Dr Edwin Confident to Recapture Kapayan

PENAMPANG : Parti Kesejahteraan Demokratik Masyarakat (KDM) candidate for Kapayan, Dr Edwin Bosi, is going for a kill.

Dr Edwin who was Kapayan assemblyman in 2013 till 2018, wants the outgoing assemblywoman, Datuk Jannie Lasimbang to explain why exactly she withdrew her famous "40% tax summon" after she joined the madani government in 2022.

"Jannie has to explain why she withdrew their summon (together with 10 others). Is it because she prioritised her personal position over Sabahans right?" he asked.

According to Dr Edwin, Jannie must explain the matter with great honesty if she still wishes for support from the Kapayan people.

He said the constitutional Sabah's right to 40% of all taxes collected in Sabah is not a small matter to Sabahans as it probably worth RM600 billion, and it could benefit Sabah tremendously. 

"If we have such fund, flooding in Penampang can be managed well, we could provide transportation or railway around Sabah, good highways and roads.

"Also there could be efficiency in water and electricity supply, we could build monorail or LRT, and many more," he said adding he was confident of recapturing Kapayan from the DAP's assemblywomen.

Dr Edwin said his confidence that he could unseat Jannie and defeat 11 other candidates in Kapayan is based on the diminishing popularity of Jannie, the overall rejection by Sabahans to Malaya party,  and the positive responses of the voters he met.

He won Kapayan on DAP ticket in 2013, but left DAP on the fourth year of his term when he disagreed with DAP, to become Parti Kerjasama Anak Negeri assemblyman.

According to Dr Edwin if re-elected, he would review the current commercial construction at plaza 88 (where also managed to stop the construction of PPRT at the same site).

Jannie, he said, did not help the residents, whose houses were affected by the massive piling work.

I am also pursuing my proposal to turn the old burned building next to HSBC in Kota Kinabalu into a Chinese museum.