Two opposition assemblymen challenged former Chief Ministers Tan Sri Harris Salleh and Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan to come forward and clarify why they made the decision to sign the Petronas Agreement, which is part of the Petroleum Development Act (PDA) 1974.
The agreement entitled the oil production states to just 5pc royalty from Petronas when production companies were giving 12pc previously to the Sabah and Sarawak State Governments
Former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Mohd Salleh said the claim by Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan that “Project IC” was meant to increase a certain ethnic group in Sabah through issuance of the document to illegal immigrants must be true, since it came directly from the horse’s mouth
Two Sabah Pakatan Harapan (PH) assemblymen have challenged former Chief Ministers Tan Sri Harris Salleh and Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan to come forward and make a clarification about the Petronas Development Act
DAP's Lim Kit Siang today demanded former Sabah leader Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan explain publicly what he did for four years as the chairman of the Working Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) investigating the state's longstanding problem with undocumented immigrants who were granted citizenship in return for votes