MANY well-wishers and friends have asked me for reasons of my incessant promotion of “SABAHANS FIRST POLICY”. The best analogy is this.
Once upon a time there was a very rich man [Sabah] who has been favoured by God with everything, nice warm weather, consistent rainfall, vast tracts of fertile land, huge natural forests [reputedly best in the world], surrounding seas filled with fish and other marine lives.
Yes, he also owned vast deposit of oil and gas, minerals! This rich man delegated the management of his vast empire to a few trusted children [politicians] with instructions to ensure that all his family members [Sabahans] must be well taken care.
His trusted children [politicians] were either incapable or greedy and prone to corruption. They collaborated with outsiders [W Malaysians, Sarawakians] to enrich themselves. Over a period of time, most of the trees were felled until much of the forests have become “botak”. Most of the best lan