WARISAN Youth chief Mohd Azis Jamman has accused the Sabah chapter of Bersih of nitpicking when it criticised the party’s programmes, saying the polls watchdog did nothing when Barisan Nasional was running the state.

Azis was responding to the concerns raised by Sabah Bersih over the use of government machinery to hold the state’s first job and entrepreneur fair next month.

The group said career fairs should be organised by ministries like the Youth and Sports Ministry or the Human Resource Ministry, not by political parties.  

Azis, who is also deputy home minister, said there was nothing wrong in the youth wing to hold its own programmes as was done previously by youth movements of BN parties.

“Why is Bersih only complaining about it now? How come there was no problem when the BN or Umno Youth held their job fairs?

“This is Warisan’s youth programme and aligned with the government’s aspiration to provide more jobs to Sabahans.

“There are private parties who want to work with us on this matter and we welcome them. We are doing this voluntarily, we don’t get money from all of this, because we are doing it for Sabahans,” said Azis during the soft launch of the Sabah Job and Entrepreneur Fair in Kota Kinabalu today.

Azis earlier noted that more than 5,000 jobs will be made available during the two-day fair on November 24-25, citing the event will coincide with the Universiti Malaysia Sabah convocation.

“Some 20% of the jobs will come from companies based in the peninsula,” said Azis, adding that a new job-hunting portal will be launched to assist job-seekers in the state.

The unemployment rate in Sabah is the highest in the country at 5%, or more than 20,000 persons state-wide. – October 5, 2018.