Federal Government belongs to all states
The state of Terengganu just got their long due share of oil royalty from the Federal government and all seem to settle down but come to think of it, why did the Federal government had to undergo all such fuss about the money belonging to a state just because the state is controlled by the Opposition? To my knowledge the royalty is the right of certain or all oil producing state like Terengganu, Sarawak and Sabah. So, what is the Federal legal basis of withholding the money rightfully belonging to the states?
When a state which is entitled to the royalty suddenly fall to the Opposition immediately the Federal stop paying the money and now they call it 'Wang Ehsan' as if the the respective state is begging for the money rightfully belonging to them. On the surface, this is totally wrong, bias and discriminating and most importantly is against the principle of democracy. The Federal is insulting and punishing the people for their choice of government.
Something need to be done fast to ameliorate this injustice. All this while the BN controlled government has been promoting for democracy but what they are doing is something totally out of democracy. Maybe this is the one they call 'demokrasi terpimpin' or guided democracy. Rather it is more to selective and bias democracy. The people should not be punished for their choice of government since this is the core of democracy which Malaysia has been practising or known to practise since its independence. While the BN led government condemns the injustice inflict upon Aung San Suu Kyi but they seem to suffer from chronic amnesia and delusion when they do the same to any oil producing states when they fall to the Opposition.
However, such trend does not limited to oil producing states but also to other states as well. The Federal government seem bent and its like a convention to withhold grants and so forth to the state whenever they choose parties bearing the symbols other than the Scale. They give thousands different kind of reasons to withhold funds to the extent of letting the people suffer. Such gangster-like and despotic way of selective preference seem to backfire during the March 8 election whereby BN lost five states to the People's Pact. What is even funnier is their campaign to take over Kelantan too backfire with disastrous result.
Justice should not only be said but it must be seen and what the BN led government is doing is totally unacceptable. They people have decided and therefore BN need to bite the reality and continue giving the fund and not establishing alien bodies to disperse the fund like the JKK Pusat in certain states as well as establishing the Federal Secretary offices in Opposition-led states. Just give or render whatever they deserve as this is a principle of Islam of which the BN particularly UMNO has been telling the people as one of the core struggle.
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