SARAWAK LIVE: Wong King Wei

DAP assemblyman blames flash floods on unmaintained drains

KUCHING: The recent flash flood in the city has prompted re-elected Padungan assemblyman Wong King Wei to ask why the local councils did not carry out dredging and cleaning of the drainage system regularly.

Wong, who is state DAP Socialist Youth chief, said local authorities were expected to perform maintenance works including drainage maintenance works regularly. When our people are paying the assessment rate regularly, every six months, the council is duty-bound to carry out the dredging and cleaning of drainage regularly. But this has not been done,” he said yesterday.

According to Wong, the Drainage and Irrigation Department director had on May 20 admitted to the media that one of the main factors for flash floods in the city was blockage of the drainage system, thus, whenever it rained more than 50mm per hour, many places in the city would experience flash floods.

“This proves that my previous statements that the lack of dedication of local authorities (MBKS, MPP and DBKU) and their councillors or members of the management in cleaning and dredging the drains are true.

“The councillors, particularly for the case of MBKS and MPP, are not seen working on the ground. Most of our people do not know who is the councillor in charge of their area. At the end of the day, the complaints on the problems on drainage, rubbish collection, cleanliness, street lights, health all went to the elected representatives.

“This is not a healthy political structure whereby the actual person, such as the councillors, who are responsible for these problems are not asked to be responsible.

During election, Wong added, SUPP candidates particularly would come out to say that they would solve all the basic problems for the people but avoided talking about state and national policies that were haunting the people.

Taking the regular flash flood incident as a measure, he said it was timely for the government to heed DAP’s call for local authorities election.

“We have been usurped of our rights to the third vote that is apart from having rights to vote for our MPs and state assemblymen, we should be returned the rights of choosing our councillors, which we used to have in 1960s.

Wong believed that it is only through local authorities election that the people can force their councillors to be on the ground and be responsible for the problems created by the councils.

“Flash floods in Kuching are a man-made problem. To tackle this problem, we must start with an effective council and working councillors.-Borneo Post

Abdullah Bidas Kenyataan Mencuit Hati Wong King Wei

KUCHING: Pengerusi Kelab Penyokong Barisan Nasional (BNBBC) Sarawak Abdullah Saidol membidas kenyataan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Padungan Wong King Wei yang mengatakan masyarakat Cina terpaksa ‘mengemis’ memohon peruntukan untuk sekolah aliran Cina.

Sambil menyifatkan kenyataan ADUN DAP itu sebagai mencuit hati, beliau berkata adakah selama ini masyarakat Cina di Sarawak dilayani dengan tidak adil sehingga mereka terpaksa ‘mengemis.’

“Cara wakil rakyat DAP ini berfikir memberi gambaran sebenar falsafah politik DAP yang tidak inklusif.

“Perjuangan politik DAP sama sahaja yang diamalkan di Pulau Pinang di mana masyarakat Bumiputera dipinggir serta tersisih,” katanya menerusi satu kenyataan semalam.

Menurutnya, seorang wakil rakyat PKR di Pulau Pinang menangis ketika berucap pada persidangan DUN Pulau Pinang baru-baru ini kerana kawasan beliau tidak mendapat perhatian daripada kerajaan DAP.

Malah, katanya, ada wakil rakyat DAP sendiri mengkritik Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng kerana tidak sensitif dengan permasalahan warga desa di negeri itu.

“Apakah YB Wong lupa sejarah bahawa penubuhan Sekolah-Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina serta ‘persefahaman’ dengan kerajaan untuk membenarkan mereka mengurus sendiri sekolah jenis berkenaan?” soalnya.

Abdullah yang juga ADUN Semop berkata lagi, satu lagi kenyataan Wong yang dianggapnya sebagai melampau ialah apabila dia membuat andaian bahawa Ketua Menteri Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem tidak bekerja keras sehingga rakyat menjadi ‘hamba’ untuk mendapat peruntukan kerajaan.

Katanya, semua pengundi di kawasan DAP Sarawak harus menilai dengan jujur prestasi wakil rakyat dari parti pembangkang itu yang hanya tahu mencari kesalahan orang lain tetapi tidak membawa sebarang perubahan di kawasan masing-masing.

Menurutnya, kebajikan masyarakat Cina akan lebih mendapat perhatian jika wakil rakyat mereka sama-sama berada dalam kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN).

Jika masyarakat Cina Sarawak terus percaya serta terpedaya dengan tipu helah politik DAP yang palsu dan putar belit, katanya, itu pilihan mereka tetapi jangan mengeluh jika kerajaan akan memberi perhatian kepada kawasan pedalaman yang majoritinya masyarakat Bumiputera yang sentiasa setia menyokong polisi pembangunan BN.

“Sekali lagi saya menyeru kepada kerajaan supaya sentiasa memberi perhatian kepada kawasan di mana masyarakatnya sentiasa setia menyokong inisiatif pembangunan kerajaan dan tidak perlu untuk memanja sangat kawasan di mana wakil rakyat mereka sentiasa memperkotak-katikkan usaha kerajaan.

“Adalah malang jika kerajaan BN yang memerintah dan mengurus pentadbiran kerajaan negeri Sarawak tidak ada wakil yang cukup dari kalangan masyarakat Cina.

“Kita ingin bersama-sama warga negeri dari berbilang bangsa membangunkan negeri ini,” katanya. -Utusan Borneo

Wong sokong isu kekurangan kemudahan pengangkutan awam punca kemalangan

KUCHING: Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Padungan Wong King Wei menyokong kenyataan Menteri Pembangunan Infrastruktur dan Perhubungan Dato Sri Michael Manyin berhubung isu peningkatan kemalangan jalan raya berpunca kekurangan kemudahan pengangkutan awam negeri ini.

Ketua Pemuda Parti Rakyat Demokratik (DAP) Negeri itu memberitahu untuk itu kerajaan harus mempertingkat sistem kemudahan pengangkutan awam di Sarawak bagi menangani purata kadar kemalangan jalan raya iaitu 18.3 sehari.

Malah, Wong selalu memperjuang agar sistem pengangkutan awam bandar ditambah baik serta mendesak kerajaan mengkaji jalan penyelesaian terbaik meningkatkan sistem kemudahan pengangkutan awam negeri ini.

“Beliau (Manyin) mengatakan bahawa 18.3 sehari purata kemalangan direkod disebabkan kekurangan kemudahan pengangkutan awam.

“Ini adalah satu kenyataan tepat berbanding PDRM (Polis Diraja Malaysia) yang menyatakan 60 peratus kemalangan jalan raya disebab sikap pengguna itu sendiri,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang media di Ibu Pejabat DAP Negeri di sini, semalam.

Pada masa sama Wong memberitahu kerajaan negeri akan mendapat sekurang-kurangnya empat manfaat sekiranya sistem kemudahan pengangkutan awam dilaksana di setiap bandar di negeri ini.

“Pertama keselamatan jalan raya dipertingkatkan, kedua ia membantu mengurangkan beban rakyat untuk membeli kenderaan sendiri, ketiga mengurangkan pencemaran alam, merancakkan produktiviti bandar dengan kurangnya masalah kesesakan jalan raya,” tambahnya.

Sehubungan itu, tegasnya, Manyin harus proaktif dalam memastikan sistem kemudahan pengangkutan awam memberi manfaat kepada rakyat khususnya di bandar.

Menurutnya lagi, pemohonan peruntukan dari kerajaan persekutuan untuk tujuan itu adalah satu sikap yang pasif dan melambatkan pelaksanaan sistem kemudahan pengangkutan awam di negeri ini.

“Dengan keadaan ekonomi negara dan reputasi pengurusan kewangan di bawah Perdana Menteri adalah sukar untuk meminta peruntukan daripada kerajaan persekutuan,” katanya.

Beliau turut mencadangkan agar Manyin dan Kerajaan Negeri mengguna pakai dasar yang diperkenalkan oleh Kerajaan Negeri Pulau Pinang dan Selangor dalam menyediakan perkhidmatan bas awam percuma kepada rakyatnya.

Justeru, Wong memberitahu pihaknya akan menghantar surat kepada Manyin untuk mengadakan kunjungan hormat bagi membincangkan perkara tersebut dan berharap dapat mengadakan pertemuan selepas Tahun Baharu Cina nanti.

“Bajet kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang 10 kali kurang berbanding Sarawak jadi apabila Pulau Pinang dapat melaksananya, saya yakin Sarawak turut mampu melakukannya,” ujarnya.-Utusan Borneo

CM asked to make annual fund for Chinese schools budgetry

KUCHING: Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem has been called on to come up with a long-term policy on annual allocations for Chinese-medium schools in the state.

Padungan assemblyman Wong King Wei said this would free the Chinese community in Sarawak from becoming ‘beggars’ when it comes to asking for government allocations.

During a press conference yesterday, Wong said Adenan should walk the extra mile and not hold allocations “as ransom against the people”.

“Announcing the RM500,000 grant for Kuching Chung Hua Primary Schools (on Thursday), the chief minister asked the Chinese community to help him when the time comes as he is helping Chinese schools.

“Adenan can make the allocations for Chinese and mission schools budgetary, which means the people would not have to wait for allocations,” he said.

Wong explained that making allocations budgetary would mean Chinese-medium schools would be given a certain amount every year.

“I appreciate the allocations to Chinese schools, but the Chief Minister should come up with a long-term policy benefiting Sarawakians.

“First of all, he has to refrain from the ‘You help me; I help you’ mentality,” he added.-Borneo Post

DAP - SWP : Hanya Kerjasama Bukan Bergabung

KUCHING: Rundingan antara Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) dan Parti Pekerja Sarawak (SWP) mengenai kerjasama atau penggabungan mereka sudah selesai dan kini menanti formaliti untuk mengumumkan hasil rundingan serta bidang kerjasama yang akan dijalankan oleh kedua-dua parti itu.

Wong King Wei, seorang daripada tiga ahli jawatankuasa DAP yang ditugaskan untuk berunding dengan SWP mengenai perkara tersebut, berkata mereka mengadakan beberapa rundingan sejak beberapa bulan lalu dan ia berjalan dengan sangat positif.

Wong turut menganggotai jawatankuasa itu bersama Timbalan Pengerusi DAP Chiew Chin Sing dan Setiausaha Alan Ling.

“Rundingan diadakan semata-mata berdasarkan keikhlasan. Saya percaya jika ada keikhlasan, pada asasnya masalah tidak timbul mengenai bentuk kerjasama nanti,” katanya semalam.

Beliau berkata pertemuan rasmi terakhir antara mereka dengan SWP diadakan pada 10 Oktober tahun lepas.

“Bagi kami, rundingan berjalan dengan sangat baik dan semua syarat kerjasama antara kedua-dua parti sudah dipersetujui,” katanya.

Presiden SWP Larry Sng dalam akhbar bahasa Inggeris tempatan pada minggu lalu dilaporkan sebagai berkata, rundingan tentang penggabungan antara partinya dengan DAP Sarawak gagal mencapai hasrat tersebut.

Sng berkata SWP tidak lagi menimbang penggabungan dalam perbincangan antara kedua-dua parti.

Memandangkan penggabungan di antara SWP dan DAP tidak dapat dilaksanakan, ramai percaya satu-satunya pilihan yang akan diambil oleh kedua-dua parti adalah dalam bentuk kerjasama.- Utusan Borneo

Putting oil royalty hike talks on hold is bad news, says representative

KUCHING: Padungan assemblyman Wong King Wei has urged Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem to come clean on whether he had failed to get the federal government to increase oil royalty for the state.

Wong, also state DAP publicity secretary, said the chief minister’s recent statement that he had to go slow on oil royalty negotiations due to declining world crude oil prices was bad news for Sarawakians.

“If he has failed (in the negotiations), just tell Sarawakians honestly before the state election so Sarawakians can weigh his performance on this matter,” he told a press conference here yesterday.

Last year, the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) unanimously passed a resolution to entrust Adenan to negotiate with the federal government to increase oil royalty from the current five per cent to 20 per cent.

Wong recalled that during the last DUN sitting, Assistant Minister of Industrial Development (Investment and Promotion) Datuk Julaihi Narawi, in answering a question raised by Sadong Jaya assemblyman Aidel Lariwoo, said that as at Jan 1 this year, the discovered oil resources from Sarawak was estimated at around 11 billion barrel oil equivalent, which is approximately 47 per cent of the overall discovered petroleum resources in Malaysia.

Julaihi, in responding to a supplementary question by Aidel, also said the state’s crude oil resources were expected to last for another 25 years.

Wong said based on what was disclosed by Julaihi and taking into account what Adenan had said, it was very bad news for Sarawakians, given that there was not much crude oil resources left in the state.

“We surrendered ownership of our petroleum resources to Petronas due to the Petroleum Act in 1974. It is now 2016 and the chief minister is still asking us to wait and put on hold the negotiations. How long more are we going to wait? We have only 25 years of resources left.”

On another matter, Wong said he was not optimistic that Adenan would accept the idea of enacting a Referendum Act or Ordinance in the state, even with the 300,000 signatures collected from Sarawakians supporting the plea.

“I do not think that he (Adenan) wants Sarawak to be more democratic. Looking at his actions before this, the first measure he did after taking office (as chief minister) was increasing the DUN seats from 71 to 82, and none of them was in urban areas—where the population density and increase in population over the years were the highest.

“We could see that the 11-seat increment destroyed the whole democracy system because it did not reflect the one man, one vote, one value principle.”

On the state’s pursuit of education autonomy, Wong claimed the federal government promised to give the state government autonomy in the sense that state education agencies would have the right to choose the contractors for school construction.

“To me, this is not autonomy. This is autonomy in terms of business. When we talk about education autonomy, it means the state will have the power to decide on syllabus and be given funds to engage local teachers, fund missionary schools, Chinese education and so on.”-Borneo Post

BN Sarawak tolak autonomi?

Ketua Menteri Sarawak Tan Sri Adenan Satem mesti menjelaskan mengapa anggota parlimen dan senator negeri itu dibenarkan menyokong dalam meluluskan rang undang-undang Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN) 2015.

Perkara ini dibangkitkan oleh anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Padungan, Wong King Wei (gambar) yang berkata undang-undang itu akan memberi kesan kepada rakyat di Sarawak.

“Adenan mesti jawab kenapa beliau benarkan MP dan senator dari Sarawak menyokong untuk meluluskan undang-undang zalim bagi menyekat suara rakyat Sarawak?” Soal Wong dalam kenyatannya hari ini.

Beliau berkata, rang undang-undang MKN itu akan membawa negara kepada pentadbiran diktator dan memusnahkan sistem demokrasi.

"Namun anggota Parlimen dari Sarawak dan senator menyokong untuk meluluskan rang undang-undang di kedua-dua Dewan Rakyat dan Dewan Negara.

"Ini menunjukkan bahawa BN Sarawak tidak ingin melihat lebih banyak autonomi bagi rakyat Sarawak," katanya.

Minta PM tahan dulu?

Dalam kenyataan berasingan, Ketua Parlimen DAP Lim Kit Siang meminta Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Paul Low sama ada beliau akan meminta Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak untuk menahan rang undang-undang MKN sehingga ia dipinda.

Ia kerana, komen Low semalam bahawa berkata jika kerajaan takutkan tuhan, tiada keperluan lagi untuk beliau berada dalam kabinet.

Lim berkata, Low yang merupakan menteri yang bertanggungjawab bagi tadbir urus dan integriti, perlu mendapatkan Najib bagi mengkaji dan meminda Rang Undang-undang kerana ia melanggar dua prinsip Rukun Negara.-Malaysiakini

'DAP Sarawak dedah cerita sebenar pemansuhan tol Lanang'

KUCHING: ADUN Pandungan, YB Wong King Wei hari ini mendedahkan kisah sebenar disebalik pemansuhan tol Lanang, Sibu yang mana katanya syarikat pengendali tol, Woodville SDN BHD membeli tanah berkenaan dengan harga cuma RM360 seekar.

"Dari Laporan Audit Tahunan, kos pembinaan tol lanang adalah sebanyak RM180.28 juta dan ia siap pada tahun 2006 dengan harga tanah cuma RM360 seekar, syarikat tersebut mengaut keuntungan yang sangat besar", kata beliau.

"Selama 8 tahun rakyat yang tinggal di sekitar bandar Sibu dan Sarikei membayar minimum RM3.30 untuk lalu di tol Lanang. Dengan kos pembinaan yang sangat minima dan kadar tol yang mahal, rakyat tidak perlu berterima kasih kepada kerajaan diatas pemansuhan tol itu", ujar beliau dalam sidang akhbar di Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak hari tadi.

YB Wong Kee Woan dalam sidang media yang sama menambah,"Sejak tahun 2013 hingga 2015, syarikat Woodville SDN BHD telah mengaut keuntungan lebih kurang RM20 juta setiap tahun dan nilai keseluruhan sekitar RM65juta.

"Rakyat sepatutnya berterima kasih kepada DAP Sarawak kerana pemansuhan tol Lanang adalah hasil usaha kami", tegas ADUN PELAWAN itu.

Sebelum ini, Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Adenan Satem telah mengumumkan pemansuhan tol Lanang berkuatkuasa 25 Mei 2015.

Pada sidang DUN Sarawak yang pertama pada tahun 2015 sebelum ini juga, Adenan tegas menyatakan bahawa pemansuhan tol Lanang tiada kena mengena dengan usaha DAP Sarawak.-SarawakLIVE

CMO rebuts allegation on land alienation

KUCHING: The Chief Minister’s Office has denied the allegation made by Padungan Assemblyman Wong King Wei regarding the alienation of 22 parcels of land in Lundu and said it is “highly questionable”, ill-founded and malicious in its intention.

In a statement issued here yesterday, it clarified the 22 parcels of land in Lundu as quoted by Wong were approved for alienation on September 3, 2009 as part of “payment-in-kind” for The Design, Construction and Completion of Bridges in Sarawak.

“At the relevant time when approval was given, the incumbent (of Tanjung Datu seat, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem) was not yet the Chief Minister of Sarawak and was not responsible for matters related to land.”

The statement was issued in response to an article in Malaysiakini titled “Has Adenan gone back to old ways of giving out cheap lands”.

The Chief Minister’s Office also mentioned that in accordance to 2009’s approval, the Land and Survey issued Provisional Leases over those land with agriculture as the approved land use on March 17, 2004.

At the same time and in view of the approved use, premium was charged based on existing circular directives (Land Administration Circular No. 4/1993 and No. 3/2000), where for agriculture land of size below 100 acres, the premium charged is RM200 per acre, while for agriculture land of size 100 acres or more, the premium charged is RM300 per acre.

It is to be noted that out of the total of 22 parcels of subject land, 17 parcels are of size below 100 acres each, added the statement.

As such, the alienation of those lands were done in strict adherence to existing procedure and practices.

“As for the rate of premium that had been in use by the Land and Survey Department, this may be reviewed from time to time, depending on need.

“Hence, to say that the alienation of land here is “highly questionable”, is not only ill-founded but malicious in its intention,” the statement ended.

Wong, who is also DAP Sarawak publicity secretary, had claimed the alienation of land was done under Adenan’s administration, and it was ‘ highly questionable’.-Borneo Post