Yee should resign for low broadband penetration in Sabah

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Exco Vice Youth Chief, Simon Chin urges YB Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai to tender his resignation as the Minister of Resource Development and Information Technology.  After being the Minister in charge of Information Technology for the last seven years, Yee now revealed that Sabah has very low broadband penetration and he blamed the Federal Ministry for neglecting the development of the communication and information technology in the State.

Simon Chin said in a statement issued today after Yee Moh Chai complained that YB Datuk  Dr Rais Yatin,  the Minister of Information, Communication and Culture, did not take action to solve the Broadband coverage issues in Sabah.

Simon stated that Yee is seeking an early excuse for failing to deliver his duty as Sabah State Minister for ICT.  At the last State assembly sitting, Yee had proudly stated his confidence in achieving 30%  broadband penetration for the state by this year end.

Simon further stated that Datuk Dr Yee had got all his priority wrong in handling the State ICT development. Any other country would develop the infrastructure or broadband connectivity first before launching any other ICT programme.  Instead Dr Yee spent multi Million ringgits every year in teaching people on how to operate a computer!

Simon also remind Datuk Dr Yee that Sabah was the pioneer  State in Malaysia to launch the E-government 10 years ago, but it seem today, our state E-government application is not much different from when it was initially  launched.