KENINGAU: Tadau Kaamatan today will be more meaningful to residents of Sook, 45km from here as Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be visiting them before gracing the harvest festival.
In the two-day visit to Sabah, the prime minister is scheduled to open the Sabah Handicraft Centre and perform the groundbreaking ceremony of the Keningau Integrated Livestock Centre in Sook before attending the national Tadau Kaamatan Open House in the evening.
Tomorrow, Najib is scheduled to lead a walkabout in Keningau and Bingkor before visiting OKK (native chief) Sodomon at his residence in Bingkor, Keningau which would bring fond memories of his father, the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein’s visit there.
A resident of Kampung Sri Menanti, Alexander Kunsalam, 32, said villagers were pleased to receive the prime minister, who is willing to go down to the grassroots to meet the people and listen to their woes.
A housewife, Lurita Inton, 40, hoped the prime minister would bring a ‘special gift’ to the people in the interior, especially basic needs such as clean water.
For senior citizen Luntipon Brass, 65, from Kampung Kabatang, he hoped the prime minister would gather feedbacks from the people during the visit and expressed his excitement of being able to glimpse the prime minister. — Bernama