Will PH Sabah Now Support SLS?

The decision by the Federal Attorney-General to continue challenging the judicial review filed by Sabah Law Society (SLS) at the Federal Court on July 16, 2024 and made known to public only on July 24 is regretable.

Yusri Bin Pungut
Yusri Bin Pungut

Warisan was the first party that openly declared its support to SLS and the GRS-led State Government only did so after its former counsel made several blunders during the hearing at Court of Appeal on May 16, 2024.

On May 25, 2024 PH Sabah supported the State Government’s decision to drop the challenge against SLS and further stated that it will ensure the matter be resolved through the Implementation Action Council and Technical Committee (MA63 Committees) headed by the Prime Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister respectively.

Interestingly, when PH Sabah dropped their Originating Summons against both the Federal and State Governments on September 19, 2023, medias reported it that their reason for doing so was the formation of a Malaysia Agreement 1963 Implementation Action Council (MTPMA63) chaired by the prime minister and a technical committee for MTPM63 (Technical Committee) chaired by the deputy prime minister II.

In short, PH Sabah refered MTPMA63 to justify their actions in both instances.

However, a year had gone by and except for the non-compliance of its July 18 deadline and subsequent ball passings, nothing significant had been achieved by MTPMA63 with regards to the settlement of 2/5 (40%) entitlement.

With this fresh challenge being filed in by the Federal AGC at the Federal Court, will PH Sabah now collectively and openly support SLS or continue to say that MTPMA63 is the right platform for the settlement of 2/5 (40%) even after a year long delay with continuos ball passings?

If PH Sabah support SLS, then surely it will persuade the Prime Minister to instruct the Federal AGC to retract the fresh challenge filed at Federal Court.

And if PH Sabah is unable to assert or free itself from the political clutches by its Masters, then it should support the call by Warisan to establish the Permanent Parliamentary Special Select Committee (PSC) for MA63 (including the settlement of the long awaited 2/5 (40%) entitlement).

Yusri Bin Pungut
Information Chief, Warisan Sipitang Division
Advocate & Solicitor in Sabah
25 July 2024

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