KUCHING, July 14, 2024 - The RM100 million funds that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had promised to give for fixing dilapidated schools and clinics in Sarawak has yet to be channeled, Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Dr Sim Kui Hian said today.
Nevertheless, he said the state government will keep track of the premier’s promise that was made at the Gawai Dayak dinner on June 22 this year.
Anwar made the promise after Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg had earlier said that the state government would be prepared to use RM200 million of the state funds to do repair works on dilapidated schools and clinics in the state.
He had said he expected the federal government to reimburse the state government after the repair works had been done.
Asked by reporters after launching a charity food fair organised by the Kuching Autistic Association at the Association of Churches in Sarawak (ACS) building, Dr Sim said the state government had not received anything from the federal government.
“But having said that, we are not going to wait (to start repairing works on the schools and clinics),” he said.
“We are going to plan as the premier had already allocated the funds. We know that what the premier has allocated will happen. Right?
“What the prime minister had promised, we will track his promise.
“That's all I can say.
“Because if you ask the Ministry of Health, they also don't know when the money is going to come,” Dr Sim, who is also the Minister of Public Health, Housing and Local Government, said.
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