KOTA KINABALU: Vice President of the Parti Kesejahteraan Demokratik Masyarakat (KDM), Henry Saimpon, appealed to the Ministry of Education Malaysia (KPM) to fulfil the promise of constructing SMK Nabalu as previously pledged.
In making the call, he said it was high time the SMK building project, which has been delayed for so long, be implemented.
In welcoming the 2025 Budget, which allocates the largest amount of RM64.1 billion to the Ministry of Education, Henry said that the SMK Nabalu project deserves attention for the benefit of students in the Nabalu area and its surrounding villages, which are located near the foot of Mount Kinabalu.
“If the suitable site becomes an obstacle to building a concrete building for SMK Nabalu, the KPM can consider the possibility of building a semi-concrete building first to enable the school session up to Form 3 to be conducted like the SMK Kiulu session before 1980.
“Therefore, KDM Kiulu appeals for this project to be continued so as not to marginalise the residents of Nabalu and its surroundings from the mainstream development,” he said in a statement today.
Henry said this when commenting on the announcement of the 2023 budget by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in the Dewan Rakyat last Friday.
He said that in line with the vision and mission of KDM Kiulu, he also urged the Ministry of Health to consider the possibility of building a branch of the Village Clinic in three villages, namely Kg Tudan, Kg Mantob, and Kg Lokos Kiulu.
According to him, this is important especially for providing advice to pregnant mothers considering that those villages and the surrounding villages are quite far from the nearest existing clinic services or the Kiulu Hospital located in the town of Kiulu.
Henry also hopes that the construction of village roads will be intensified in the Kiulu constituency, including the Ranap-Tibabar-Kitapo-Ranau road.
Besides the branch office of the Agriculture Department, he also hopes that a branch office of the newly set up Sabah Paddy Board can be established in the Kiulu constituency in the near future.
