KUANTAN: A Barisan Nasional assemblyman has urged the state government to claim royalty from the Federal Government, claiming that oil extracted off Terengganu could also come from zones within Pahang.
Datuk Abdul Rahman Mohamad (BN-Padang Tengku), while debating the Pahang Government’s 2010 Budget yesterday, said a consulting firm should be appointed to study the matter to boost state revenue, which had suffered budget deficits for 12 consecutive years.
“Terengganu is given oil royalty, Kelantan gets compassionate payment but why isn’t Pahang given anything when it has the right (to receive royalty)?” he asked.
Meanwhile, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob said the first phase of the upgrading and expansion of Kuantan Port as a manufacturing and logistics centre in the the East Coast Economic Region (ECER) would start by end of next year.
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