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Sabah Bumis doomed due to loopholes in the land laws: Ex-Minister

Kota Kinabalu: The Government has been urged to impose a limit to non-Sabahans owning land in Sabah and to set aside land for the indigenous people who are still lagging behind, like the Malay reserves in Peninsular Malaysia.

Veteran politician, Datuk Ayub Aman, said he was saddened by the unfettered changing of hands in land ownership from the indigenous people to non-Sabahans.

"The loopholes in our land laws should be plugged. As it is today, even native titles can be leased for a period, which is as good as owning such land," he lamented.

With the present scarcity of available land and at the pace of ownership change from the indigenous people to non-bumiputeras, especially to non-Sabahans, as well as the policy of alienating vast tracts to big companies, including public listed companies, the fate of the bumiputeras in land ownership is doomed, Ayub predicted.

Ayub also slammed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for calling on the Government to scrap the work permit requirement for non-Sabahan Malaysians seeking employment and business in Sabah.

He said the Immigration power of the State Government is about the only meaningful right left under the 20-Point agreement entered between Sabah/Sarawak and the then Malayan Government as a post-Malaysia safeguard to protect the interests of the people in either State.

At least in Sabah most of the rest of the 20 Points have either been diluted beyond any functional value or evolved into oblivion through entrenchment of the federal system, albeit with the consent of succeeding political leaders, he added. Among others, these included State religion.

Under the 20-Point agreement, Sabah, having a multi-religious and multi-cultural population, was not to have a State religion although it was accepted that Islam was the State religion at national level, which was scrapped during the Usno era, he said.

On the Immigration issue, Ayub said apart from still being relevant, it is also pertinent to the uniqueness and agreed autonomy of Sabah within Malaysia as intended by the founding fathers.

As such, the issue should not and must not be compromised, let alone call for its abolition, he stressed.

He recalled that State control of immigration was one of the many safeguards to protect the interests of Sabahans strongly advocated by OKK Sedomon Gunsanad, a Pasok Momogun leader then, because he was concerned about the locals' inability to compete with the more aggressive and knowledgeable non-Sabahans in terms of exploiting socio-economic opportunities.

This happened when Tun Razak visited him at his house in Keningau to explain the Malaysia concept prior to the establishment of Malaysia.

OKK Sedomon's requests were subsequently taken up by the Sabah Alliance Party and, hence, the drafting and finally the birth of the 20-Point agreement.

Ayub who served as Cabinet Minister in the Berjaya government, admitted that it was a mistake for the Berjaya Government to open the immigration gate to Sarawakians.

But he maintained that the policy was well intended since the understanding was mutual between both states. However, until today, Sarawak has not reciprocated.

"Given the raison d'être behind the immigration right of both Sabah and Sarawak, I think the Sarawak leaders were being wise, while we were being naively generous," he opined.

To LDP's Datuk Chin Su Phin's contention that it was the politicians rather than the people who want the immigration control over fellow Malaysians from outside Sabah, Ayub said:

"This a representative democracy for goodness sake. However, LDP and Chin may declare their contention to the people come next election and they can treat the issue as a referendum to prove their point."

"I suggest that Chin seek the view of the political elders who were directly involved in the formation of Malaysia, specifically on the spirit behind the request for and the grant of the state power on immigration and the 20 Points, in general."

He said that whatever was left of the 20-Point agreement are being zealously guarded by the people of Sabah.

Ayub agreed with PBS President Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan that the State's right and autonomy have nothing to do with the 1Malaysia concept, which is currently being promoted to unite the nation.

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