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| How Len Talif Salleh -”Objective” Civil Servant/BN Politician/Timber Company Boss – ... Posted: 22 May 2011 01:24 AM PDT Salleh posed as an 'objective' civil servant, the Director of Forests, charged with managing the state's forests in a disinterested manner, unswayed by politics. It was not mentioned, however, that at the same time Len Talif Salleh was already running as a BN candidate in the forthcoming election! In any non-corrupted country a civil servant who was planning to move from being a paid public servant to run for political office would, of course, step down from his post beforehand. However, not only did Len Talif Salleh fail to do that, but unbelievably, according to the Department's own website, the man is still occupying this crucial public job as Director of Forests weeks after the election when he was returned as a BN YB!  Len Talif Salleh has kept his position as Head of the Forests Department even though he has gone into politics and is arguably therefore now his own boss! The conclusion must be that Taib has run so short of yes men that he is placing the same handful of loyalists across all the key public positions, regardless of the vital division between the Civil Service and politics. There can be few men left in Sarawak who would seriously claim that 70% of the jungle remains intact! Salleh was handing timber licences to himself ! But this is not the only conflict of interest to feature in Salleh's career. Our investigations reveal how he has concurrently occupied a staggering number of top posts in forestry, giving him total control over timber management – much in the same way that his own boss Taib has acquired all the main positions of State. In 2008 he was simultaneously Deputy Permanent Secretary Ministry of Planning and Resources Management; Director of Forests; Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Sarawak Forestry Corporation and the General Manager of the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (STIDC). Is it fair to assume, therefore, that Salleh was little more than Taib's 'Yes Man' in forestry – we think yes!
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