Act now to prevent Sabah floods becoming annual affair, urges MP

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Tawau MP Christina Liew has called on the Sabah government and relevant departments to seriously look into the issue of perennial floods plaguing residents of Beaufort.The PKR lawmaker said it's a decades-long problem that had jeopardised the people's livelihood and disrupted economic activities as well as businesses in the area. "Please do something to mitigate the situation before the next deluge hits the district. "Flash floods have become a recurring problem and have been incurring huge losses in Beaufort for generations dating back to the seventies," she said in a statement today. Liew also called on the state government to expedite the implementation of the proposal to deepen the Padas River.In January, it was reported that the government was considering a proposal to deepen and straighten the Padas River through sand dredging as a measure to overc…