Appointments of Mayor, Councillors

The Minister of Local government announced the list of Mayor/Chairman and Deputy Mayor/Chairman of the 24 councils all over Sarawak.

The most major change is the Mayor of Miri, Yii Siew Sang who is the Pujut Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP), Chairman.

While Sibu Municipal Chairman, Dato Tiong Thai King and Padawan Chairman, Lo Khere Chiang were retained, both their deputy chairmen were changed. SMC deputy, Andrew Wong who was supported by United People’s Party (UPP) to be the Chairman did not make it.

The new deputy for Padawan Municipal council is Dato’ Ahmad Dato’ Sri Haji Ibrahim and SMC Rogayah BT Jamian.

Dr. Sim said all the councillors name will be faxed to the respective councils. He added that the Cabinet committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Amar Douglas Ungah had taken all angles into consideration before finalising over 700 councillors names. 66% of them are new faces.

“I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the new councillors (including those who are reappointed) and sincerely thank all those councillors whose term finished on 30 June, for their service to their respective council and community over the last 36 months.

Cabinet Ministers  annd assistant ministers will be progressively install the new councillors over the next few weeks. The City of Miri will have the swearin in on 21 July.

During the installation of the new councillors as well as council officers, they will be given KPI so that their work performance can be assessed over the next 2 years”, he added.

The list of the Mayor/deputy and councillors in full

suppadmin | July 19, 2016