Using Police To Secure Victory Warisan

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IT'S not right to make public a police finding that the authority will mobilise their assets to stamp out attempta by 'foreign agents' planning to disrupt polling day in Sabah on September 26. Not right and not advisable at all.
It might drive away the voters from polling stations and the Election Commission's target of getting between 75-85 per cent turnout on that day will end up in despair. Some people may choose to stay home instead of going out on that particular day.
Perhaps it has something to do with politics. There were reports than the Warisan government was using security forces to degrade the ruling party BN-PN by accusing it of doing little in beefing up security in the state, and that Tanduo invasion by the Suluks in 2013 was a result of 'ignorance' by Putrajaya.
Some described it as a lame tactic in wooing voters to choose them again. Not few linked it to Warisan effort in stopping BN-PN supporters.
I am not sure about it but if it is established, this in morally and politically wrong. Bad move on skunk intention.
Yesterday, one of Warisan's candidates Mohammadin Ketapi likened the 2013 Tanduo incident in Lahad Datu to 'a war againts chicken and dogs', and that the army had dramatised it.
I take this as an insult to the victims, familes and the security forces as a whole. Most of them are still spending sleepless night over the bad experience seven years ago. And here, the candidate mocked the security operation and liberated the land.
Is this the kind of leaders Sabahans want and should vote for? Leave in to them but my immediate response is that this guy must face the music for his bad mouth.
Sabah too needs a government that are parallel with Putrajaya. Warisan boss Shafie Apdal said in Putatan last Friday that the central government has responsibilty in aiding Sabah and prosper it, irrespective of whether the state government is pro or anti-Putrajaya.
Wrong!
According to BN chairman Zahid Hamidi, Sabah must have an administration that can work closely and on the same turf with Putrajaya since almost all financial aid comes from them. Having an opposition state government will only dampen efforts to channel significant assistance to the people.
I concur with Zahid. Shafie must admit the fact that almost nothing was done in uplifting the Sabahans' economic standard over the last 25 months. This was the general answer given to party workers in most parts of the state.
Even when he was Rural Development minister under the BN government, he didn't really help the state although billions of ringgit was given for Sabah alone. I don't wanna know where the money was but not much development was done.
We have another five more days to polling. As Zahid puts it, "Choose rightly this time around, any mistakes will plunge Sabahans deeper into problem..."

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