‘There’s no better rep than Awang Tengah’

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SUNDAR, Lawas: The people of Sundar will continue to put their hope in Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan as their assemblyman to bring further development to the area.

THANKFUL: Cheng and one-year-old daughter Liaw Liang Wen.

Both the Malay and Chinese communities here agree that they have found no better person to represent them in the government than Awang Tengah .

Ketua Kaum of Kampung Sebelah Matsarudin Hussin said his people fully back Awang Tengah as the BN candidate in the coming state election.

“During our recent village chiefs’ meeting, eight village chiefs from here passed a resolution that Datuk Amar Awang Tengah should continue to lead us,” Matsarudin told BAT here yesterday.

He said Awang Tengah has proven himself to be a credible leader who had brought much development to the area.

“We have all the infrastructure and utilities provided and I believe there will be more development projects implemented here to benefit the people,” he said.

Matsarudin said the government had been kind to the low income group, especially the majority of the people in Sundar, who are mostly farmers and fishermen.

“The government has been very helpful and provide assistance and subsidies to farmers and fishermen to improve their livelihood,” he pointed out.

He also hoped the government would increase the allowance of the ketua kaum from the present RM450 per month as “it is below the poverty line of RM700”.

“We hope we will get the new scheme in the coming election as it has been announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in this year’s budget,” he said.

Najib has announced that ketua kaum/kapitan China will be given RM800 per month beginning January this year.

Cheng Liang Chu, 39, a Chinese mother of six, praised Awang Tengah for his concern for the Chinese community here though there are only six families.

“We are very thankful to him as he has been very helpful in setting up the Chinese school here though our population is very small,” she said.

Cheng added that the Malays from nearby villages had also been sending their children there.

“Now most of the pupils are Malays,” she said.

She revealed that most of the Chinese have migrated to greener pastures.