Hajiji has inherited this economic status quo. Sabah has been trapped in an economic rout [a black hole] for more than 30years. The golden era that Tan Sri has given Sabah evaporated soon after he left office. Years later, Tan Sri Musa was able to resurrect the economy to 8pc growth in 2017. Unfortunately, he left office in 2018
Brief history of Sabah’s energy woes. Sabah owned SESB which, to our shame, was badly managed. Power failures, brown outs and shutdowns were a daily affair, Sandakan and Tawau suffered worst. Power theft was widespread too. These have created chaos and stunted Sabah’s economic development. Businesses, especially SMEs, suffered massively. Impossible for industries. Apart from mismanagement, SESB suffered from price increases in diesel which was then its main fuel by Petronas. To stamp the financial bleedings, Sabah sold SESB to TNB. Blame who? Sabahan political leaders for having allowed bad management and failure to secure an equitable supply of diesel at an affordable price from Petronas. After all, the petroleum was pumped from our territory. It is ours in the first place. Such was the sorry tales of Sabah’s weak economic leadership.
Admittedly, SESB under TNB has improved. However, its performance has not been entirely satisfactory, its failure to produce suffic
ALL Sabah political leaders must join in the fight for equitable economic partnership post-MA63. Parliament has passed MA63 on 14th December 2021. Since then, Hajiji has successfully fought for Sabah
[a] a seat in the main board of Petronas which is a first ever.
[b] Sabah Gas Master Plan.
[c] Commercial Collaborative Agreement.
[d] LNG plant in SOGIT.
[e] Sales Tax on petroleum products. And quite few more in other sectors. These are significant milestones as Sabah has tried, without success for more than 3o years to secure equity from Petronas on our oil/gas
I AM greatly appreciative that the KKIA management has invited SEAC and SEAC tourism committee to a meeting on 4th August 2022. The meeting has been fruitful and frank. From the KKIA management were Senior Manager, Tuan Haji Sunif Naiman, incoming senior manager/Operation Jefry Ramli, Rehan Shafiq (Commercial) and Jekeria Semat (Engineering)
The followings issues were brought up and discussed in depth during the meeting