SDC cannot solve poverty: Keadilan

from the Daily Express

Kota Kinabalu: Opposition Keadilan claimed the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) would not be able to resolve poverty issues in Sabah as well as reduce the price of goods.

Its Inanam candidate, Daniel John Jambun, said he is willing to debate the issue with the BN at any time and place.

"The SDC never mentioned about providing opportunities to the people or how it would be able to address poverty and the illegal immigrant issues in Sabah.

"So, how could the government say that it is good for the people?," he said during a Keadilan gathering at Kampung Bantayan, Inanam, Thursday night.

The BN, he claimed, is now going into the villages distributing zinc sheets and plastic water tanks to the people to entice them to vote for BN candidates in the elections on March 8.

However, he believed that 95 per cent of the voters in the Inanam state constituency is fully behind Keadilan.

Daniel said once Keadilan forms the next government, among the first things they would do is to improve the delivery system. He assured that whatever the party does, they would be very transparent.

He said if the reports lodged by Keadilan on corruption are false, "then why is it that until now none of those who lodged the reports has been arrested?"

He also said if the BN is really honest, then the promises it vowed to fulfil within 100 days after the previous elections should have already been fulfilled. "But now, it has been more than 1,000 days and still they have not been able to fulfil all of them," he said.

Daniel, 51, urged the voters to vote for Keadilan if they want changes in their lives. A Political Secretary during the Berjaya government period, he explained that he is not the arrogant person some people make him out to be. "I cannot turn my neck very much because it feels tight due to the tension," he said.

However, he assured the people that his heart is for the people who he claimed have largely been oppressed.

He rated his chances as quite good against BN incumbent Johnny Goh (PBS) and other challengers, Jeffrey Kumin @ John (DAP) and Clarence Chin @ Olay (Independent).