Pua: Sarawak and Sabah still left out
DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua has claimed that Sabah and Sarawak will remain marginalised because most projects under Budget 2011 are for peninsular Malaysia.
Of 39 prominent projects stipulated in the Budget, Pua said only eight were based in the two states and that the value of all projects in the peninsula amounted to a massive RM109.74bil.
“In contrast, Sabah and Sarawak’s amounted to a meagre RM9.55bil or just 8% of the total value,” he told reporters at Parliament lobby.
Pua said in the oil and gas sector, Sabah and Sarawak had contributed 44.5% in terms of crude oil and 64.1% of natural gas production in 2007.
“Based on the Ninth Malaysia Plan mid-term review, the two states remained the poorest in the country. It is hard to imagine that it was only in 1970 when Sabah was the second richest state in the country.”
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