MIRI: The Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) is in agreement with and supports the call by PRS secretary-general Datuk Janang Bungsu to take away all government appointments to PSB (previously known as UPP) such as the ministerial appointment, political secretary appointment to the Chief Minister, councillorship, local council chairmanship as well as cutting off their RTP and MRP funding immediately.
In a press statement released yesterday, SUPP’s secretary-general Datuk Sebastian Ting Chiew Yew opined that the party (SUPP) has been right all this while, that UPP (now PSB) has never been friendly to SUPP.
He added that recent political news has showed very clearly that they are now also not friendly to PRS, another component party of Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS).
“On January 4 this year, SUPP released a press statement with the headline ‘UPP not SUPP friendly as yet’. If UPP is not friendly to SUPP, it is therefore illogical to say that they are friendly to GPS and SUPP is part of GPS.
“Today SUPP would like to reiterate that UPP (now PSB) has never been friendly to BN then and now GPS. UPP (PSB) then was only friendly to PBB, even though they said they were friendly to BN and now GPS.
“Their recent press statement was even worse as they only pledged loyalty to one person only, namely the Chief Minister of Sarawak. The name PBB was not even mentioned at all,” Ting said in a statement.
He added that any attack or unfriendly action against fellow component GPS parties must be seen and be taken as an attack against GPS as a whole.
“At least they (PSB) are now slightly honest to say they are loyal to our Chief Minister only and did not continue to say they are GPS friendly. It is laughable if one day in the near future they announce and tell the whole world that they are GPS friendly again.
“Since that is the case, many people on the ground throughout Sarawak are asking can or should anyone of them (PSB members) continue to be Cabinet ministers and or assistant ministers of GPS government?” he asked.
He said morally they should know what to do but given the present political expediency, they are unlikely to tender their resignations.
“Of course we all know that the appointment or retention of Cabinet ministers and assistant ministers is the sole and absolute prerogative of our Chief Minister.
“It is entirely up to our Chief Minister to consider whether it is better for or in the best interest of GPS to keep them as members in the present Cabinet. The pros and cons must be weighed and considered very carefully,” Ting said.
