KOTA KINABALU:
Sabah DAP Election Committee Chairman Dr Hiew King Cheu yesterday thanked the people of Sabah forgiving their support to all its 15 candidates in the just concluded 12th General Election, especially for electing him as the Member of Parliament for Kota Kinabalu and his colleague in Tawau, Jimmy Wong as the State Assemblyman for Sri Tanjung. In a joint statement issued here together with Jimmy yesterday, Dr Hiew also considered their hard- fought victory as the “people’s victory” and a clear demonstration of their (the people) aspiration to have a ‘trustworthy voice’ in the Parliament and State Legislative Assembly. “We realize that we owed our position to the people and we would not let the people down,” he pledged. Hiew was convinced that with the strong presence of 82 opposition members in the Parliament now, things would not be the same as in the past when the Barisan Nasional (BN) Government could easily pass laws and policies that were unfavourable to the people, at their whims and fancy.
