Shafie: Budget to develop green economy for Sabah


KOTA KINABALU: A green economy with a thrust towards helping the rural poor through proper land use is on the Parti Warisan Sabah-led state government’s maiden RM4.27bil budget for 2019.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said, when tabling the budget at the Sabah State Assembly sitting Friday, that comprehensive measures were being taken towards developing a green economy that would generate jobs and downstream industries.

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