DEOpinion 'Who can we complain to about Sabah’s highest poverty rate if we can’t or don’t know how to harass land for our benefits.' - Datuk John Lo
The terms of most of the 33 FMUs have reportedly not been supervised for compliance.3,574,468 hectares
But why are Sabahans the poorest in Malaysia? The answer lies in the lack of economic leadership, lack of strategy and poor management. Our land management is epitomical of the past sorry state of affairs. Little or no attention has been paid to manage our land to derive long term sustainable income. Not even one of the 4 major land uses is giving a decent return for Sabahans.Revenue from timber/forest was the single biggest revenue for the government.
Many leaders who have used political influence to alienate vast track of land in the 1980s and 1990s sold them for quick profits. They never had the intention or the capacity to develop their alienated land. It was just pure greed of grab and grab and quick sales to West Malaysians. Here are the results: [a] Sabah has now been left with little land for commercial food crop, less than 10 % of the total agriculture land.
Unfortunately, the CM rotation system prevented him from overseeing the implementation of FMUs. Had Yong Teck Lee’s FMU initiative been successful, Sabah would have plenty of logs from forest plantations by now. Sabah would also have a booming timber downstream.
Stop managing our forests, oil palm industry to please foreigners, including foreign NGOs Stop rejoicing and basking in their praises.
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