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Insulting to spy on party colleagues, says Yong |
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 11:02 |
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KOTA KINABALU: It is an insult to Sabah Barisan Nasional leaders if their counterparts from Peninsular Malaysia are to check if they are planning to defect to the Opposition, said Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Yong Teck Lee.
“This is a form of spying on their Barisan colleagues in Sabah and Sarawak. I find this to be insulting,” he told reporters yesterday at the SAPP mobile centre in Foh Sang here. Yong said it was not right for the Barisan and Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to send people to the two states to check on Barisan MPs “as though we are less loyal than the MPs in Peninsular Malaysia”. “We deserve more respect from the Barisan leadership,” he said, adding that SAPP had made it clear to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister during a meeting on March 13 that they would not defect. “I gave my clear answer that SAPP MPs will not defect to the Opposition. Not that they have been approached or anything like that but defecting has never crossed our minds,” he said, adding that they were asked to inform the leadership if they were approached. Yong hoped that Sabah leaders would use the mandate given to them to find comprehensive solutions to the perennial illegal immigrant problem, obtain massive support for the padi sector to help Sabah achieve self-sufficiency, abolish double taxation of the state’s palm oil industry and dismantle the Federal Department of Development which could be deployed to one of the five states not ruled by the Barisan. - STAR
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