SARAWAK DUN | The auditor-general will sit on all project award committees under the Sarawak tender board chaired by the state financial secretary, Abang Johari Openg said today.

The Sarawak chief minister added that he would also be inviting the MACC to attend the state tender meetings.

He said this was to further enhance its excellent achievement and good record of governance.

“I wish to repeat to members of the opposition in the august house if they wish to challenge us, challenge us with facts and not simply create public perception and engage in character assassination.

“That is cheap politics, and I want to call on all Sarawakians not to fall prey to this cheap politics of the opposition,” said the chief minister in his winding-up speech on the last day of the Sarawak Legislative Assembly sitting today.

Abang Johari said the objectives of the opposition members were to bring down the government using perception, because they do not have the facts.

“I am not governing the state for my own personal benefit. This is about our state and our people and our future.

“This is not a game of cards, and I will not allow this state to be destroyed by cheap politics.

"Only the state tender board and the state cabinet decide on projects to be implemented, and not any government heads,” he added.

Abang Johari said the Sarawak government should deliver to the people of Sarawak at all costs and no expense would be spared.

“Our people have been left too far behind, and we must catch up. If the federal government does not help us, we will help ourselves,” he said, adding that he would exhaust all avenues to deliver to the people of Sarawak.

He thanked members of the state assembly for speaking as one voice on the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) committee with the interests of Sarawak at stake.

- Bernama