"In 1975, Jabu promised to build a road to Ulu Spak and Ulu Padeh after winning the election. The roads never came. Today, the areas have remained poor and neglected,” said Embat.
Amidst such abject poverty in Layar, there is a sparkling new RM300 million Resident’s and Distict office in the constitutency.
We ask: ""Why didn't use the RM300 million to bring development into Layar???""
Layar is still in the grip of abject poverty although it is under the care of its assemblyman and Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Numpang.
KUCHING: The Layar constituency in Betong still remains among the most neglected sites in Sarawak despite having a deputy chief minister as its assemblyman.The majority of the longhouses in the constituency are without water, electricty and roads.
It will take at least a three-hour to four-day walk to reach Layar.
Said Stanley Embat, a potential Sarawak PKR candidate: “Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Numpang, who is also the State Regional Development Minister, has failed to do his duties in his constituency.”
Embat has visited 70 of the 82 longhouses in the counstituency and is appalled that despite having held the Layar constituency for 36 years, Jabu has not managed to secure “clean water supply, electricty and roads” for his people.
