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Oleh Dzulkarnain Taib By Dzulkarnain Taib

SANDAKAN Sabah Barisan Nasional leaders with luxurious life and property so that busy collecting welfare and rights of the people and cause people ignore rich country with natural resources are poor and miserable life. Candidate Elections People's Alliance for Small Parliament Batu Sapi, Ansari Abdullah said the BN leaders busy pursuing wealth they have forgotten the basic responsibility of the lives of the poor and the needy. Speaking to residents of Souvenir, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Sandakan yesterday, Ansari added that the failure of so-called leaders believe in the principle of 'people first' cause of other people's housing problems are not solved, water supply and electricity supply, roads with holes and not paved, and no garbage collection service. "This is a major factor why the voters in Batu Sapi Chinese reject BN lead late Edmund Chong lost in all the Chinese majority. They moved to Batu Batu 4 and 7 because their safety is not guaranteed due to the problem of illegal immigrants is not unstoppable again. Finally, the economic Leila Bandar Tanah Merah and where previously many Chinese people have become increasingly empty and 'slum'. "Unfortunately, Edmund Chong who won when it is in Malay Malay voters who live down-the average income of RM200 to RM300 per month to live in slum areas are dirty and poorly managed. "If the Chinese voters who dominate the business in Batu Sapi BN is less why poor Malay voters who still want to continue to support the BN who had betrayed them," said Ansari. Suara Keadilan, which followed the group to talk Ansari group in the village finds the squatter area was very dirty with rubbish all over the place and smell the meloyakan. In fact, the card bridge (catwalk) that is used by villagers to berjala in between hundreds of dilapidated wooden houses and badly patched with zinc has been perforated and endangering pedestrians. "Pakatan Rakyat Batu Sapi hopes voters take the attitude of the people in Sibu who took the decision to reject BN thus ending the party's history. "God has given to the people of Batu Sapi opportunity to see whether they want to make changes or not, because God does not change a people until the people themselves to change their fate. "The first win parliamentary seats for the Parti Keadilan Rakyat Borneo would mark the collapse of Putrajaya in the general election later. Come let us together make the changes in rock Beef and God willing the victory in our hands," said Ansari inspired supporters. Before that time arrived in the village of new gas, another squatter, a sudden power failure had caused Ansari explains berlampukan candles. "This is the consequence to vote BN. In the West, if without electricity for two minutes only noisy, but a peninsula in Sabah, especially in the Batu Sapi people just surrender to fate on this day no electricity, no area, then it is, two days there, and so on are valid for many years. Negeri rich, full BN leaders and citizens continue to faces of poverty, "she said again. 29/10/10