Tengku Zafrul Aziz said the deferment of rural road prijects should be viewed in the context of national fiscal management and rising contractual commitments that had exceeded the original allocations approved by Parliament. (Bernama pic)KUALA LUMPUR: Sabah and Sarawak have never been sidelined in rural road development, with allocations for the two states set to nearly triple between 2023 and 2027 compared with the preceding five years, says the prime minister’s senior political adviser, Tengku Zafrul Aziz.
He said rural road expenditure will total RM11 billion for the 2023-2027 period, including allocations for this year and next year, compared with RM3.7 billion between 2018 and 2022.
The increase reflected the government's commitment to rural infrastructure development, particularly in Sabah and Sarawak, which receive about half of the country's total rural road expenditure each year, he said in a social media post.
