WORK HARDER OR RESIGN, NGO PRESIDENT TELLS MAXIMUS

Cleftus (left) tells Maximus to "work harder, show results, or resign"

15 April 2021

KOTA KINABALU: Minister of Sabah and Sarawak Affairs Datuk Maximus Ongkili has been urged to retire if he is not able to work harder in generating confidence for the Perikatan Nasional (PN) Government.

Regarding the government as "fragile", the President of Sabah Dayak Tribe Cultural Association Cleftus Spine Mojingol said Ongkili should do whatever he could while he is in power to resolve the Borneo Miseries.

"Sabah and Sarawak trail in all spectres of developments within Malaysia, even though we are Malaysia's richest states in term of natural resources especially the oil and gas reserves.

"How long must we wait ... We want to see more tangible results than just committees," he said in a statement today.

Cleftus commented on the choice of words by Ongkili should be put in the correct perspective.

Instead of "handing over the administration of Sipadan and Ligitan islands to Sabah", he said it should have been "giving back over the administration of Sipadan and Ligitan Islands to Sabah".

"And then, what had happened to all the recommendations of the various committees formed after the RCI on the issuance of dubious documents to illegal immigrants? Why are the problems still unresolved? Why are they still here? Why are the governments building apartments for these immigrants but not for the bona fide natives?

"What about Labuan? Even the strongest supporter for Labuan to federalise, Harris Salleh, recently lamented the failure of the act.

"To those Sabah political parties who always used Labuan being federalised as its election campaign batteries, why are you silent now?"