Kota Kinabalu: Putatan MP Datuk Shahelmey Yahya (pic) reiterated calls to have excess development funds to be put directly into a Sabah Special Trust Fund.
He said annual finance reports show that the allocations and budgets for Sabah are not used up most of the time.“And instead of channelling the unused funds, it was better to keep them in the special trust fund so that the state can utilise the money when needed urgently.”
He said the Budget announced the following year can include new projects instead of old projects that have yet to be implemented the previous year.He said some challenges faced in carrying out the development projects in the year it was announced and planned include financial constraints faced by contractors, land and site problems, ability of the implementing agent, disasters, unforeseen circumstances, utility transfers and poor project planning.
“I am glad to note that a RM15.7bil allocation has been set aside,” Shahelmey said, adding that when completed, it would be a game changer. “I would like to take this opportunity to convey a message from the Association of Consulting Engineers Sabah, to have their scale of fees revised,” he said, adding the last time the fees were revised was in 2003.
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