The Borneo Post

Committee on affairs of community leaders set up

- By Norni Mahadi reporters@theborneop­ost.com

MIRI: A divisional-level committee has been set up to look into the affairs of community leader services.

Miri Resident Sherrina Hussaini said the committee was set up following the state government’s decision to empower the Residents Office to appoint, extend and terminate the services of community leaders.

“Before this, all matters related to appointmen­t, extending and terminatin­g the services of

Before this, all matters related to appointmen­t, extending and terminatin­g the services of community leaders had to be done at the Chief Minister’s Department. Sherrina Hussaini, Miri Resident

community leaders had to be done at the Chief Minister’s Department.

“Now, with this committee, it will speed up the solving of issues related to community leaders, particular in the delay of appointmen­t and service extension. However, the decision on their services has to be made unanimousl­y by the committee,” she told the media after presenting certificat­es of service extension of temenggong to four community heads at the Resident Office here yesterday.

On the compositio­n of the committee here, Sherrina takes the responsibi­lity of the chairman with her deputy the committee’s secretary. She added that elected representa­tives and district officers also play roles in the committee.

Earlier, she presented certificat­e of service extension to Temenggong Joseph Ngau Lian ( Kenyah), Temenggong Wilson Limping ( Iban) and Temenggong Abdul Rahman Fadzail (Malay).

Temenggong Datuk Hasan Sui (for Penan) was unable to attend the event.

Miri District Officer Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusuf was also present at the event.

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 ??  ?? Sherrina (centre), Abdul Aziz (second left) and others in a photocall with Abdul Rahman (fourth right), Wilson (third left) and Joseph (fourth left).
Sherrina (centre), Abdul Aziz (second left) and others in a photocall with Abdul Rahman (fourth right), Wilson (third left) and Joseph (fourth left).

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