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Kota Kinabalu: Former Inland Revenue Board (IRB) chief executive officer Datuk Seri Dr Sabin Samitah has been appointed the Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) Mayor.

The Sabah Chief Minister’s Department, in a statement stated that Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor handed over the appointment letter to Sabin, 63, in a brief ceremony at Menara Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu, Tuesday.

Also present at the ceremony were Sabah Entrepreneurship and Industrial Development Minister Datuk Phoong Jin Zhe, Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Abidin Madingkir and Sabah State Secretary Datuk Safar Untong.

Sabin, who is from Ranau, replaced Datuk Noorliza Awang Alip as the seventh Mayor of DBKK.

Among the posts he held before included as Director-General of the Anti-Financial Crime Center in the Prime Minister’s Department.