Ku Li to Orang Asal: "Mahathir fvcked you, I love you ..."
Ku Li reassures the Orang Asli community
GUA MUSANG, Oct 29 — The wet and slippery dirt road into the interior made travel difficult, even in four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Age was also not on the side of the 73-year-old Barisan Nasional (BN) election director for the Galas state by-election.
But Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah had only one thing on his mind yesterday — to meet the Orang Asli community in two settlements, even if it were to take him all day to do so.
He accomplished the mission, spending almost 12 hours from 8.30am!
Some of the vehicles in the convoy got caught, at times, in the slush dirt road leading to Pos Balar, some 90km and four hours inland, and then on to Pos Hau, another four hours away.
Tengku Razaleigh, who is highly regarded by the Orang Asli in Gua Musang, spoke to the more than 100 Orang Asli in Pos Balar, assuring them that the BN federal government had not marginalised them from mainstream development.
“The federal government has provided various basic infrastructure, such as clinics and schools, and an allocation of RM10.8 million for the development of the Orang Asli in Gua Musang,” he told the residents.
He said he would negotiate with the PAS government of Kelantan to give land to the Orang Asli for use as housing sites, burial ground and farmland so that they have property to pass on to their future generations.
“The ‘ladang rakyat’ apparently implemented for the benefit of the Orang Asli is nonsense because they become mere coolies when what they want is their own land,” he said.
Tengku Razaleigh spent about an hour meeting the people of Pos Balar and then moved on to Pos Hau, by road for another four hours, to meet about 200 people.
Speaking to reporters later, he said the Orang Asli community raised questions with him, many regarding land.
“They want to own land and want to retain their reserve land without exploitation by anyone. They have lost much farmland and hunting ground, forcing them to lose their source of livelihood,” he said, adding that he would raise the matter with the state government.
The Galas state constituency has 1,889 Orang Asli voters in five settlements — Pos Balar, Pos Hendrop, Pos Bihai, Pos Hau and Pos Brooke.
The by-election on Nov 4 is a straight fight between Abdul Aziz Yusoff of the BN and Dr Zulkefli Mohamad of PAS. It has been necessitated by the death of the assemblyman, Che Hashim Sulaima (rpt) Sulaima, 46, of PAS, on Sept 27. — Bernama
Joker · 12 hours ago
First time visitng after so long and so happen its a by-election.
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jeager · 11 hours ago
You need to have by-election if you either want to meet your representative or development, otherwise you will never see even their shadow until the next GE. Don't the people who are the beneficiaries of the country deserve better than this! By the way, empty gong make the loudest noise. On what basis is Tengku made such promises to the orang asli when he is not even someone in the government service?
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amoker · 12 hours ago
yalar tu .... lepas election tengok.
Kat Hulu Selangor Kamal buat promise kat orang asli pun tak tunaikan.
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notjoking · 12 hours ago
what about the sabah, where all the oil and timber money have come from? how can it be the poorest state in the country?
and sabah is still handing over 90-95% of their revenue over to KL for them to build RM5bil monuments!
1malaysia my behind!
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kumwah · 12 hours ago
If I was not wrong , he was the first Malay finance minister and the first finance minister from Kelantan. He could have allocated a lot of funds to help them long time ago if he wanted to. Why now only ask funds from PAS government when PAS government also has to sue federal government for their share of oil royalty . Currently at federal level , he is not even a minister and does his own UMNO even listen to him?
If he has helped them with all his heart when he is the finance minister, the poor Orang Asli could become the richest group in this country by now!
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Parameswara · 11 hours ago
"They want to own land and want to retain their reserve land without exploitation by anyone. They have lost much farmland and hunting ground, forcing them to lose their source of livelihood,”
Aiyoh, why suddenly talk like that ah?
The other orang aslis in Malaysia also want the same thing but the fellows who now have the highways and KLIAs did not pay much attention to such needs then.
Why only now want to make it an issue? Because Kelantan is under PAS?
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ali kutu · 11 hours ago
enough is enough ini proverb orang putih. sudah lah BN bagi projek sub kat orang lain itu ler kerja orang UMNO
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ColourBlind · 10 hours ago
Kuli is powerless in BN, he provides sympathetic ears but nothing more than that!
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onenight4 · 8 hours ago
Ku Li, don't trick the Orang Asli with promises because you can't do anything after the by-election. How dare you to reassure the Orang Asli, when, you are just a stagnant and ineffective MP, not wanted by Umno to be in any ministry. Be sensible and don't keep bluffing the Orang Asli with promises which you can never fulfill.
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bak_zhang · 8 hours ago
Ku Li is the right man, in the wrong party....
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Nobody · 5 hours ago
won't be left out of mainstream development??? how about your federal gov't build a proper ROAD first?
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