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Anwar’s hand in Lahad Datu isn’t credible theory!

By Joe Fernandez
There is quite a bit of material in the mainstream and alternative media hinting, suggesting and even accusing Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim as the arch villain behind the Lahad Datu intrusion and subsequent standoff.

As the various conspiracy theories go, this is the weakest of them all. We can only await the proposed Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Lahad Datu with bated breaths.

Anwar may have met Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader Nur Misuari in Jakarta and Manila, as reported by several sources including Malaysia Today. However, such meetings by themselves tell nothing. Both men were longtime friends. The MNLF Leader may have wanted to catch up with the Opposition Leader because he’s also the Prime Minister in Waiting.

Usno bidas PKR cuba kaitkan Tun Datu Mustapha untuk bersihkan Anwar



As-salamualaikum dan Salam Perjuangan,

Kenyataan  Rasmi  dari Urusetia  Penaja  USNO  Sabah yang  merujuk  kepada  Laporan  Daily Express bertarikh 1hb. Mac 2013 di Muka Hadapan bertajuk : WAS TUN MUSTAPHA ALSO INVOLVED?

“STAR NOW BIG PARTY IN SABAH”- Dr. Jeffrey

Star Sabah first anniversary
“STAR is no longer a “mosquito” party but a strong and significant political party in Sabah with a big following” said Datuk Dr.Jeffrey Kitingan, Chairman of STAR SABAH during STAR Sabah’s first anniversary last weekend.

“Compared to PKR which took six to seven years to get about 60,000 members, STAR has attracted 270,000 members within a short span of 12 months” he said.

Umno fears a revived Usno?

KOTA KINABALU: Is the acronym Usno and its equally colourful founder Datu Mustapha Datu Harun so powerfully etched in the minds of Sabahans that Umno fears its resurrection before the 13th general election?

Is this “fear” the reason why the Umno-led federal government has kept former members of United Sabah National Organisation (Usno) waiting in the wings for approval of their party?

Two years on, ex-members of Usno are fuming over the choke-hold grip the federal government and Umno have on Sabah and its future.

‘Umno tore apart my father’s legacy’

By Luke Rintod of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah governor and chief minister Tun Mustapha Harun’s son has accused Umno of betraying his father’s trust and tearing apart his legacy.

Badaruddin Tun Mustapha said it was ironical that Umno, the party that his father had helped enter into Sabah politics, had plundered the state and reduced its immense wealth and power to a few handouts from the federal government.

Usno old hands to ‘power-up’ Jeffrey’s party

By Luke Rintod of FMT
PAPAR: One of the sons of former Sabah chief minister Tun Mustapha Harun who has been trying to revive his father’s party is determined that the state Umno-led Barisan Nasional coalition government be replaced by a Sabah-based political party.

Badaruddin Tun Mustapha said that Usno whether registered or not would stick with State Reform Party (STAR) Sabah chairman, Jeffrey Kitingan, in facing the coming general election for the sake of Sabah’s future and dignity.

“Tripartite United Borneo Alliance Agreed in Sabah”

SAPP, STAR and USNO party logo.
“The local opposition in Sabah will be a tripartite coalition comprising STAR, USNO and SAPP under the United Borneo Alliance (UBA) and we will now discuss with the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to form a united opposition to oust the current Umno/BN Governments” announced Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chairman.


STAR Committed to UBA and United Opposition

“The recent report of young turks in STAR wishing to go alone is totally false and baseless. STAR Sabah is fully committed to the United Borneo Alliance (UBA) and a united opposition to oust the current Umno/BN Governments” stated Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chairman.

“STAR has also sealed the Semporna Declaration with USNO and their supporters sealing the unity of ethnic Sabahans where candidates from USNO will contest under the USNO banner and USNO supporters will support all STAR candidates throughout Sabah.”

USNO Supports UBF and Forms Alliance to Fight for Sabah’s Rights

The newly revived USNO became the latest entity to support the United Borneo Front (UBF) and the fight for the restoration of Sabah’s rights in Malaysia. This was the message conveyed by protem USNO Vice-President, Abdullah Sani Hj. Salleh and protem Secretary-General, Datuk Arifin Datuk Abdul Salam in the presence of USNO die-hard supporters at a recent gathering at the birthplace of USNO in Kg. Tanjung Kapur, Kudat.


DR. J : UBF Commemorates USNO’s 50th Year At Its Birthplace

The United Borneo Front (UBF) led by its founding Chairman, Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, and its Natives Land and NCR Panel Taskforce chief, Phillip Among, joined in the impromptu celebrations to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of USNO during a recent Borneo Tea Party cum Family Day gathering held at Kg. Tanjung Kapor, Kudat, on 26th November, which was also attended by USNO die-hard supporters led by protem USNO Vice-President, Abdullah Sani and protem Secretary-General, Datuk Arifin Datuk Abdul Salam.

Sabah Umno has forgotten Usno’s sacrifice

Former Usno members, unhappy with Umno's short memory, are seeking
to reactivate their party in time for the 13th general election.
KOTA KINABALU: United Sabah New Organisation (Usno) have given the Registrar of Societies (ROS) and the Home Ministry 14 days to decide on the party’s application to be registered.

According to protem president Badaruddin Tun Mustapha, Usno had submitted its application to ROS Sabah on Oct 26 last year.

He said ROS Sabah had, when asked, told them that the file was now in Putrajaya.

Badaruddin said when protem vice president Abdullah Sani Abdul Salleh checked with ROS on June 28 this year, Abdullah was told that the file was now with the Home Ministry.

Fedup with the runaround, Badaruddin said they were giving the ROS and Home Ministry 14 days to respond to their official letter requesting an answer to the application.

“Failing this, our next course of action would be to ask for the Yang diPertuan Agong to step in.

“In this respect, Usno members will be handing a memorandum to the King through the Sabah Head of State,” he told a press conference in Beverly Hotel here yesterday.

Badaruddin said Usno’s protem committee during its meeting on Monday had also decided to urge the Barisan Nasional government to be transparent in its action against Usno, which he said was the party that gained independence for Sabah.

Ungrateful Umno

He said the BN government should be fair to Sabahans and allow former Usno members to reactivate the party, just like those in Peninsular Malaysia such as the Makkal Sakti, which only took about 60 days to be approved.

If the party failed to be registered by the 13th general election, Badaruddin said Usno will find other ways to use their own symbol and party name to contest.

Badaruddin, who is former Chief Minister Tun Mustapha Harun’s fourth son, said the new Usno is a party for all Malaysians unlike its predecessor.

According to him, the decision to revive the party with the same acronym of the United Sabah National Organisation (Usno) that was founded by his father was in response to the members displeasure over the non-approval of Club Usno, which they applied to be registered as an NGOs in 2006.

Badaruddin, 51, claims that the number of Club Usno members has grown to 100,000 throughout Sabah and that most of the old Usno members, particularly in the East Coast had never joined Umno.

“Usno is Usno and Umno is Umno but we are disappointed that Umno has forgotten about Usno, which brought them to Sabah,” he said of the deal which his father made that allowed the peninsula-based party to spread its wing to Sabah in 1994/1995.

Asked how confident he was that the Home Ministry would approve their application, he said: “The hope is thin but we are confident.

“If registered, Usno plans to contest all 60 state seats in the coming general election.”

Challenging Umno

On whether Usno would be aligned to BN or opposition or perhaps form a pact, he said: “We’ll cross the bridge when we get there”.

“In politics our door is always open,” said Badaruddin, who had contested in 1994 in Usukan for the PBS Plus (a pact between Usno and Parti Bersatu Sabah).

If registered as a party, Usno is expected to put up a strong challenge against Umno and other state political parties in the general elections.

“I remember a deputy chief minister said a few weeks ago that if you want to make noise, contest in the general election then we can tell who is greater.

“So I asked Yahya Hussin (deputy CM) please help us to approve our party then we can know whether Umno can beat Usno or not,” he said.

Nearly 50 members representing the various constituencies in Sabah attended the function together with some of the 13 protem committee members.

The old Usno was disbanded by Tun Mustapha following the entry of Umno into Sabah with most of its members being absorbed into the party.

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