.
“At least, by doing this, it will benefit the participants economically. Such model was also mentioned by Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud during a dialogue session at Mega Hotel in Miri on Mar 8,” said Kilah yesterday.
He said the people of Sg Asap welcomed the idea for more land because the three acres of land per family originally given to them was insufficient as their families had grown and they also had to look for fertile land elsewhere.
“The government is now looking at other options to increase the land holding. Unfortunately, there is no more land within the vicinity of the resettlement area.”
On another matter, Kilah said PBB Belaga Youth was relieved that the state government would take legal action against Global Witness for circulating ‘corruption’ video footage linking Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.
He said the video was not only intended to smear CM’s reputation but also an insult to the mentality of Sarawakians.
He also concurred with a statement made earlier by PBB vice Youth chief Pandi Suhaili that the video was an obvious attempt to discredit the state in the eyes of the world. “Western NGOs seem to be obsessed in inciting hatred towards our chief minister. Just like the opposition, they would do all sorts of things to smear our top leader so that the local people and outsiders will be driven to hate him,” he said.
Another PBB Youth leader Hassan Tahir Hasbee, speaking on behalf of the youths in the central region, said Global Witness and other likeminded NGOs only wanted to bring down the chief minister and disrupt the state’s economic and political stability.
He also said the PBB Youth central region was united and solidly behind the leadership of Taib, who is also the party president.
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