KOTA KINABALU: State Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun (pic) said negotiations between Sabah and Federal on the 40 per cent revenue sharing formula are still ongoing.
Masidi, who is leading the Sabah delegation in the negotiations, said they have not stopped negotiating.
“But the Chief Minister have said it and I have said it, we will consider legal avenues that is available to us," he said, Saturday.
“The Constitution itself provides for an independent assessor and that is one of the options that we can look into if negotiations fail after some reasonable time."
He was commenting on a recent statement by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili.
Maximus was quoted as saying that the time has come for Sabah to bring the issue of the so-called non-implementation of the 40 per cent revenue entitlement to Putrajaya.
“First and foremost, as has been announced in the State Assembly and many other subsequent statement, we have not concluded it.
"So the issue of us taking or not taking does not even arise,” he said.