A QUESTION was raised by the DAP Ipoh Timor MP, Lim Kit
Siang in Parliament recently concerning how many federal departments are headed
by Sabahan and non-Sabahan.
He also asked for the figure
and list of The minister in the Prime Minister Department answered that out of
the 133 federal department in Sabah, there is 61 (45.9%) Sabahan heading the
department, and 72 (54.1%) from people outside of Sabah.
Until 14th of September, 2012, Sabahan officers in First /
special Grade and above, working in the federal civil service are 19. There is
one each in the Grades under First Grade-Scale 1, First Grade-Scale 2, and First
Grade A. There are 3 officers under First Grade B, 13 under First Grade and
Special Grade C.
From the small number of Sabahan heading the top federal
departments, which should be much larger than what it is, we can see that there
is no priority and importance given to the Sabahan to head an important role in
the Federal departments all this while, said the KKMP Hiew King Cheu. Is this
because that the Sabahan are less capable and qualified?
We
want more federal positions in Sabah and in other places in Malaysia, and this
is recognition that Sabahan are a large part of the population where they
equally have the right to share the federal top grade jobs in Malaysia.
If
we proportionate the top federal positions to our 3.4 million population with
the national population of 27 million, we should have at least 12% share. The
figure we have now is far too few.
It
is a must to allocate a bigger share on the top positions Sabahan who are
holding high federal position in the country.
in
the federal civil service to the Sabahan. The same should apply to the uniform
groups like the military and police.
Sabahan has been deprived of this for a long time, we are not third class
citizens and this must be corrected immediately
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