SRI AMAN, Feb 21 – The Barisan Nasional (BN) government promised to continue working hard to further develop Sarawak with more development agenda to be implemented, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Taking some lines from a local song, “Wawasan Berkikis Bulu Betis” as symbolic to that promise, he said it portrayed BN’s seriousness in continuing
the development effort to assist the people of the state.
The song “Wawasan Berkikis Bulu Betis” was composed by Andrewson Ngalai to portray Sarawakians’ determination to progress despite whatever the challenges faced.
“I ask that the people (of Sarawak) to continue giving the mandate to us through a majority in the 13th general election for the BN government to complete the agenda…there’s a lot we can do with solid cooperation from the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.
“Please believe that much change will take place in Sarawak. I promise that I will continue to work hard like in ‘Wawasan Berkikis Bulu Betis’…we will ensure Sarawak will continue to belong to BN,” he said before some 5,000 residents of Sri Aman at a leader-meet-the-people event held at Padang KPS Lama, here, today.
Also present were Najib’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Taib and his wife Puan Sri Ragad Kurdi, and several federal and state cabinet ministers. Earlier, Najib and his wife were welcomed on arrival by a lion dance, hadrah singing and the beatings of gongs by residents before an Iban traditional vest, the “baju burung” with pua kumbu motif was put on him.
In his speech, Najib also advised the people of Sarawak to choose a party that managed to form a government and proven to have brought major transformations to the country.
“Choose a government that when it makes a promise, that promise is fulfilled…now that we have the tagline ‘Janji Ditepati’ (Promises Fulfilled), it has become stuck with BN to the extent of making the opposition nervous because the slogan is put into practice by BN,” he said.
Citing the four states under opposition rule, he said the promise they made in the 2008 general election had not been fulfilled until now.
“The opposition in the peninsula controls four states. Please ask the people in Selangor how many of their promises have been kept.
“If the promises of a monthly allowance for single mothers, kindergarten fee payments, free water and no increase in quit rent and assessment rates have not been fulfilled, it is not possible for their promises made to the people of
Sarawak to be fulfilled.”
Najib believed that people in the Sri Aman parliamentary constituency would continue giving their mandate to BN in the upcoming general election.
“I observed and made a simple calculation just now, that based on the majority votes garnered by the constituency’s three BN assemblymen in the 2011 state election, we can get more than 8,000 votes here in the upcoming general election,” he said.
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