KOTA KINABALU: Sabah should fire non-performing executives sitting in the boards of state government-linked companies (GLCs).
Recently, state Finance Minister Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun had said that out of 100 GLCs, only a few were bringing profits to the state government.
Masidi had also lambasted and warned GLCs that they should not make themselves as if they are an extension of the state government department and wasting taxpayers'' money to pay their staff' salaries.
Tungku assemblyman Assafal P Alian said that the government should not let those failed chairpersons or board of directors continue holding their positions for another year.
"Otherwise, we surely would have wasted hundreds of millions of ringgit (in paying their salaries)," he said in a statement.
Assafal also said that the performance of GLCs was indirectly related to Gabungan Rakyat Sabah leaders as those chairpersons or board of directors were recommended by the state cabinet.
He also urged Masidi to explain why the RM320 million, which was initially announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as an allocation to address water woes, has been placed under the Rolling Plan 4 and 5 of 12th Malaysia Plan.
"This is no aid, grant or loan at all but a normal development allocation!
"Why did the State Cabinet not secure the funding of at least RM1 billion (under RP4) to alleviate Sabah's water crisis?"