Where is BORNEONISATION?

SAPP ‘no’ to ‘outsider’ as INTAN Sabah chief

KOTA KINABALU: It has come to the knowledge Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) that the Federal Government is planning to appoint yet another non-Sabahan or even Sarawakian to head INTAN in Sabah.

"INTAN is an important department in-charge of training our civil servants. The act of the Federal leaders under Umno to continue trampling on the 20 Points agreement to Borneonise all Federal Departments in Sabah could not be tolerated by Sabahans," said SAPP Supreme Council member Peter Marajin.


"We understand that the in-coming Sabah INTAN director is Mohd Nawardi Saad, who hails from Peninsular Malaysia currently attached to INTAN in Sungai Petani, Kedah.

"Isn't there a qualified Sabahan to head and staff Federal agencies here, after 47 years of togetherness under the Federation of Malaysia?.

"We call upon Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman, PBS president Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan and UPKO president Tan Sri Bernard Giluk Dompok to speak up and stop this trampling on our very condition to join hands with Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore in 1963 to form the Federation," he said in a statement issued yesterday.

Sabah and Sarawak want not only the heads of federal agencies in East Malaysia to be from their own, but also virtually all staff must be locals, he added.

"On this subject, I would ask why BN component parties from Sabah especially PBS, UPKO and PBRS are silent or non-effective on the issue of more and more from peninsular rather than locals being recruited to staff all Federal Departments in Sabah and Sarawak,” he said. This is very visible in the police, army, education, health, and the various departments as well as units under scores of Federal ministries that are being extended to Sabah now, he said.

"What will happen to our local graduates and school-leavers? They should be the ones recruited to staff all these agencies, not outsiders from peninsula," he said.

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