Rural Sabah villagers turn up in KK demanding issuance native land titles

Malaysian International Humanitarian Organization (MHO) representatives handing highlighting the plight of villagers over land issues in three districts to Sabah Lands and Survey Department director Datuk Bernard Liew (right) in Kota Kinabalu.

KOTA KINABALU: More than 1,000 residents from six villages in Sabah's interior Nabawan are claiming their native land titles offered to them have been cancelled by the state government.

Some 200 of the villagers from Sapalut turned up at the state capital to handover their letter to the Lands and Survey Department director Datuk Bernard Liew Tuesday (March 21) asking for answers as to why the native title grants were cancelled by the government.