James Masing still non-committal to Larry Sng position in PRS

James Jemut Masing, the president of Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) yesterday advised Larry Sng and his followers to avoid mocking the decision made by the Registrar of Societies (ROS).

Masing at yesterday’s press conference said there could only be one president in a political organisation and advised Sng’s followers to therefore respect the decision of ROS.

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From theBorneoPost

Sng told to respect ROS decision
By Samuel Aubery

KUCHING: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Dato Sri Dr James Jemut Masing yesterday advised Larry Sng and his followers to avoid mocking the decision made by the Registrar of Societies (ROS).

“My advice to Larry Sng is to respect the decision of ROS, and I hope that he would advise his followers to do likewise and avoid making mockery of that decision,” said Masing at a press conference after the party’s supreme council meeting at its Jalan Pending headquarters here.

ROS Datuk Md Alias Kalil, in a letter issued on April 1, decided not to deregister PRS after he agreed with reasons or excuses put forward by Masing on the sacking of six PRS principal office bearers on May 25, 2006.

The letter was in response to the reply made by Masing to a showcause letter on Sept 7, 2006. Alias also confirmed that Masing is the president of PRS.

This, however, did not go down well with the Sng’s followers who until today still insist that Sng, the Pelagus assemblyman, is the legitimate president.

Masing at yesterday’s press conference said there could only be one president in a political organisation and advised Sng’s followers to therefore respect the decision of ROS.

It was also pointed out to Masing that reports on Internet blogs spoke of “homecoming” of divisions aligned to Sng, which apparently did not happen as none of those in the Sng camp attended yesterday’s meeting.

Masing, when asked by a reporter to comment on this, said the party had not received any application from members of Sng’s group to rejoin the party.

“As far as we are concerned, they (those aligned to him who were sacked during the party’s triennial general assembly in Sibu in Dec 2, 2006) remain sacked,” he said.

“In any political organisation, there must only be one president, cannot be two or three. The decision has been made by ROS and my advice to Larry Sng is to respect that decision and to tell his followers, whoever they are now, to do likewise,” he said.

Masing however was non-committal in his answers regarding Sng’s position in the party. He kept telling reporters to pose that question to Sng instead.

On another development, Masing also announced that PRS had formed a committee headed by lawyer Wendall Crocker to look at land matters which the party expected to be a major issue in the coming state election.

“PRS takes it upon itself that land issue will be one of the biggest issues that we will have to face come next election in Sarawak. Therefore, we have formed a very high powered committee to look at various land issues and identify the related weaknesses,” he said.

He pointed out that PRS was of the belief that land rights and land issues were synonymous with eradication of poverty.

“You settle the land rights and land issues, then our move to eradicate poverty in the rural areas will be on the right path.

“Our boys are looking into that, we have appointed committee members headed by lawyer Wendall Crocker. Hopefully, we have a preliminary submission by this December,” he said.

He added that the committee would also be looking at the legislative aspects of the land issues to find out “if there is any legislation that needs to be added in or reviewed” after which PRS would make its recommendation.

“PRS takes land matters seriously because this is about individual rights to property,” stressed Masing.