SIBU: Sarawak Assistant Minister of Local Government and Housing, Dr Annuar Rapaee, is deeply saddened over the death of his longtime friend, former Bernama editor and co-founder of Bernama Radio, Openg Onn Net, 62, at the Sarawak General Hospital last night.
\nDr Annuar, who is also Nangka assemblyman, said that he had known Openg for more than 20 years.
\n\u201cHe texted me last Thursday and I told him to take care of his health. On Friday, I texted him again but he didn\u2019t reply and I started to get worried about him,\u201d he said when contacted here today.
\nHe had conveyed his condolences to Openg\u2019s family last night.
\nRegarded Openg as a very nice person who had never asked for any favour, Dr Annuar said that Openg assisted him at every state assembly sitting for the last 10 years by helping him prepare his speeches and debates.
\n\u201cHe has fantastic writing skills, but sadly he couldn\u2019t help me finish my book \u201cPolitical Heart\u201d,\u201d he said.
\nDr Annuar recalled a memorable moment with Openg, when the latter came to meet him to check his heart condition while he was still working as a cardiologist at Serdang Hospital in 2011.
\n\u201cHe informed me then that I had been unofficially selected as a candidate in 2011. He told me that he had received a text message from a reliable source on the matter at that time.
\n\u201cI was shocked and did not believe it. I even refused him when he said that wanted to interview me, and I told him to wait first,\u201d recalled Dr Annuar.
\nAccording to Openg\u2019s wife, Sabariah Zaini, 54, Openg breathed his last at about 9.44 pm, after suffering from cancer for several months.
\nThe couple has seven children, aged between 14 and 30.
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