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GOVERNMENTS come and go but the people of Sabah remain for better or for worse. In the eyes of the public, after the May 16 fiasco, it is for the worse.

MALAYSIA, 60 years since its formation, remains ensnared in the quagmire of identity politics, where race and religion are wielded as tools for personal gain.

As we approach the end of another year, people have asked me what we have achieved so far on Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63). I replied, MA63 is just two letters and two numbers, and maybe nothing more.

LIM Kit Siang’s alleged remarks made to Malaysian students in Manchester, United Kingdom late last month has landed him in hot soup. He was alleged to have said that the Federal Constitution does not stop any non-Malay from being the Prime Minister.

In 2015, a controversy raged when people discovered that the Federal government agencies had removed East Malaysian ethnicities on government forms and lumped ethnic groups under the term “lain-lain” (others).