KUCHING: A DAP assemblyman has described as “interesting” former prime minister Najib Razak’s response to her question to the Sarawak government on why it is spending an “outrageous” sum of money on the appointment of a project management consultant for the state’s RM11 billion coastal road network and second trunk road projects.
Yong had urged the state government last week to explain its decision to appoint non-Sarawakian firm OPUS Consultants Sdn Bhd as the PMC at a sum of RM50 million for the first package of the two projects. “In my opinion, although Najib was former prime minister of Malaysia, he might not understand the sentiments of Sarawakians after all.