WHEN Jim Morrison sang “Come on baby light my fire” I heard it. The SESB didn’t. when Debbie Boone sang “you light up my life” I heard it and the SESB didn’t.
But when the SESB cash registers started to ring, everyone in SESB heard it. I wished I hadn’t.
Through time immemorial SESB has been ringing up the bills, promptly, efficiently and devastatingly. Yes, devastatingly because in Sabah we pay higher electricity rates and need to keep replacing or repairing our electrical appliance due to the everyday blackouts.
Datuk Seri Samy Vellu, if I remember correctly had openly stated that in Sabah we pay higher rates due to the terrain, capacity requirements and maintenance cost. He said this when he was Minister of Works and Utilities.
Today we hear the same tune. The singers may have changed buy not eh song. Almost every week there are complaints about the electricity cuts and shortages. Mind you, the same sentiments were expressed in the 80s when Halik Zaman was the Chairman of SESB. Some 30 years later we are still faced with this perennial problem.
Opposition parties are urging consumers to sue the SESB and who can blame them? It is not the Management of SESB who has to face the Rakyat. It is the elected representatives and aspiring politicians that have to do so on a daily basis and more often than not, these politicians become nothing more than a punching bag. For that reason, I would never want to be a politician. More so in Sandakan.
In the first place, I already look like a punching bag. Secondly, I would know from the bottom of my heart that the best I could do, is NOTHING. That’s the truth. Only the SESB and the Federal Government can resolve this problem, one way or the other.
No matter what argument are put forward, no matter what problems are encountered, no matter what politicians say and no matter what promises are made, they don’t mean a thing to me.
I am fed up of reaching out for sand paper instead of toilet paper in the dark.
C.P. Kui
Publised on 31st Aug 2009 Daily Express Forum .
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