Reactions To Lim Guan Eng’s Demand For RM350 Mln Advance
KUCHING: Talking about Sarawak’s debts to the federal government on Sarawak Day was in bad taste and indicates how bad and nasty Pakatan Harapan (PH) is to the state.
Political analysts Datuk Peter Minos said in making his uncalled for remarks (no matter how justified) the Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng showed how uncouth and crude he can be.
To recap the issue in question, Minos said Sarawak wants to offer the federal government a RM1-billion contra loan specifically to immediately repair and renovate the hundreds of dilapidated schools for the sake of school children and their teachers.
“But they twist and turn their words and conditions. They are playing the ‘red tape’. They really want to make life very difficult for us,” he said.
He said regarding the state’s debts, they were a totally separate issue, and they are paid on schedule.
“Why mix them with Sarawak’s offer of the RM1 billion? They said they did not have money to spare so we made the offer. Instead, they are insulting and very hostile,” he said.
He pointed out that the federal government are responsible for national education and in that it has not done well, giving endless excuses for its failures and weaknesses.
“How low and worse can PH and Democratic Action Party (DAP) be? Sooner or later the patience and tolerance of Sarawakians will snap,” he said, adding that Sarawakians have already seen that promises after promises were broken by the central government.
“I, as a Sarawakian, am deeply disappointed with the reckless and malicious statement of Guan Eng who has even said that the state would go bankrupt in three years’ time and is now playing around with the school issue,” said Minos.
