KOTA KINABALU, Aug 25 Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor has set in motion plans to completely take over Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) gradually with the setting up.
No greater love than “Love Sabah” is surely and steadily growing. If only this embryonic love for our Sabah can mature more, especially among politicians, then our future will be in good hands. Hajiji’s “Sabah First” or “Sabahans First Policy” has begun to produce positive impacts. Here are some reasons and examples for this rising tide of “Love Sabah”:
[a] Hajiji has succeeded to collect sales tax on petroleum products. This has been a thorny issue for a long time. Sarawak has been collecting this sale tax for many years but Petronas has refused Sabah.
Their reason is that sales tax is only collectable at point of sales. In the first place, Petronas has simply siphoned our oil and gas to other states, namely Sarawak, Malacca and Johore and adding insult to injury, the receiving States have been collecting sales tax on our oil and gas! What justice for Sabah? It is to Hajiji’s credit that he has since, on assumin
On 23rd May 2022, the Daily Express banner-headlined “250,000 jobless youths seen” by 2024. As stated in this article, Sabah’s unemployment is about three times higher than national average. This is very serious. The reality is even more frightening when added to this context
[a] The unemployed are Sabahan youths, their future is Sabah’s destiny, potentially the most productive. Ignominious and very bad for the economy.
[b] Can be very damaging psychologically and socially for them to start life being unemployed.
[c] This 250,000 jobless youth will [if not already] create very serious long term social and economic consequences for Sabah.
[d] To add to this number are Sabahans who have been partially or permanently unemployed and under employed [especially Sabahans in the farming and coastal fishing communities].
https://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/192887/250-000-sabah-jobless-youths-seen/
Sabah’s unemployment is consequ
Published on: Thursday, July 29, 2021
By: Bernama
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Kota Kinabalu: “Pancing karan”, a local term for electricity theft by making illegal connections, is not something “unusual” in Sabah, especially among squatter residents, who are usually illegal immigrants.
Bernama, which has been following the authorities in a two-day operation to crack down on this activity in Lorong Keleto, Kampung Bawang, and Kampung Suang Parai, here, saw how cables are illegally connected to the feeder boxes by the culprits to steal electricity to their homes (pic).
Wires and cables dangling in bunches from electric poles and also lying on the ground and across rivers are a common sight. They pose a threat to the safety of those living in the area.