Sarawak deputy premier Awang Tengah Ali Hassan says that 5% of the national development budget, allocated to the state by previous federal governments, would never allow it to progress on par with states in the peninsula. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, December 1, 2022. – The Malaysian Insight pic, May 8, 2020.
THE 5% allocation of the national development budget to the state by previous federal governments is not only unjustifiable, it would also never allow Sarawak to be on par with states in the peninsula, the state’s Deputy Premier Awang Tengah Ali Hassan said. Hoping that the new national unity government would be more sympathetic and fairer to Sarawak and return its eroded rights as enshrined under the Federal Constitution, Awang Tengah said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim must also provide the state with more funds to close the development gap between the peninsula and Sarawak.
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