The shocking admission recently by Nabawan Assemblyman Datuk Abdul Ghani Mohd Yassin on his decision to apply for and claim 320 acres of prime land in Nabawan took many by surprise.
After years, even decades, hundreds of Sarawak Land Grab cases are still wending their way through the courts, long after the native lands in question have been plundered and destroyed. Apart from the sickening delay in receiving justice whilst illegal timber and plantation operations are allowed to just continue, one glaring issue that still is being ignored in these David and Goliath battles is that the concessions themselves were almost without exception the product of corrupt cronyism and nepotism under the rule of the former chief minister and current billionaire Governor of the state, Taib Mahmud....