DEPUTY Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof (picture) announced the Cabinet has approved an additional allocation of RM100 million to resolve water supply issues in Sabah.

This is an addition to the allocation of RM300 million grants approved last year.

“It is with pleasure that I announce that the Economy Ministry has approved (the additional RM100 million),” he told Dewan Rakyat today.

Fadillah, who is also minister in charge of Sabah and Sarawak, was responding to questions from Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin (Barisan Nasional-Kinabatangan) and Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis (Parti Warisan-Kota Belud) who asked Fadillah about the federal government’s solution to the water supply issue in Sabah.

He said four new projects worth RM200 million had been approved under the 12th Malaysia Plan’s (12MP) fourth rolling plan, which would serve as stop-gap measures for the issue with the priority given was to replace old pipes, which would be funded by grants and implemented together with Sabah. — TMR