LABUAN: Labuan Women’s Affairs Association (Hawa) chief Fauziah Datuk Din hopes the new two-year term appointed members of the Advisory Council of Labuan Corporation (LC) during their two-year term would play a meaningful role in serving as the bridge between locals and the LC, while at the same time bring progress to the island.
She said priority should be on getting rid of stumbling procedures and to ensure executives are empowered to make decisions without delay.
“Councillors must not forget they are to serve the rakyat and decisions not in the interest of the island should be opposed without fear of not being reappointed again,” she said.
She also pointed the council is headed by local borns.
In the past, the Chairman of LC was usually a local leader but this tradition was broken in 2023 when Tan Sri Anifah Aman from Sabah was appointed.
He was now succeeded by a seasoned corporate leader from Putra Jaya Datuk Mohd Husni Salleh mid last year. The post of CEO in LC held by a local executive Rithuan Ismail was succeeded by Mohd Sukran Taib from the National Urban and Town Planning division at the end of November 2024.
Appointments of councillors in the local authority through elections was suspended in 1965 and later abolished under the Local Act 1976 with government appointed councillors becoming the norm.
