Let us study the proposal for our local GLCs to invest in Sarawak United FC

Recently the local media had asked for my comments on the pro­posal for our state gov­ern­ment-linked com­pa­nies to pur­chase a sub­stan­tial stake in #Sarawak United FC but such initiatives must be thor­oughly stud­ied be­fore any de­ci­sions could be made. I told our media friends that such situation must be on the will­ing buyer and will­ing buyer ba­sis. 

Similarly, such pro­posal can­not just be put to the gov­ern­ment and be sim­ply adopted like that and it is still a good pro­posal but it has to be deeply stud­ied first. The question posed was due to moves made by Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion of Sarawak (FAS) pres­i­dent, Dato Posa Ma­jais who had writ­ten to the state gov­ern­ment seek­ing in­vest­ment from gov­ern­ment-linked com­pa­nies to help Sarawak United FC to re­main fi­nan­cially sound. It was re­ported that Dato Posa himself and FAS are the cur­rent share­hold­ers and po­ten­tial in­vestors will be en­ti­tled to up to 70 per cent of stake in the club.

On the recent an­nounce­ment by Se­nior Min­is­ter Datuk Seri Is­mail Sabri al­low­ing tourism ac­tiv­i­ties to be car­ried out in Con­di­tional and Re­cov­ery Move­ment Con­trol Or­der ar­eas, I have informed our local media members that Sarawa is still sub­jected to the stan­dard op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures (SOPs) an­nounced by State Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee.

The SOPs an­nounced for Penin­su­lar Malaysia was in view of the Covid-19 sit­u­a­tion there but we will study those pro­ce­dures as stip­u­lated by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment and adapt it ac­cord­ingly to our lo­cal re­quire­ments if nec­es­sary.