No need for review of MA63 — Warisan

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah said the BN leadership must realise that as they are the government, it is their sacred duty and responsibility to uphold and protect the Federal Constitution and it is their obligation to implement whatever terms there are as provided for in the MA63 and the Federal Constitution.

“This they failed to do for more than five decades,” claimed Warisan.

The people of Sabah are tired of being told that such and such committees have been formed and have met, it said.

“The people are not interested whether you do it by consensus or otherwise. The people are interested in its implementation, not about how many committees and how many meetings are held,” the statement added.

All negotiations were done and completed in 1963 and the result of these negotiations is the MA63, it said, adding that Datuk Anifah Aman appears clueless about MA63 and is assuming that reviewing the agreement cannot be done unilaterally.

“Perhaps Anifah has overlooked Article 8 of MA63 which does not specifically mention that the governments of the Federation of Malaya, North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak and Singapore have to sit down and reach a consensus.

“Each has a right to unilaterally decide and take whatever ‘legislative, executive or other action as may be required to implement the assurances, undertakings and recommendations.’

“There is also no need for any review of the agreement.

“The only review is in the financial provision.

“However, the procedures for this review are given both in MA63 and the Federal Constitution.

“Nevertheless, the question arises as to the significance of a review when whatever was agreed in 1963 was never implemented in the first place," the statement said.