The hearts do not forget nor forgive

Umno: Ladang Rakyat plan ‘not good’

GUA MUSANG: The Ladang Rakyat (People’s Plantation) mooted by the Kelantan government will only bring misery and suffering to people earning below RM1,500 monthly, said Umno deputy division chief Mat Yusof Abdul Ghani.

He claimed that the land-sharing system would not benefit the people because in the end, the contracts to manage the land would be given to big companies and the people would remain landless.

“What I understand is that the people taking part in the land scheme will only be paid dividends and nothing more,” he told reporters after handing out RM200 each to 350 students from families that earn less than RM1,500 a month at SK Sri Wangi here.

“What about land ownership? They will never get land titles, as big crony companies would reap the benefits of the large tracts of land.

“The People’s Plantation is sure to be an issue here and we (Umno) will go to town with it in all our ceramah because the people in Gua Musang will be on the losing end.

“We will also bring up the RM4bil gift from a businessman to the PAS central committee. It is impossible for a company to just give money after securing land in Tumpat alone. PAS has a lot of explaining to do.”

Mat Yusof, who is the Nengiri assemblyman, was also confident that PAS would not dare to bring up the oil royalty issue and claim that the Federal Government was victimising the people because the Kelantan Federal Develop-ment Department had disbursed at least RM20mil in compassionate money to poor students who were denied money from the fund for hardcore poor by the PAS Kelantan government.

“The people here are fed-up with the oil royalty issue because they do not feel victimised in anyway whatsoever, and the banners claiming that Kelantanese had been victimsed had been thrown away,” he added.

“The compassionate fund is specially tailored for Kelantanese, and the money is efficiently channelled to them without prejudice.”

He also said that in Galas constituency, there were at least1,500 people from hard-core poor families who needed the compassionate fund to help with their daily expenditures.
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Kelantan wants RM9.7b oil royalty from well on Terengganu border

KOTA BARU: While the claim for RM2bil in oil royalty from the Federal Government has not been resolved, Kelantan has now made a new claim for RM9.7bil from oil production bordering with Terengganu.

State Economic Planning, Finance and Welfare Committee chairman Datuk Husam Musa claimed that an oil production platform known as the Star Platform, which had been in operation since 1984 between Kelantan and Terengganu waters, had reaped RM9.7bil in oil royalty for the Federal Government.

He said the claim was made based on the press statement given by former Kelantan Mentri Besar Tan Sri Mohamad Yaakob on Sept 5, 1990 that Kelantan was willing to share with Terengganu the revenue from the oil well bordering the two states.

”For now, we are only sure about the location of one oil production platform while we are studying two others to find out whether they too are operating at the Kelantan-Terengganu offshore border.

”We will find a way for Petronas to reconsider the status of a number of overlapping oil wells between Kelantan and Terengganu. We have officially conveyed our stand and views as well as our claims to Petronas, and it is up to them to decide on the amount,” he told a news conference here on Monday.

Last year, Kelantan made a claim from the Federal Government for RM2bil in royalty from oil production in its waters and voiced its intention to take the matter to court.

However, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the Federal Government would replace the oil royalty with wang ehsan (compassionate payment) for the state beginning this year, from oil production which was outside Kelantan’s coastal waters.

He had said the Kelantan government had no right to oil royalty as the two disputed oil wells were located 150 nautical miles from Kelantan’s coastal waters.

On the meeting between the state government and Petronas last Friday, Husam described it as positive while the state government had made it known that the payment must be made to the state government and it did not recognise oil royalty in the form of wang ehsan.

He said from the meeting, he gathered that Petronas had paid the Federal Government RM75mil in oil royalty from 2007 to 2008 and for 2009, it was estimated to be RM50mil, and that amount should be received by Kelantan.
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UMNO deputy division chief Mat Yusof Abdul Ghani should not be giving Kelantanese HARAM Deal.

The Oil Royalty issue is very much alive in the hearts of the Kelantanese. The RM2 billion owing to them can bring in modern infrastructure, better medical care, better education and better living condition.

Mat Yusof is one of many UMNO Malays in Kelantan, who enjoyed and received haram money from the Federal Government. Now talk about RM20 million in compassionate money to poor students and 1,500 hard-core families in Galas Constituency. Had Che Hashim Sulaima not died, Mat Yusof would not had remember the hard-core in Galas.

Mat Yusof my question to you is, "what is RM20 million compassionate money when the Federal Government had stolen and acted in HARAM manner over the RM2 billion owing to KELANTANESE."

The day Sultan Muhammad V becomes the Agong, I believe people like Mat Yusof would pound on their chest saying they should have die alongside with Che Hashim Sulaiman.