Hajiji says Shafie should 'stop lying of Warisan effort'

TUARAN: Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) President Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal should stop lying to the people of Sabah that the land titles he is handing over during his current district-to-district tour is an initiative of his Warisan Government.

Sabah Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) Chief Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor (pix) said Shafie lied and it clearly showed it is fishing for votes and support from the people.

"Why hurriedly handing over the land titles through a special district-to-district tour throughout Sabah? Why not before the Assembly was dissolved?” asked Hajiji.

He said the land titles handed over by Shafie had already been prepared much earlier through the Mobile Native Unit (Pantas) which was initiated by the previous Barisan Nasional government.

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He said Pantas was a noble effort to assist in speeding up the issuance of customary land titles to the people with funding from the Federal Government, following the delays encountered in the surveying process.

According to him, this approach was meant to ensure the issuance of Native Title (NT) land grants for those inhabiting Native Customary Right (NCR) lands can be speeded up to overcome the delays if going through the normal land application process.

“Pantas was an initiative of the previous government with the cooperation from the Federal Government for resolving the NCR issue which has been troubling the indigenous people in Sabah for decades.

“Hence, the customary land grants had already been processed through the Pantas Programme but which the previous government ran out of time. So it was not able to hand it over to the people and now being handed over by Shafie who claims it is the initiative of the Warisan Government.

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“This is a lie. Shafie should stop using the customary land title grants to gain the people’s support now that Warisan’s popularity and support are dwindling,” he said, when officiating the Tuaran Bersatu Armada Conference at Linangkit Cultural Village, Kg Selupoh, Saturday.

Hajiji, who is incumbent Sulaman assemblyman, said the people of Sabah are not blind. They know that Pantas which has been implemented since 2011 is an initiative of the previous government.

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