Kota Kinabalu: Things may have taken a different turn for Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor – and for Sabah – had an offer letter from the Customs Department that his application to become an officer had been successful, not arrive on time around 1983.
Hajiji had applied for the job during his semester break after coming across an advertisement in the Daily Express of a vacancy. About a month and half passed and was about to continue to do his Masters at the University of New Hampshire in Boston, USA, when he was asked to attend an interview.
“I didn’t feel I could get the job and was prepared to go back to the US. In fact, I received the offer letter just a week before departure,” he said.
The post required him to be based in Tawau as a Superintendant. At that time, the scale was A20 or Division One.
