KUCHING, Oct 14: Sarawak Legislative Assembly (DUNS) Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar today rejected Padungan assemblyman Chong Chieng Jen’s suggestion over a pagination error in the Sarawak Budget 2027 document, saying it was “unthinkable, unimaginable, and beyond any figment of imagination” that the State Financial Secretary and his office would deliberately commit such an error to single out Chong from the other assembly members.
Delivering his ruling during today’s DUNS sitting, Asfia said the State Financial Secretary and his office upheld the highest standards of integrity and professionalism, adding that the alleged error had been checked and verified by the DUNS Secretary.
He said the issue concerned the physical arrangement of pages in the sole copy reportedly received by Chong and did not affect the accuracy, completeness or integrity of the establishment figures contained in the budget document.
