Awang Adek Tak Tau Beza Mana Satu Roti Mana Satu 'Planta'

Berikut apa yang Sinar Harian Online laporkan mengenai kenyataan Timbalan Menteri Kewangan, Awang Adek Hussin mengenai isu royalti yang dituntut Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan;

PASIR MAS - Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan tidak boleh memaksa Kerajaan Pusat membayar royalti minyak kerana perkara itu tiada dalam peruntukan undang-undang.

Bagaimanapun, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak masih hendak memberi sumbangan kepada Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan dengan apa yang dipanggil sebagai wang ihsan.

Timbalan Menteri Kewangan, Datuk Dr Awang Adek Husin berkata, perbezaan royalti dengan wang ihsan ialah, wang royalti disalurkan melalui Kerajaan Negeri dan wang ihsan pula disalurkan melalui agensi Persekutuan.

“Jumlahnya sama tetapi saluran yang berbeza kerana sebab utama beri kepada agensi kerajaan bagi memastikan ketelusan. Sekiranya diberi kepada Kerajaan Negeri, mereka akan melakukan mengikut kehendak mereka serta tidak yakin dengan ketelusan yang dibuat oleh Kerajaan Negeri sama dengan ketelusan yang dibuat Kerajaan Pusat.

“Bagi orang Kelantan, apa yang mereka mahukan ialah sumbangan dan pihak yang layak menerima serta dibuat secara telus, tidak ada diskriminasi tanpa mengira parti politik contohnya dalam agihan bantuan banjir,” katanya. -Sinar Harian Online klik

Kata lagi Awang Adek;

“Dari segi undang-undang Kelantan dan Terengganu adalah sama kategori. Cuma perbezaan Kelantan dan Terengganu wujud kawasan medan minyak iaitu di Terengganu tidak ada pertindihan tuntutan tetapi di Kelantan ada tuntutan bertindih iaitu sebahagian kawasannya termasuk dalam Join Development Authority (JDA) dengan Thailand yang menghasilkan minyak gas.

“Hasilnya sudah dibahagikan antara Malaysia dan Thailand dan dari segi undang-undang. Sebenarnya tidak ada mana-mana undang-undang yang membolehkan Kelantan menuntut JDA ini dan ia sudah jelas dari segi undang-undang,” katanya.

Apa pula kata Ku Li bekas Menteri Kewangan dan beliau juga terlibat dalam perjanjian antara Petronas dan Kelantan sewaktu perjanjian royalti dirangka dalam blog beliau-razaleigh.com

The Government has now responded to Kelantan’s claim to a portion of the profits derived from petroleum resources extracted offshore by PETRONAS.

Its response violates the letter and the intent of a solemn agreement signed between each State Government and PETRONAS under the Petroleum Development Act.

That agreement is made out in language simple enough for a schoolboy to understand, in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.

The Constitutional rights of the people of Kelantan are denied. However this has implications far beyond Kelantan:

1) It negates an agreement signed between the Kelantan Government and PETRONAS. By implication, it negates identical agreements signed by PETRONAS with every other state and deprives the people of their constitutional rights.

2) The Government’s refusal to recognize a straightforward contractual obligation on PETRONAS’s part puts a question mark over the status of oil payments due to the other oil-producing states. The States’ rights to 5% of profit derived from the extraction of any petroleum resources is based on a quid pro quo according to which the States vested entirely and in perpetuity all their rights and claims to petroleum resources to PETRONAS. In return for this PETRONAS is legally bound to pay the states the 5% directly

3) If PETRONAS no longer recognises its legal obligation to pay the States what is due to them under the Petroleum Development Act, the States, and in particular Sabah and Sarawak, will now wonder if the corresponding Vesting Deed by which they vested all their rights in their petroleum resources to PETRONAS remains in force.

4) The Government’s response substitutes for PETRONAS’s legal obligations under the Petroleum Development Act an arbitrary “compassionate payment” from the Federal Government. This casts serious doubt on the Malaysian Government’s respect for the sanctity of contracts and the rule of law. Let’s not talk about spurring investment to take our economy to a higher level if we fail to understand the importance of abiding by contractual obligations.

I helped craft and negotiate the Petroleum Development Act. As Chairman of Petronas, I signed separate and identical agreements in respect of these payments with each of the Mentris Besar of the States. I must insist that PETRONAS is bound by them and that the Federal government should not interfere in their fulfillment.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

Member of Parliament, Gua Musang

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I will discuss my response to the proposed parliamentary caucus on this issue in my next posting.

I last wrote on the issue of Kelantan’s right to oil payments in my letter to the Mentri Besar of Kelantan in July this year. PETRONAS was formed to unite the country under a single and simple formula for sharing the bounty of our petroleum resources. Any unraveling of this formula could have serious consequences for our Federation.

Nampak sangat Awang Adek tak berapa cerdik bila bercakap hanya sekadar cakap habuan nak pelepas tapi nampak kebodohan walaupun jadi Timbalan Menteri Kewangan.Ini bukan soal bagi kepada Kerajaan negeri atau melalui agensi Kerajaan Persekutuan tapi yang ditulis dalam perjanjian Royalti Awang Adek oiii. 'Adik' Awang pun tau yang mana satu roti yang mana satu 'planta'.

Kalau Awang Adek tak dapat bezakan mana satu roti mana satu 'planta' lebih baik Awang letak jawatan jadi Timbalan Menteri Kewangan, tak guna Awang pegang jawatan tu buat malu orang Kelantan saja.Bab minyak ni bukan benda kecik boleh sembang dalam kedai kopi saja tapi libatkan wang berbilion ringgit yang wajib bayar seperti yang termaktub dalam perjanjian.