Sabah racing to complete 9MP projects
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah ministers and senior civil servants have been directed to deal directly with the Federal Government as the state rushes against time to complete projects under the 9th Malaysia Plan.
Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman said he had asked the ministers and senior civil servants to contact their counterparts in Kuala Lumpur to iron out any problem causing delays in the implementation of the projects.
He said direct contact was necessary in order to speed up the development efforts with the 9MP ending in 16 months.
To date, more than RM11bil of the nearly RM20bil allocated to Sabah has been utilised with 1,380 projects – nearly 39% of the total – completed, said Musa after chairing the State Action Council meeting here yesterday.
However, he said projects under the privately funded initiatives (PFIs) were slow to take off, with only 16.17% or RM275mil of the RM1.7bil set aside for Sabah having been used up so far.
“The message to the ministers and our civil servants is that we must accelerate these planned development schemes. The people are counting on them and any problem must be sorted out as quickly as possible,” Musa added.
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