00:00Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah leader Nizam Abubakar Titingan said the opposition should be grateful
00:06to caretaker Chief Minister Hajiji Noor for defending Sabah's natural resources from
00:12exploitation by greedy outsiders. Nizam said Warisan and UMNO should have supported Hajiji's
00:18decisive action in revoking the prospecting licenses issued to some 20 companies linked
00:24to businessman Albert Teh, which had the effect of immediately diffusing the mining scandal that
00:29had rocked the state. Instead, Nizam said Hajiji's efforts were disregarded with the two parties
00:35more concerned about using the opportunity to topple the state government rather than safeguard
00:40Sabah's interests.
00:59In a podcast, Teh admitted that Hajiji had revoked the licenses as too many had been issued. He also acknowledged that the licenses involved only permitted mineral prospecting, not extraction.
01:17Nizam recounted that Hajiji had faced threats from a powerful cartel allegedly backed by a former senior civil servant that was determined to see the prospecting licenses approved.
01:39Nizam Abubakar Titingan said the
01:57Nizam Abubakar Titingan said the
02:07It is one of the most important parts of the country, the Sabah and the Rakyat Sabah.
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