KOTA KINABALU: Critics of the proposed Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA) are urged to support the move as Sabah is facing significant losses if there are continued delays to cash in on carbon credit sales.
Anuar Ghani, political secretary to Deputy Chief Minister I Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, contended that Sabah could potentially lose RM8mil each day the NCA’s implementation was held back.“Any undertaking to stop the implementation of the NCA and losses throughout must be backed up by a promise and ability to make good the losses suffered by the state,” he said in a statement here on Monday .
The former senator said this was similar to the NCA although Kitingan had never made any direct reference to the controversial deal which State Attorney General Datuk Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof had said was “unenforceable” in February 2022. He added that Kitingan was appointed by the state Cabinet as chairman of the steering and management committee for the implementation of the NCA on March 4, 2022.“The statements by the Sabah AG has been superseded by events,” he said.
“Unless he has a better plan to generate similar income for Sabah, I suggest he should step aside from this political game and start contributing. Besides that, he also questioned the extent of Lasimbang’s representation of indigenous groups, contending that he was only advocating for a small and selected section, adding there were wider and larger indigenous groups who supported the NCA.
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