SANDAKAN: More than 1,700 runners gathered at the Sibuga Sport Complex here to compete in the inaugural Elopura Marathon Sandakan, despite the heavy downpour sweeping through the entire Sandakan early Sunday morning, making it the biggest sporting event in the east coast of Sabah.
The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) here seized a total of 19,920kg of subsidised cooking oil during a raid in Jalan Lintas Sibuga on Saturday (March 19).
According to KPDNHEP Sandakan Branch Chief Azdy Zukkry John, a team of enforcement officers from the Sandakan office led by him conducted preliminary intelligence and discovered an activity involving the cutting of packets of cooking oil.
“They loaded the oil into a tanker truck after cutting the oil packets. Following that, we went on a store raid.
“During the raid, a total of 19,920kg of subsidised cooking oil were discovered in the store.
“Further investigations revealed that the supply was suspected to have been obtained from several subsidised cooking oil packaging factories in the district,” he told a press conference here, Monday.
Azdy said a 10-tonne Nissan lorry was also seized from a 38-year-old local who claimed to be the person in charge
Published on: Saturday, March 13, 2021
By: Winnie Kasmir
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SANDAKAN: The existing dumpsite near Mile 8, Jalan Lintas Sibuga here failed to comply with the required environmental regulations and is posing a serious health hazard to the people.
Member of Parliament for Sandakan, Vivian Wong
(pic), said she received numerous complaints from residents in Mile 6 and 7, here, especially from those who live in Taman Mawar and Taman Sibuga about the perennial pungent smell in their housing estates.
A recent meeting between her office and the District Department of Environment also revealed a disturbing find that the existing dump site had been operating without complying with the environmental rules and regulations.