Warisan lost it

One would have expected a former Federal Minister and resigned Vice President of UMNO be on top of issues and narratives in any political campaign. Unfortunately, Dato Shafie Apdal lost his hold on the interest that matter for Sabah people.

President Dutarte announced a committee to review their Federal Constitution to include Sabah as the 13th state but no response was forthcoming from Shafie or his fellow party member to uphold the sovereignty of Malaysia on Sabah.

Dato Anifah Aman challenged opposition leaders and even their bloggers to attend an event to debate the Malaysia Agreement 1963 but none turned up. Apparently, Parliament Speaker Dato Pandikar Amin Mulia was invited to attend but did not show up.

It is a disappointment for Sabah opposition, since the likes of Warisan have been going about the state repeating an old PBS slogan of "Sabah for Sabahans". A bigger disappointment would be for citizen journalism, whose supposed to be fearless.

It was an opportunity to show their Sabah political character and express their positions on issues dear to Sabahans such as sovereignty, and Sabah rights under MA 63.


Foreign Minister, Dato Anifah Aman was swift and firm with his response. Malaysia will not budge, he said. The Philipines claim was brushed aside as ignorance of history. Sabah is part of Malaysia and not belong to anyone else.

Warisan President or other officio did not mum a word except Deputy Prersident Darell Leiking. Taking from Borneo Post, he said:

“The Sabah BN leaders must come out with a concrete solution once and for all vis diplomatic channels or through the United Nations to send a clear message to Manila that it should stop this act of provocation and drop their unsubstantiated claim over our Sabah,” said Leiking who is also the member of parliament for Penampang.

“How can you expect Sabahans to believe the assurances that this federal government is protecting Sabah’s rights and interests through BN when the Sabah claim has been repeated time and time again by Manila?

“Their threat could be real and imminent as we already know through the RCI that their citizens have already inserted and assimilated themselves into our society.”

That is the response of a novice. By going into a dialogue or discussion, it is an acknowledgement of their claim!

He touched on the issue of RCI. But does Darell not know that the Project IC issue is closely associated with Tun Dr Mahathir's administration and Warisan's unofficial coalition partner, PPBM from Semenanjung?


The bigger news in Sabah must be the absene to the challenge by Anifah for opposition leaders and bloggers to come and debate with him on MA 63. None turned up reported Utusan.

KOTA KINABALU 2 Feb. - Blogger-blogger pembangkang yang selama ini menghasut rakyat Sabah untuk keluar dari Malaysia sepatutnya berpeluang berdepan dengan Menteri Luar, Datuk Seri Anifah Aman dalam satu pertemuan yang telah diatur hari ini, namun akhirnya terbukti golongan itu hanyalah lantang di media sosial. 

Ini kerana, meskipun kumpulan blogger tersebut telah bersetuju untuk bersemuka bagi membincangkan isu berkaitan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963 (MA63), tiada seorang pun yang berani tampil sehingga Anifah terpaksa menunggu selama kira-kira sejam setengah.

Berikutan sikap pengecut tersebut, sesi bersemuka yang dijadual pada pukul 2 petang di Hotel Le Meridien di sini bermula lewat dan hanya menjadi sesi penerangan antara Anifah yang juga Pengerusi MySabah bersama para petugas media serta orang awam dan pengamal undang-undang yang hadir. 

"Saya bersetuju untuk mengadakan pertemuan ini bagi menjelaskan perkara sebenar kerana banyak pihak yang bercakap tentang perkara ini tanpa maklumat tepat," katanya dalam sesi tersebut.

Anifah said the facts had been hidden by Tun Dr Mahathir and it would have been ISA to anyone teling the truth then. He said there have been many development on MA63. Daily Express reported:

The Federal Cabinet has appointed Anifah and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri to co-chair a steering committee on devolution of powers to Sabah and Sarawak.

Among the State rights under MA63 which is being worked on, including by the MySabah group, is getting the 40 per cent revenue entitlement for the State provided by the Federal Constitution.

"There is a progress on this important issue (40 per cent revenue entitlement) and we target for this first part to be completed before the GE14.

"I hope we would get something before the imminent general election and we only set this as a deadline (before GE14) which must be done properly as the process is complex and not an easy task as it is more on administrative process and long procedures.

"We are not going to confront the Government but will work with them. As a Sabahan, I believe in Najib who is concerned on this issue and willing to listen and work together with us to meet the people's aspirations in Sabah."

MA 63 will be part of BN Manifesto:


No details was revealed but it only means the prickly issue of 40% revenue payment and the more difficult matter to resolve is the outstanding figure from the past has found a solution.

With this, whether Warisan responded or not, it is a lost cause for them to dwell into the issues. The feeling is Warisan is not ready to take up the sovereignty issues as it would back fire on PH and Shafie himself.

Shafie is said to be lenient on Projek IC and apparently was said to have assisted Suluk to secure IC. Warisan's Secretary General is said to be a Project IC citizen.

In Sabah, Warisan is described as "parti Suluk"for Sahie's heritage or as "parti lanun" for the recent arrest of Shafie and Vice President, Dato Peter Anthony for corruption related to KKLW.

It is an uphill battle for Shafie to avenge. A retreat strategy should be in place. To those that have been claiming Warisan can take up to 15 Parliament seat, they have been told it is impossible.