Puteri UMNO Sabah lancar kempen sejuta tanda tangan bantah perhimpunan haram BERSIH

Teks/Foto : Liza Din

Kota Marudu : 25 Jun 2011

Pergerakan Puteri UMNO Sabah melancarkan kutipan sejuta tanda tangan bagi membantah penganjuran perhimpunan haram Gabungan Pilihan Raya Bersih dan (Bersih) yang dirancang diadakan pada 9 Julai 2011 ini.


Ketuanya, Musliati Moslimin berkata, kutipan tanda tangan itu adalah bagi membuktikan majoriti rakyat tidak menyokong perhimpunan haram yang mempunyai tujuan bagi menimbulkan ketidaktenteraman kepada situasi politik negara.


Menurut beliau, jika sebelum ini, majoriti rakyat lebih bersikap berkecuali dan mendiamkan diri dengan tindak-tanduk kumpulan tertentu yang didalangi parti politik pembangkang, namun tiba masanya mereka melahirkan protes kepada perhimpunan tersebut.


Beliau berkata demikian semasa melancarkan sejuta tanda tangan bagi membantah Perhimpunan Bersih di Kota Marudu pada 25 Jun 2011. Musliati juga turut melawat Bilik Gerakan Zon 1 di Kudat dan Kota Marudu.


Musliati yang juga Ketua Puteri UMNO Kota Kinabalu berkata, kutipan sejuta tanda tangan itu diharap dapat menyedarkan penganjur Bersih bahawa mereka sebenarnya kumpulan kecil yang terpesong daripada aspirasi rakyat yang mahukan suasana aman dan tenteram selain kestabilan politik dan ekonomi.


"Jika mereka mahu menuntut sesuatu lakukan secara berhemah dan bukannya secara perhimpunan haram yang akan menyusahkan banyak pihak, khususnya orang ramai dan para peniaga," katanya.

Single parent with three young kids living in such deplorable conditions in Kudat, Sabah, Malaysia

This is a common house in Kuala Lumpur and in other parts of Malaysia.


The dilapidated structure where Rosnia Marambal and her three children call home sweet home.

This is a classic example of the abjact poverty still faced by Sabahans in the interior of the state, even after more than 50 years of independence.

The story here as sourced from the Star Online.

When teacher Zahari Mohamad saw that one of his pupils was a slow learner, he became curious about the boy. One day, he asked the boy if he could follow him home.

The teacher was in for a shock.

The nine-year-old boy, Frederik, his sisters Flora Tai Chong, 14, Norhayati Maratim, 11, and their widowed mother Rosnia @ Annie Marambal, 36, were living in abject poverty.

Home for them is a rickety shack in Kampung Kandawayon in Kudat district, about 180km from Kota Kinabalu.

Since her husband's sudden death in January 2011, Rosnia has taken on any job she could lay her hands on from rubber tapping to plucking vegetables to feed her children.

Rosnia, whose family had been living in the dilapidated shack for three years, said their situation took a turn for the worse when her husband died of electrocution in January 2011.

She said she earned a daily wage of bet-ween RM10 and RM20 as an oil palm estate labourer or by helping villagers in their fruit orchards.

“I have to give my children RM3 a day, which means most of the time, we only eat wild vegetables with rice,” she said, adding that she had to fork out RM30 a month in schoolbus fare for her eldest daughter Fiona Tai Chong, 14, a SMK Sikuati student.

Her two other children Norhayati Maratim, 11, and Frederik, 9 are pupils at SK Parapat.

Rosnia said she was still waiting for a reply to her application for assistance under the Hardcore Poor Household Heads scheme in the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry's eKasih programme, which she had submitted a year ago.

Meanwhile, help is beginning to trickle in for Rosnia and her three children, after their plight was highlighted by The Star.

Among the first few to lend a hand was the Girl Guides Association of Malaysia when its state president Datuk Naomi Chong visited Rosnia at her home on Sunday, 5th June 2011.

Apart from handing over food supplies for about a month, Chong presented the family with a RM2,500 donation, partly contributed by Prime Minister's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, who is the association president.

Chong told Rosnia the money had been collected during the association's annual general meeting in Penang last week.


Financial boost: Chong presenting the RM2,500 cheque to Rosnia at her home in Kampung Kandawayon, Kudat, Sabah, East Malaysia on Sunday 5 June 2011

She said Rosmah and delegates at the meeting had decided to pitch in to help the family upon reading about their plight in The Star newspaper.

Meanwhile a new house is going to be built for the poor family, as pledged by the Opposition's Parti Keadilan Rakyat, PKR Supreme Council Member and the Ketua Cabang PKR for Kota Kinabalu, Christina Liew as shown in the video below.



God bless Rosnia and her family.

Sampai bila Kota Marudu harus mengalami masalah Banjir??

Gambar di atas dan lagi gambar dibawah adalah banjir terbaru yang melanda daerah Kota Marudu di utara Sabah pada 13 dan 14 Mac 2011 lalu.

Statistik banjir Kota Marudu pada 14 Mac 2011 :

57 kampung terlibat
936 keluarga terlibat
3,380 orang terlibat
21 pusat pemindahan disediakan

Antara Kampung terlibat banjir di Kota Marudu :

Langkon Lama
Tambun
Marudu Laut
Tonsom
Bengkongan
Popok Laut
Parong
Kuranji
Longob
Pancur
Ranau
Ongkilan
Bintasan Laut
Tanjung Batu
Pekan Lama
Salaping
Marudu Darat

Kasihan penduduknya, sudahlah ramai lagi hidup dalam kesulitan akibat faktor ekonomi, nasib mereka pula malang apabila kesusahan hidup bertambah teruk akibat banjir.












Untuk rekod, daerah Kota Marudu juga pernah dilanda banjir besar pada sekitar waktu yang sama iaitu February hingga Mac 2010 dan juga beberapa tahun sebelumnya.

Sampai bilakah masalah ini akan berakhir?

Untuk rekod, antara Wakil Rakyat di Utara Sabah seperti Kota Marudu dan Kudat termasuklah Menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili (ahli Parlimen Kota Marudu) dan Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan Datuk Rahim Bakri (Ahli Parlimen Kudat)..

Perdana Menteri perlu melihat masalah ini seperti gagasan 1 Malaysia, rakyat didahulukan, pencapaian diutamakan.