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Sarawak will go bankrupt’ statement mere assumption, says Wan Azizah

KUCHING: Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail refused to comment on the recent statement made by Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng that Sarawak will go bankrupt in three years.

Obviously thinking the deputy prime minister was surely prepared for questions regarding the statement, reporters took the earliest opportunity to ask her if she had any advice for the federal minister.

Dr Wan Azizah’s discomfiture was obvious: “I do not know. I have to see first.”

Some reporters were overheard whispering among themselves it was not possible that the deputy prime minister did not know of the hurtful and unwelcome statement as far as Sarawakians are concerned.

Surely, she must have been briefed, or rather forewarned, by her aides that at the earliest opportunity the local press community would surely ask her for her opinion on the controversy.

More attempts were made to get her to comment, and at last she blurted out: “You ask him lah… It is just an assumption.”

That was enough fodder to get the press folk to put two and two together, so to speak.

“You ask him lah” – The deputy prime minister is not responsible for Lim’s statement, and she doesn’t want to know.

“It is just an assumption” – If that is what it is the statement is not only without basis but an irresponsible one.

On June 21, Lim, during a DAP fund raising dinner, said Sarawak will go bankrupt in three years’ time if Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) continues to rule the state.

For that the DAP secretary general has received a lot of flak from several state leaders, politicians and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), not a few of whom had called for his resignation as Finance Minister.

There were also calls for him to be prohibited from entering the state “until and unless he apologises”.

Lim has so far kept his mouth shut.

Dr Wan Azizah was in Kuching for a Raya gathering.

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