{"id":5751,"date":"2021-08-04T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2021-08-04T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:11:35","slug":"changing-government-will-not-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-why-waste-time-and-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/08\/04\/changing-government-will-not-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-why-waste-time-and-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing government\u2019 will not stop the spread of Covid-19, why waste time and effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU, August 4, 2021: Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Dr Joachim Gunsalam, said it is important for the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) State Government to give its full attention to resolving the Covid-19 problem in the State, than wasting time and effort on the \u201ctukar kerajaan (changing government)\u201d politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is definitely not the time for changing a government. How can we be sure that the spread of Covid-19 will stop after we change the government? Or maybe it will get worse\u2026there is no certainty,&#8221; said Dr Joachim, who is also Minister of Industrial Development (MID).<\/p>\n<p>The Kundasang Assemblyman said the people of Sabah had given GRS the mandate in last year\u2019s State Election, so it is the duty of GRS leaders now to fulfil it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us not continue with playing politics and give full focus on resolving the Covid-19 problem,\u201d said Dr Joachim, who is also Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) Vice President, in supporting the GRS State Government to continue the mandate given by the people.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Joachim said the GRS Government is also on track in attracting foreign and local investors to Sabah.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Hajiji Haji Noor, who is also the GRS Chairman, said leaders of the GRS have reached a consensus to maintain cooperation in the State Government and uphold the mandate given by the people at the 16th State elections in September last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU, August 4, 2021: Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Dr Joachim Gunsalam, said it is important for the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) State Government to give its full attention to resolving the Covid-19 problem in the State, than wasting time and effort on the \u201ctukar kerajaan (changing government)\u201d politics. \u201cThis is definitely not the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}