Dr Kanul Gindol and Ewon Benedict
UPKO president Datuk Ewon Benedict to quit as a Federal Minister if the AG files appeal Kota Kinabalu High Court decision in favour of Sabah the 40 per cent revenue entitlement.
Portal talantang.com get political activist Dr Kanul Gindol to comment on the issue.
Dr Kanul, like Ewon is also a community leader from Kota Belud, has these to say: –
Well, Ewon has said it.
Obviously Ewon will have to resign from his ministerial post as soon as the Federal AG files an appeal on the said case in the Court of Appeal, if he has credibility, and i want to think that he has.
As Ewon himself believed it was a matter of principle, and so the principled thing to do if the AG files to appeal the High Court ruling that favoured Sabah is just file your resignation immediately wihtin 24 hours of the filing.
You cannot delay, resign immediately.
In my view, a dilly-dallying will erase away whatever credibility remnant in the minister.
But honestly in my thinking, after Ewon said what he said, PM Anwar will get the AG not to appeal the ruling.
And, Ewon will get to keep his ministerial post so that he would continue serving in Anwar’s Federal Cabinet, afterall Ewon is the current Pakatan Harapan Sabah Chairman too.
However in my opinion, if the AG does appeal, Anwar can just absolve himself and say let the appeal court decide.
Anwar may ask Ewon to rethink.
But Ewon cannot escape and delay his resignation from the cabinet.
It is the unprincipled thing to do.
Remember Ewon and 10 other PH leaders, who filed a suit in 2022, were still being condemned for withdrawing a suit on the same matter earlier in September 2024.
SLS filed a separate judicial review on the same matter and had the Kota Kinabalu High Court ruled that the FG has unlawfully failed to carry out a review and failed to pay Sabah its constitutional right for decades.
Editor: Besides political observer or analyst, Dr Kanul chairman of an NGO Gindol Initiative for Civil Society Borneo, and vice president of another NGO Change Advocate Movement Sabah (CAMOS
