SUPP unveils declaration with 10 pledges by Eve Sonary Heng

KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) unveiled its declaration with pledges which the party would pursue without fear or favour.

SUPP president Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui told a press conference yesterday that they would do their level best not only as a party but as a member of the Barisan Nasional (BN) to implement the pledges.
“SUPP shall pursue this declaration without fear or favour, pressing the needs and interests of all people in Sarawak,” he said.

The first agenda listed in the declaration is to fight against corruption, whereby the party would urge the relevant authority or authorities to take swift and drastic actions against any offender, irrespective of his political affiliation or positions in the government or outside the government.
The party will promote anti-corruption campaigns to gather evidence on corruption practices and take necessary action to achieve a zero-corruption society.

The second declaration is that SUPP would strongly request the federal government to speed up the recognition of the Chinese Unified Examination Certificate (UEC); while the third is to start the intake of students into Shanghai-Jiao Tong University of China (Sarawak Campus) in 2014. Chin said the Shanghai Jiao Tong University is the second Chinese university branch campus approved by the Malaysian government.
The fourth pledge is that the party would be requesting the Ministry of Housing to construct at least 100,000 units of affordable houses over the next five years to be priced below RM100,000 to cater for the lower income groups.

The fifth is that SUPP would strongly request the state government to set aside 500,000 acres of state land for smallholders who do not own land for farming purposes.
The sixth agenda is to complete the survey of native customary rights (NCR) land throughout the state within the next five years.

The seventh declaration is that they would urge the federal government and state government to ensure that the intake of new non-Bumiputera recruits into all levels of federal and state civil services be based on population ratios in the state.
As for the eighth agenda, SUPP would urge the federal and state authorities to revise their criteria for providing annual financial assistances to needy cases as well as senior citizens above the age of 60 years and to set an annual minimum of RM1,500 for each case.

In the ninth agenda, the party declared to open tender for all government projects and to urge both the state and federal governments to adopt the practice of awarding all government projects (including those of government agencies and government linked companies) by public tender or other transparent process.

Last but not the least; the 10th declaration is to speed up the up-grading of Pan Borneo Highway in the next five years.
“In pursuance to our commitment to play an effective role within the Barisan Nasional, SUPP undertakes to make all efforts to realise the above agenda to rectify any government shortcoming without fear or favour,” said Chin.


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