NEW SESSION: Juhar and wife Tun Norlidah RM Jasni (front left) arrive at Sabah legislative Assembly. Assembly speaker Datuk Salleh Tun Said is on second right, second row. — Bernama photo
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Yang Dipertua Negeri, Tun Juhar Mahiruddin has urged the private sector to be more involved in sectors identified under the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) in the country.
He said Sabah had an edge and good potential in developing sectors such as tourism, agriculture and commodities.
“In the government efforts to assist the private sector to drive the NKEA and implement entry point projects (EPP), the Facilitation Fund had been set up to develop supporting infrastructure for private sector investments in these projects.
“As such, it is the aspiration of the state government to see the active involvement of the private sector in the state and to utilise all the new creative financing approaches introduced by the government under the Public-Private Partnership Programme (PPP),” he said in his policy speech at the State Legislative Assembly sitting here yesterday.
He also hoped that the development of human resources could be further strengthened in achieving the status of a developed nation with high income.
He said innovative and creative human capital formed the main catalyst in innovation development of a particular country. — Bernama