Look after your own party, Musa tells DAP
KOTA KINABALU, Jan 7 (The Borneo Post)
-- Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman has reminded the
DAP to “look after your own party” rather than meddling
into the affairs of others.The chief minister made the stinging
reminder amid calls by the opposition party asking Parti
Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan
to give up his position as an MP.
Musa said that for one, the issue was not a matter for
the DAP to decide.
For another, he said, Pairin had been able to discharge
his duties well.
Last week, Sabah DAP vice-chairman Edward Ewol Mujie and
the party’s publicity secretary Dr Edwin Bosi asked Pairin,
70, to relinquish his post as an MP, saying Pairin was preoccupied
with too many responsibilities — as an assemblyman, a Deputy
Chief Minister and an Infrastructure Development Minister.
Musa said that there was nothing strange in a leader holding
two seats.
“The DAP is questioning this but even Penang Chief Minister
(Lim Guan Eng) is also an assemblyman as well as an MP.
“So my advice to the DAP is, look after your own party,”
he told reporters after chairing the weekly cabinet meeting
yesterday.
On the meeting, Musa said he had asked the ministers to
go down to the grassroots and monitor projects under their
respective ministries so that they would be able to obtain
first-hand information on their progress.
He also said the state government would hold a dialogue
with Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri
Nor Mohamed Yakcop on Jan 16 pertaining to development projects
in Sabah under the 10th Malaysia Plan.
“For Sabah, we always stress on the importance of rural
infrastructure and that is why we always ask for more allocation
for this purpose,” he said.
Asked on the latest development in the coal-fired power
plant project in Sabah, Musa said, the state government
was still waiting for the project’s environmental impact
assessment report.
“As for the protest (against the coal-fired plant), it
has been ongoing for sometime,” he said.
