
A Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) assemblyman has panned an online article which compared the direction of state-owned Petroleum Sarawak Bhd (Petros) with the troubled Sarawak Cable Bhd.
Tupong assemblyman Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman said the comparison was too simplistic and essentially dismissed the Sarawak government’s professional capabilities, Borneo Post reported.
Fazzrudin, chief political secretary to Sarawak premier Abang Johari Openg, said the article made it seem as though all Sarawakians were incompetent when that was far from the truth.
“The claim that Sarawak Cable’s experience is an analogue for Petros’s failure is inaccurate. Sarawak Cable operated in an entirely different sector – cables, manufacturing and infrastructure – whereas Petros is in oil and gas.
“In scale and…