{"id":85796,"date":"2020-08-01T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85796"},"modified":"2020-08-01T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T04:16:41","slug":"patriot-urges-sabah-politicians-to-focus-on-solving-states-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85796","title":{"rendered":"Patriot urges Sabah politicians to focus on solving state&#8217;s problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The\u00a0National Association of Patriots (Patriot) today called on Sabah politicians to stop the practice of party-hopping and focus on\u00a0solving problems plaguing the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patriot president Datuk Mohamed Arshad Raji said in a statement that they should instead work hard to uplift the socio-economic status&nbsp;of the Sabah people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said despite being rich in natural resources and biodiversity, Sabah is still an underdeveloped region in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSabah has been grappling with migrant issues for decades. There seems to be no end to the problem that caused serious socio-economic and security issues,\u201d he said .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;Thursday, Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal announced the dissolution of the state assembly, paving the way for a state election to be held within 60 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day earlier, former chief minister Tan Sri Musa&nbsp;Aman&nbsp;had claimed that he had secured a simple majority to form a new state government.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The\u00a0National Association of Patriots (Patriot) today called on Sabah politicians to stop the practice of party-hopping and focus on\u00a0solving problems plaguing the state. Patriot president Datuk Mohamed Arshad Raji said in a statement that they should instead work hard to uplift the socio-economic status&nbsp;of the Sabah people. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":20072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}