Statement Archive for May 2016

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2016-05-01 If DAP can win in Bawang Assan, which was not won by DAP in previous general election in 2011, then Sarawak is ready for DAP Sarawak Plan to capture Sarawak state government in 2021 Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-01 The Cabinet must take the opportunity to explain the 1Malaysia Development Bhd and the RM4.2 billion donation scandal after its specially arranged meeting in Kuching Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-02 My three wishes for the 11th Sarawak state general election on May 7 Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-02 Request to PM Najib for me to appear before Cabinet meeting in Kuching on Wednesday to present case why Cabinet must take a stand on the 1MDB scandal and to give a briefing of my visit to 120 Parliamentary constituencies in six months Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-02 Just as DAP took 24 years before trying to go for power in Penang State, Sarawak DAP is ready to go for power to form Sarawak State Government in 2021 if DAP Sarawak makes headway in May 7 polls Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-03 Sarawak BN is running the most schizophrenic election campaign in Malaysian election history Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-03 Time for Katibas voters to have a young, dedicated and idealistic State Assemblyman instead of a seven-term incumbent who became Assemblyman even before Paren Nyawi was born and could not build the road from Song to Kapit and Kanowit after more than three decades Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-03 Call on Sarawak voters to cast their vote on Saturday to ensure that the DAP can campaign to capture the Sarawak state government in the next Sarawak State Election in five years’ time in 2021 Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-03 Great Sarawak Debate on 1MDB and email to PM Najib for me to appear before Cabinet meeting in Kuching on Wednesday to present case why Cabinet must take a stand on the 1MDB scandal Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-04 The battle cry in the next Sarawak state general election in 2021 is that a new Sarawak State Government involving the DAP and like-minded Sarawakians will be able to achieve more in 20 years what Barisan Nasional failed to do in 60 years in terms of development and upliftment of the poor and needy Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-04 Call on voters of Sarawak to solidly vote for DAP to deliver two powerful “Yes” and one even more powerful “No” on May 7 Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-05 Mystified why Najib gave Adenan an open slap-in-the-face by rejecting Sarawak Barisan Nasional request for 20 per cent oil royalty for Sarawak on eve of May 7 Polling Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-06 If DAP succeeds in forming Sarawak State Government in next general election in 2021, the first DAP Chief Minister of Sarawak is unlikely be a Chinese but most likely be a Dayak Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-06 Call on Sarawak voters to think “2021” in next five years for Sarawakians to change political course in the next state general elections and to vote in a new State Government which gives priority to the interests of people and not just to cronies Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-06 Is Sarawak Barisan Nasional opposed to the appointment of a Dayak Sarawak Chief Minister in the 2021 Sarawak state general election - for the first time in half a century since the appointment of two Iban Chief Ministers from 1963-1970? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-08 DAP must not be afraid to lose in elections as we must learn from the crushing defeat in the Sarawak state elections yesterday so that we can become stronger to fight for justice, freedom and human empowerment another day Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-09 Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar by-elections will be more reliable barometers of Najib’s fate in 14GE than the 11th Sarawak state general election Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-10 Najib has gained no respite for Malaysia or for himself on the 1MDB global scandal despite the landslide BN victory in Sarawak state general elections on Saturday Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-11 Will Adenan become the next Pak Lah? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-11 Call to Najib to present White Paper on 1MDB in next week’s Parliament and to set aside three days for debate on it, as well as PAC Report on 1MDB Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-12 The victims of RM50 billion 1MDB scandal are the 30 million Malaysians as “corruption is not a victimless crime” Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-13 Four parliamentary measures to redeem national honour and reputation in the handling of Malaysia’s first global scandal – RM50 billion 1MDB scandal Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-13 Terengganu is a peculiar state where Opposition Assemblymen help to prop up the UMNO Mentri Besar to defeat a no-confidence motion in the State Assembly from an UMNO Assemblyman Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-14 Challenge of Pakatan Harapan is to convince all voters that the victims of the RM50 billion 1MDB scandal are the 30 million Malaysians as corruption is not a victimless crime Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-14 Why is Najib absconding to UK next week when he should be in Parliament to give full and satisfactory accounting on the exploding 1MDB global financial scandal? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-14 RM50 billion 1MDB scandal is equivalent to 100 years of Kelantan’s annual state budget Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-14 Skandal RM50 bilion 1MDB adalah sama banyak belanjawan negeri Kelantan untuk 100 tahun Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-15 Johor should take over the baton from Sarawak to be the vanguard for political change in Malaysia Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-15 I have visited 130 parliamentary constituencies during my six-month suspension from Parliament and all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region want Najib to answer two simple questions about Najib’s global financial scandal – where the money came from and where the money had gone to! Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-16 Four ways for Najib and Parliament to redeem their abject failure to ensure responsibility and accountability for first global financial scandal in nation’s history Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-17 Myths about the forthcoming Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar parliamentary by-elections Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-17 Zahid Hamidi should to tender apology to Maria Chin and Tony Pua and take immediate action to restore their fundamental democratic right to travel freely overseas Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-18 Would Azalina refer herself to the Committee of Privileges for lying in Parliament or would there be an Acting Minister in the PM’s Department appointed to be in charge of parliamentary affairs to refer Azalina to Committee of Privileges? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-19 Call for public inquiry into the tragic helicopter crash during the 11th Sarawak general election causing the death of six people, including a deputy minister and another MP Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-19 Azalina has committed double contempt of Parliament when she defended her lie in Parliament in her reply to Guan Eng on the PAC Report on 1MDB Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-19 Will any Minister resign tomorrow on a matter of principle if Cabinet is not prepared to take a policy decision not emulate communist countries and closed societies by countermanding undemocratic ban on Maria Chin and Tony Pua from free travel overseas? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-20 Najib’s Ministers have been very busy indulging in sophistry, prevarication, obfuscation and downright evasion instead of being true and frank about the RM50-55 billion 1MDB and RM4.2 billion “donation” global financial scandals Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-21 UMNO/BN can only be defeated in the Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar parliamentary by-elections if there is a “game changer” giving the two by-elections unprecedented national significance and importance Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-21 Malaysians should speak up to oppose Najib’s plan to turn Malaysia into a national prison where critics and opponents of the Prime Minister and Government are prohibited from travelling freely overseas Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-22 Is Malaysian Parliament one-sided and partial where Ministers and senior government leaders like PAC Chairman cannot be referred to Committee of Privileges for lying and the Speaker only a “yes men” to such breaches of parliamentary privileges? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-22 Puad Zarkashi has let the cat out of the bag – the obsession of Najib and UMNO leaders about the 1MDB and “donation” scandals which have catapulted Malaysia to world’s top nations associated with global corruption Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-23 Will PAC Chairman Hasan apologise for his several breaches of parliamentary privileges in connection with PAC Report on 1MDB and make amends by tabling in Parliament the Report of Auditor General on 1MDB as he had promised on 7th March and re-open investigations into 1MDB scandal? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-24 Time for Najib to speak up personally and state which version or versions about the source of the multi-billion ringgit deposits into his personal bank accounts was the true and correct one Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-24 1MDB financial scandal – the global noose is closing in while at home the Ministers are in sixes and sevens trying to defend the indefensible Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-25 Has the end-game however protracted of the nation’s first global financial scandal – RM50-55 billion 1MDB scandal - begun with the two-pronged crackdown by the Swiss and Singapore authorities? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-25 Did Puad Zakarshai tell a lie to Malay students in Canberra about the RM2.6 billion “donation” in Najib’s personal banking accounts? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-26 Special Task Force on 1MDB should be resurrected and representatives from Bank Negara, MACC, Police, AG’s Chambers as well as PAC should be sent to Singapore and Switzerland to learn how they could detect 1MDB money-laundering and corrupt practices running into billions of ringgit but which had escaped Malaysian authorities Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-27 Has Bank Negara given a new deadline for 1MDB to repatriate RM7.76 billion of its funds remitted abroad or can 1MDB now illegally keep them overseas? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-27 Bank Negara Governor Muhammad Ibrahim should convene emergency meeting of Bank Negara Board of Directors on whether BNM should remain above the fray of world crackdown on 1MDB money-laundering or should take proactive steps to contact its counterparts in other countries to secure information/intelligence about 1MDB money laundering Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-27 The greater winner for the unprecedented hudud motion in Parliament yesterday was Najib and not Hadi Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-28 Najib has lost the moral compass to be Prime Minister when he is not concerned whether Good Star Limited was the genesis of the RM55 billion 1MDB global financial scandal and fraud but only whether WSJ had committed an OSA offence in revealing Good Star Limited was owned by Jho Low Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-28 Barisan Nasional’s overwhelming victory in May 7 Sarawak GE was reason why Najib could give green light to Hadi to prioritise his hudud private member’s bill motion in Parliament on Thursday Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-28 Kemenangan besar Barisan Nasional pada Pilihanraya Negeri Sarawak 7 Mei lalu adalah sebab kenapa Najib boleh memberi lampu hijau kepada Hadi untuk mengutamakan rang undang-undang persendiriannya mengenai hudud di Parlimen pada Khamis lalu Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-29 Why are Ministers so prone to lie when it comes to the RM55 billion 1MDB global financial scandal? Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-29 Liow and Mah should demand Prime Minister to restore status quo ante, sack Azalina and Rosnah as Minister and Deputy Minister for unilaterally prioritizing Hadi’s bill and Cabinet repudiation of their motion in Parliament on Thursday Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-29 Call for Joint Royal Commission co-chaired by a Sabahan and a Sarawakian to inquire into full implementation of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) especially with regard to autonomy powers for Sabah and Sarawak Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-30 Liow should meet Najib on three-point agenda: Cabinet meeting on 20th May rejecting Hadi’s private member’s bill, whether Hadi’s private member’s bill was about hudud and to restore status quo ante by sacking Azalina and Rosnah Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-30 RM55 billion 1MDB scandal is so humongous that if divided among 42,837 voters in Sungai Besar, every voter would get RM1.3 million! Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-30 I am prepared to meet Liow Tiong Tai and find out whether it is true that Najib never told him in advance about Azalina’s Ministerial motion to give priority to Hadi’s private member bill in Parliament last Thursday Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-31 Liow Tiong Tai and Mah Siew Keong should stop being pawns of UMNO-PAS political plot to polarize Malaysians into Muslims and non-Muslims and make “hudud” the primary issue in the two upcoming Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar by-elections Lim Kit Siang
2016-05-31 Call on Najib to relinquish the portfolio as Finance Minister as one step to deal with the headwinds undermining Malaysia’s economy and competitiveness caused by the 1MDB scandal Lim Kit Siang