I call on the Federal Government not to further delay the appointment of a credible Sarawakian as the new State Director of Customs Sarawak as well as let Sarawakians hold all the four Deputy Director posts. We demand that these posts be reserved for Sarawakians.
The post of the State Director of Customs Sarawak has been left vacant for more than 9 months since the retirement of the previous state director Herman Shah Abdullah.
Furthermore, at present, all the Deputy Directors of the Sarawak Customs Department posts are being held by officers from West Malaysia.
There are many qualified and credible Sarawakians who are fit for the state director post and the assistant directors posts. It is totally unacceptable for the government to leave the Director post unfilled for such a long period of time and not let a single Sarawakian to be the Deputy Directors of Customs in Sarawak. It is obvious that there is a flaw in the appointment of the top positions in our civil service.
“Or is there some systemic discrimination in the Public Service Department that side-lined Sarawakians to take up the high posts?”
All these years, there has been a gross disproportion in terms of high positions in the federal civil service being held by Sarawakians and the Public Service Department must seriously resolve this imbalance issue.
If Sarawak GPS Government that claimed to be the king-maker of the Federal Government is serious in defending and fighting for Sarawakians’ rights, I believe the post of the State Director of Customs Sarawak would not have left vacant up to nearly a year and that all the Deputy Director posts are being held by non-Sarawakians.
“Unfortunately, what we have is a situation whereby Sarawak GPS allows such injustice and disproportionality to be perpetrated for so long in the civil service.”
We need more Sarawakians to take up the high positions in the civil service so as to stop the interests and rights of Sarawak to being consistently and constantly disregarded.