15,390 peninsula civil servants working in Sabah

As many as 15,390 public service officers and staff from peninsular Malaysia are currently working in 94 federal departments and 42 statutory bodies in the state.

Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department, Radin Malleh said the department with the biggest number of these individuals was the Sabah Education Department, with 8,152 last year.

Radin said on average, 7,500 to 8,500 civil servants from the peninsula were sent to Sabah each year for the last five years.

“The total number of officers and staff in Sabah is 85,498, of whom 82 percent are Sabahans,” he said in reply to a question from Abd Muis Picho (BN-Sebatik) at the state assembly sitting in Kota Kinabalu today.

State Minister for Community Development and Consumer Affairs Azizah Mohd Dun, in reply to a question from Louis Rampas (BN-Kiulu) on street children in Sabah, said that based on statistics from 2007 till May 2012, 1,392 such children were saved and 1,327 released during that period.

Azizah said 65 children were still in the Ehsan Home, Kota Kinabalu under the care of officials from the Sabah/Labuan Special Task Force.  

- Bernama