{"id":95840,"date":"2020-10-08T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95840"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:46:46","slug":"sabah-state-assembly-speaker-ministers-take-oath-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95840","title":{"rendered":"Sabah state assembly speaker, ministers take oath of office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sabah-state-assembly-october.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95841\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sabah-state-assembly-october.jpg 640w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sabah-state-assembly-october-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>KOTA KINABALU,  Oct 8: Sabah state ministers taking their oath of office. (From left) Minister of Special Tasks Datuk Mohd Arifin Mohd Arif, Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Jafry Ariffin, Community Development and People&#8217;s Wellbeing Minister Shahelmy Yahya; Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Yakubah Khan; as well as Youth and Sports minister Datuk Ellron Angin. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0Former senator Datuk Kadzim M. Yahya\u00a0was today\u00a0sworn in as Sabah\u00a0state\u00a0assembly speaker before state Governor Tun Juhar Mahiruddin at the Istana Negeri here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also at the swearing-in ceremony were\u00a0Membakut assemblyman\u00a0Datuk Mohd Arifin Mohd Arif\u00a0of Bersatu\u00a0who took his oath of office as Sabah Special Functions Minister and Sukau assemblyman Datuk Jafry Ariffin\u00a0of UMNO\u00a0as State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tanjung Keramat&nbsp;assemblyman Shahelmy Yahya&nbsp;of UMNO (Community Development and People\u2019s Wellbeing Minister); Karambunai&nbsp;assemblyman Datuk Yakub Khan of UMNO (Science, Technology, Innovation Minister) and Sook&nbsp;assemblyman Datuk Ellron Angin&nbsp;of STAR (Youth and Sports Minister Sabah).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eighteen others took their oath as assistant minister namely Paginatan&nbsp;assemblyman Datuk Abidin Madingkir&nbsp;of STAR and Bandau&nbsp;assemblyman Datuk Wetrom Bahanda&nbsp;of&nbsp;Bersatu&nbsp;both as Assistant Ministers&nbsp;to the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Apas&nbsp;assemblyman&nbsp;Datuk Nizam Abu Bakar Titingan&nbsp;of Bersatu&nbsp;and Pantai Dalit&nbsp; assemblyman Jasnih Daya&nbsp;of UMNO&nbsp;were sworn in Finance Ministry assistant ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU, Oct 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0Former senator Datuk Kadzim M. Yahya\u00a0was today\u00a0sworn in as Sabah\u00a0state\u00a0assembly speaker before state Governor Tun Juhar Mahiruddin at the Istana Negeri here. Also at the swearing-in ceremony were\u00a0Membakut assemblyman\u00a0Datuk Mohd Arifin Mohd Arif\u00a0of Bersatu\u00a0who took his oath of office as Sabah Special Functions Minister and Sukau assemblyman Datuk Jafry Ariffin\u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":95841,"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\/95840"}],"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=95840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}