KUCHING: Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah is skeptical of the Shared Prosperity Vision policy.
According to him, Sarawak has been sharing its Oil & Gas wealth with all other states in Malaysia, including the federal government.
“All these years, Sarawak has been given a lopsided share of its own wealth, a pittance five per cent share of its natural oil and gas resources while 95 per cent are for Petronas, the federal government and for the States development.
“Hence, if that is not Shared Prosperity, I’m not sure what is,” he told New Sarawak Tribune in response to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s statement during the Malaysia Day celebration that the federal government was committed to giving more focus on developing Sarawak and Sabah in line with its newly introduced Shared Prosperity Vision policy.
Abdul Karim said in fact Sarawak has been sharing “too much of its wealth to the extent that its own pace of development is affected” that even the supposed poorest state in Malaya is better developed than Sarawak.
“Thousands of schools are still in dilapidated state, while its hospitals and rural clinics are much to be desired even after 56 years of the Federation of Malaysia,” he said.
