From Free Malaysia Today – Not a single decent road in oil-rich Sabah


Those of you in the intersection region of the Petronas – tycoon – Sabahian Venn diagram, you might want to pay attention. Dateline 2011-06-15:

Sabah is clearly not in the nation-building plans of the Barisan Nasional government in the last 47 years. For todate, “not a single decent trunk road or highway” has been built for the state.

A former Sabah minister, Kong Hong Ming, said the federal government had failed to build a modern road network in the state almost half a century since the formation of Malaysia.

He said Sabahans were still begging for infrastructural development despite regularly giving away 95% of the state’s oil and gas resources to the federal government.

Kong, now a PKR leader, has accused the Umno-led BN federal government of taxing Sabahans and treating Sabah as a backwater.

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2 Responses to From Free Malaysia Today – Not a single decent road in oil-rich Sabah

  1. Mohd Shaza Shaharom says:
    July 7, 2011 at 8:57 am

    another political issue. I wonder when he was a minister during his time with BN, did he ever point this out to the then PM?

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