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'17 out of Sabah's 20-point agreement incorporated into Federal Constitution'

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 5, 2014:

The 20-point agreement drawn up by Sabah leaders during the negotiations prior to the formation of Malaysia in 1963 is still relevant, Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan said.

The Sabahan lawmaker said that this was because 17 out of the 20 points were taken into consideration and incorporated into what later became the Federal Constitution.

Abdul Rahman said the other three points, including the official religion for Sabah, were not finalised then as Sabah leaders had different opinions on the need for the state to have an official religion.

The Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister, however, said that in 1973, when Tun Datu Mustapha Datu Harun was the Chief Minister of Sabah, the motion to make Islam the official religion of the state was passed unanimously by the State Legislative Assembly.

“In 1973, Tun Datu Mustapha tabled the motion to make Islam the official religion of the state at the State Assembly sitting and it was debated by Muslim, Christian and Chinese assemblymen before being passed unanimously.”

He said this at the public forum and dialogue titled “Sabah: Inside or Outside Malaysia” here yesterday.

The other panellist at the forum was Penampang Member of Parliament Darrel Leiking.

On Borneonisation, the minister refuted the allegation that the posts of heads of federal departments, agencies and statutory bodies in Sabah were monopolised by officers from the peninsula.

He said based on statistics, a majority of the posts were being held by Sabahans.

However, Abdul Rahman said he disagreed if Borneonisation meant that the posts must be held only by Sabahans because that would contravene the concept of Malaysia as a federal country.

Hence, he said some of the federal departments and agencies should be led by officers from other states, based on the concept of give-and-take.

On the government’s efforts to overcome poverty in Sabah, he said it was a continuous effort and to date, the poverty rate had been reduced to 8% from over 60% in the 1950s and 1960s.

He said the people in Sabah could not deny the government’s success in reducing the poverty rate because even a developed country like the United States had a poverty rate of over 10%.