MADANI Rakyat 2024 Sayangi Sabah Prog Records Over 480,000 Visitors

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- The MADANI Rakyat 2024 Sayangi Sabah programme achieved its target by recording a total of 485,474 visitors during the three-day event held at Likas Sports Complex, here, from Friday to yesterday.

Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali said the programme for Sabah zone which was opened by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, succeeded in achieving its objective in the effort to bring government programmes and services to the grassroots level.

"The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) as the lead ministry would like to express its gratitude to all parties across the ministry as well as federal and state agencies, private companies, entrepreneurs and Sabahans who came to enliven the programme," he said in a statement today.

Armizan said the implementation of the MADANI Rakyat 2024 Programme for Sabah zone was a collaboration between the Performance Acceleration Coordination Unit of the Prime Minister's Department (JPM) together with KPDN and the Sabah government.

He said the programme involved as many as 36 units of the ministry and agencies of the federal government and the Sabah government in addition to the involvement of the private sector by offering a variety of services which received extraordinary response from visitors.

Armizan said as many as 215 rakyat touch point services were among the components provided in the programme, besides involving 118 MADANI Sales entrepreneurs.

It also featured asset exhibitions by four government agencies, 14 employers at the career carnival, 40 engagement sessions, 20 outdoor activities, 28 cost of living services and 18 youth agenda activities, he said.

At the opening ceremony, Armizan said, the KITA GEMPUR initiative which is the campaign against manipulation and leakage, was also launched as a strategic move by the government through KPDN to build a mass movement to deal with the issue of manipulation in business activities and leakage involving controlled goods and subsidised controlled goods.

He said the presentation of individual land title deeds (Native Title) to representatives of recipients  from eight districts was also held at the ceremony and the effort was part of an initiative under the Sabah State Customary Land Service Programme (PANTAS).

It was implemented through the assistance of the federal government's allocation by the Implementation Coordination Unit, JPM  and implemented by the Sabah Land and Survey Department, he said.

According to him, one of the objectives of PANTAS is to preserve and protect the interests of the Natives of Sabah in their claim to customary land rights and land ownership under the Sabah Land Ordinance.

The opening ceremony of the programme also witnessed the Prime Minister handing over cheques to the recipient representatives of the MADANI Community Prosperity Programme to improve the socioeconomics of the people through the Community Based Project approach and launch the MADANI Special Plate Number for bidding purposes, he said.

-- BERNAMA