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Published on: Sunday, February 07, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: ALL Sabahans know the 30-year pathetic history of Sabah’s economic development. So many families have suffered. Let’s not waste time on the past except to learn from it and avoid repetition. There is no stupidity in making mistakes. Stupidity only comes when, knowing the mistakes and having suffered, we fail to rectify them.  Really dumb when we don’t learn and keep going the same downhill economic path after 30 years needless economic dispossession. Sabahans can only progress when we are ready to ditch the ghost of t...

Published on: Sunday, January 24, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: LAST week I wrote on Sabah’s appalling, atrocious deal in the oil palm industry. Sad that this situation is not confined to the oil palm industry. In fact, it exists in all aspects of Sabah’s economy, in government and the private sector, among our own businessmen, and professionals. Sabahans are 3rd class citizens in our very own state. Sabahans have become numbed, have lost the spirit to fight to protect our economic interests. We have accepted being economic refugees in our state as a fait accompli. Are Sabahan graduat...

Published on: Sunday, January 03, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Sabah has little sense of the value of time. We Sabahans have been consumed with admiration heaped upon us by non-Sabahans. I have heard too many times that our Sabah is the best, best in racial harmony, best in religious acceptance, best in environmental protection, the list goes on. While these may be true, we have stagnated and locked ourselves in an economic-development time capsule, drunk with these praises and oblivious to our pervasive rural/urban poverty and stunted economic growth. Why do I say this? Cos Sabahans have accepted...