Late Sabah minister described as a fighter for state rights


  • Nation
  • Friday, 29 Mar 2019

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah DAP chairman and two-term Sandakan MP Datuk Stephen Wong Tien Fatt, who died of a heart attack yesterday, will be remembered as a fighter who sought to restore the status of Sabah and Sarawak as equal partners in the Federation of Malaysia.

Wong had proposed a private Bill to change Sabah and Sarawak from one of 13 states in the first article of the Federal Constitution to one of three parties of the Federation.

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