PBS to set up panels on reinstating Sabah’s rights

KUNDASANG: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) will set up two high-level committees on Borneonisation and devolution of powers to reinstate what rightfully belongs to Sabah and the people of Sabah.
Disclosing this today, PBS acting president Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili said the two issues had been perennial topics of discussion and had been used by certain quarters to confuse the people.
“We need to defend what is still there and take back what have been eroded,” he told nearly 200 participants of a two-day PBS Leadership Seminar at Kem Bina Negara which ended here today.
He was presenting a paper titled “Understanding the Malaysia Agreement 1963”.
The energy, green technology and water minister said he would be heading the main committee on devolution of powers while PBS senior vice-president Datuk Radin Malleh would chair the High-Level Committee on Borneonisation.
Ongkili said the two committees would be supported by technical teams comprising senior politicians, lawyers in the party who are experts in various fields as well as former senior civil servants who will be tasked to study and analyse relevant issues and propose solutions that would be presented to the party leadership and subsequently to the state and federal governments.
Ongkili, who was recently tasked to carry out the duties as party president, added: “The committee will study what was promised in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 pertaining to the two perennial issues and recommend remedial action for restoration since they have not been honoured satisfactorily.” — Bernama