KOTA KINABALU: Sabah, which seems to have elections every two years, is in safe and stable hands now, says Gabungan Rakyat Sabah secretary-general Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun.

“We have wasted so much time politicking. Some of it is needless politicking. We need to work and to deliver,” he said.

The current government is stable, he said, adding that he hoped that there were no more attempts to invalidate or disrupt the state administration until it was time to call for the state election due in three years.

He said frequent elections were tiring for the people and not a good way for the state to operate.

Thus, he said, this must stop and elected representatives should carry out their duties as mandated by the people.

“We have so much potential, but I think we waste too much time in endless politicking. And in the end, we change government every few years,” he said.

Masidi also spoke on the need to focus on reviving the economy.

“If you focus on the actual work, you can bring in the needed investments,” he said.

In recent years, even during the pandemic, the state government had managed to bring in billions of ringgit worth of investment, the latest being the multibillion-ringgit steel company investment in Sipitang by a China company, he said at the Kinabalu Press Awards ceremony on Sunday prior to delivering Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor’s speech for the event.

In his speech text read out by Masidi, Hajiji expressed his appreciation to media practitioners for their work in bringing news to the public.

He said it was vital that media practitioners share only factual information and to write news that help shape the thinking of the community, and to do so with professionalism.