If Pakatan Harapan wins the 15GE, I will set up a special office to promote the restoration of the rights of Sabah and Sarawak in accordance with Malaysia Agreement 1963

If Pakatan Harapan wins the 15th General Election and Anwar Ibrahm becomes the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia , I will set up a special office to promote the restoration of the rights of Sabah and Sarawak in accordance with Malaysia Agreement 1963.

It is a great disgrace to Sabah and Malaysia that Sabah, with so many resources, is one of the poorest areas in Malaysia.

Poverty in Sabah is in double-digit figure.

Every Sabahan must ask why Sabah, one of the territories endowed with the richest natural resources like oil, gas, timber and fertile soil, should end up as the poorest territory in the country six decades after the formation of Malaysia!

If there is no corruption and abuses of power, and good governance is the order of the day in the last six decades, Sabah’s rich resources should be reflected in the poverty rate, and as Sabah is one of the richest states in the country, the poverty rate in Sabah should be below the national poverty rate.

Before Malaysia was formed in 1963, delegation from delegation of representatives from Sabah and Sarawak visited Peninsular Malaysia to see the progress and infrastructural development in Peninsular Malaysia..

Sabahans and Sarawakians were promised before Malaysia was formed in 1963 that if Sabah and Sarawak joined in the formation of Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak will enjoy the progress and infrastructure development in Malaya.

Almost six decades have passed, but Sabahans and Sarawakians are still as poor as ever, and even the three pledges in Keningau Batu Sumpah to uphold the three pledges of “Ugama Bebas Dalam Sabah”, “Tanah Tanah dalam Sabah di kuasai oleh Kerajaan Sabah” and “Adat Istiadat anak rayat Sabah dihormatkan dan dipelihara oleh Kerajaan” had been neglected.

Even the much-talked-about Pan-Borneo Highway has not been completed 60 years after the formation of Malaysia

Only in one thing Sabah is the match with Federal Government — corruption is as rampant in ‘Sabah as in Kuala Lumpur. This is a curse which must be eradicated.

One of the first tasks of my special office for the restoration of rights of Sabah in accordance with Malaysia Agreement 1963 will be on the Keningau Batu Sumpah — the extent the three pledges had been honoured n the past 60 years.