By Voon Lee Shan President
Parti Bumi Kenyalang
KOTA KINABALU: In the past years, since as President of Parti Bumi Kenyalang (PBK), l have many times been called for investigation concerning the right of Sabah and Sarawak to seek independence from Malaysia.
A few days ago I was again called by the police for investigation concerning the issue of the right to seek independence by Sabah and Sarawak from the federation of Malaysia, but, I have told the investigating officer that I could not attend yet, because I have to continue to handle a dangerous drugs trial in court.
The officer was kind enough to defer the investigation to the next few days.
My explanation to police about this right will we nothing new and l hope the relevant authorities and members of the public stop to harass me about this issue. They can always look in my previous statements. It’s a waste of manpower and govenment fund to carry on repeating the same thing all over again and again.
As a lawyer and in exercising my freedom of speech and the right for public to know l was just explaining the law and expressing my opinion about right to independence.
Whether people of Sabah and Sarawak want to exit from Malaysia or is their choice, but as a lawyer, I have a right to express my opinion.
Being involved in politics passionate in protecting the constitution and Sarawak rights, there is a reasonable expectation from members of the public that I should explain and express my opinion about the rights of independence by colonies in the world.
I beg to tell the relevant authorities and also to fellow Sarawakians and Sabahans that such harrassments will not stop me from speaking the truth and speaking about rights of Sarawak and Sabah under international law and under the federal and state constitutions.
Even if I stop talking, many will come forward to speak on the issues.
You can kill a soul from speaking but you cannot kill his voice from speaking because others will speak for him even if he could not more speak.
Sabah and Sarawak were once colonies of the United Kingdom but by the dubious Malaysia Agreement (MA63), were handed to Malaya by the United Kingdom (UK) to enlarge Malaya effective 16 September 1963.
Malaya then advised the United Nations Secretariat that with the acquisition of Sarawak and Sabah as part of Malaya, Malaya has changed name to Malaysia.
Therefore, is is difficult to deny Sabah and Sarawak are not colonies of Malaya. We could see when a country became colonies of a foreign country, the foreign country will normally take and exploit the natural and manpower resources of their colonies to develop their own country. Being in Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak lost their oil and gas resources in tens of billions ringgit every year to the federal government of Malaya (Malaysia).
According to legal experts, Malaysia Agreement 1963( MA63) is an invalid Treaty and if invalid, this means, Malaysia could not be formed in the first place. The failure to incorporate MA63 in the federal constitution prior to recent amendment to the constitution posed a serious legal issue that Sabah and Sarawak were not part of MALAYSIA before MA63 ( if valid) was recognised by the federal constitution.
May it be made known to all that is also a legal opinion by a prominent lawyer in Malaya that
the failure or non-compliance to fulfill the 18 and 20 points raised by Sarawak and Sabah for the Malaysia Agreement until now, means that Sabah and Sarawak may wish or can think whether to stay or to exit from the federation of Malaysia.
Singapore exited from the federation of Malaysia by mutual consent but Lee Kuan Yew told his insiders it was a “bloodless coup” carefully planned to exit.
