Zahid pledges 100 new homes in each Sabah seat

The homes would be built under the Rakyat Sejahtera housing programme of the rural and regional development ministry.

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (second from right) at the launch of the Sentuhan Kasih Desa programme in Tuaran, Sabah. (Bernama pic)

TUARAN:

 Every state constituency in Sabah will see 100 new houses being built next year with repairs carried out to other houses, deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today.

The new houses will be built under the Rakyat Sejahtera housing programme of the rural and regional development ministry, said Zahid, who is also the minister.

Zahid said Sabah had received RM136 million in allocations under the scheme, involving 852 new units and 2,729 repaired units.

“From that total, Tuaran parliamentary constituency received RM6.6 million for 43 new units and 123 repaired units,” he said at the launch of the Sentuhan Kasih Desa programme tonight.

He said that the Sentuhan Kasih Desa programme was an initiative to empower the economic status of rural entrepreneurs via sales promotion, support services access and exposure to wider markets

He said his ministry had played a significant role in transforming rural development, especially in Sabah, through large allocations from the federal government.

“The allocation for Sabah in the 2026 budget is bigger than that of other states as the federal government and other federal ministries are very concerned about the state and want its problems to be resolved,” he said. - FMT