Kudos!!!

Three cheers to Datuk Harris Mohd Salleh for voicing out the need for Sabah and Sarawak to demand for more oil royalties from the federal government.

In The Borneo Post news article dated 7th September 2008, Datuk Harris has signalled for the east Malaysian states to pass a motion to demand an increase in oil royalties from 5% to 25% in the next state legislative assemblies.

It is quite a shock that our state's oil royalties are only 5%!!!

We definately deserve more than 10% if not 25% let alone the measely 5% that the government is giving back to us for our own oil. No wonder our states in the east is so under developed compared to our counterparts in the west. What have all the ministers been doing all this while by just accepting 5%??!!! What an embarrassment.....

Sarawak is about the size of the whole of the peninsular of Malaysia and while they get 95% of the royalties from the oil that we produce to develop themselves, they expect us to develop our state with the 5% that they pitifully leave for us.....how fair is that???

I wonder which mathematically damaged brained clown who iniatially agreed to this percentage. Even a fetus would know that 95% against 5% just ain't a fair split.

What's worst is that we have to pay the same retail price for fuel as our fellow countrymen in the west even though we are the ones producing oil.....