KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is one step forward, two steps backwards in its progress towards independence, claimed Kudat Warisan Vice Chief Fauziah Mohd Fuad Stephens.
To this end, Fauziah, the daughter of Sabah’s first Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens, urged Sabahans to unite and take control of their own politics.
“As my late father said, Self-Government is a stepping stone, I think it's time to step up and complete the process,” she said in a statement after visiting the Malaysia Day Memorial, in Kudat, on Friday.
She further said Sabah had gone through a lot being in Malaysia and “having our history written and rewritten”.
“We have lost our ‘Negara’ title in 1976, been part of the states in Federation of Malaya as state number 12, and been placed under emergency law for more than four decades, losing control over our own oil and resources.”
Sabah even lost its free political institution, she said.
“Today (Friday) is Malaysia Day but we are the only ones singing our lost ones. No song of victory is coming towards us yet.
“Malaysia Day has always been a sad remembrance in our family,” she said.
