KUALA LUMPUR: Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has laid out his plan on how to spend the RM17 billion allocated to his portfolio in Budget 2016, with Sabah’s security, the army’s welfare and reviving the National Service Training Programme (PLKN) taking centre stage.
In a statement, Hishammuddin thanked his cousin Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for the allocation despite the country’s current economy and said the money would be put to good use.
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