BAU: Tasik Biru assemblyman Datuk Henry Harry Jinep said Sarawakians want someone who understands the people’s needs to become the next Prime Minister.
He said this in response to a statement made by Batang Sadong MP Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri at a forum in Kuala Lumpur that Sarawakians want former Barisan Nasional (BN) chief Datuk Seri Najib Razak back as prime minister.
“A prime minister has to know the people’s needs, especially those of the rural communities, and that should be the main focus of someone credible enough to be the next prime minister,” Henry told reporters when met at Carnival Gawai Redeems 2019 at Redeems Centre here yesterday.
Nancy in her statement yesterday as quoted by The Malay Mail said “If you talk to a normal Sarawakian, they want Najib back because he went to all the rural areas. I’m not trying to promote him, but he knew what Sarawak needed. He went to Sarawak more than 60 times and he tried to make things easier for us.
“Now, we only have one full
minister and one deputy minister from Sarawak. Those are the only representatives we have from Sarawak,” she told the forum organised by the Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) on where Malaysia will be in four years.
Nancy said the decrease in the number of federal funded projects, including infrastructural development, in Borneo after Pakatan Harapan won last year’s general election had not made the coalition popular here.
