By Datuk Teddy Chin
SOON after BN’s defeat in 2018 and Tun Musa slowly bowing out from the political scene, he handed the Sabah Umno chairmanship to Hajiji, formerly the Treasurer.
But Hajiji did not stay long as Sabah Umno chief.
In December 2018 he announced that he and about a dozen Sabah Umno YBs were quitting to become Independent Assemblymen.
In January or February 2019 Bersatu led by then PM Tun Dr Mahathir accepted them into the party in KL.
In April 2019 Dr M together with Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (then Home Minister) flew into KK to officially launch the Sabah branch of Bersatu.
It was held at the ITCC during which Dr M announced Hajiji as the head...
By: Datuk Teddy Chin
AN illustrious son of Sabah, Datuk Seri Panglima Mohd Noor Hj Mansoor, passed away at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Kota Kinabalu on Tuesday morning. In accordance with Muslim tradition, he was buried the same afternoon not far from his house in Putatan.
Matnor (as he was popularly known) came from Kota Belud in the West Coast of Sabah.
The “Cowboy Town”, as its nickname suggests, is famous for its Bajau horsemen who were in demand even at national level celebrations in Kuala Lumpur.
Politically, Kota Belud has produced a Chief Minister in late 1975 in the person of the late Tun Said Keruak who later became a Governor (TYT).
Matnor’s father was a Bajau and...
