In line with its no confidence move against on Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has also issued an 8-point demand to the Federal government, one of which is for the return of Labuan to Sabah.

"The party's mission to come up with the declarations is to establish a trustworthy government, a progressive, just and harmonious society," said SAPP’s president Yong, Teck Lee, after the party’s emergency supreme council meeting in Kota Kinabalu yesterday which confirmed its no confidence move.

The declarations endorsed by the supreme council are:

1. That the government shall be of the people-based on good governance and civil society and non-racial politics based on a progressive, just and harmonious society;
2. That Sabah shall have political autonomy whereby the government shall be formed and run by the people of Sabah;
3. That Sabah and other oil-producing states shall be entitled to a 20% petroleum royalty;
4. That the Labuan Federal Territory be returned to Sabah and be governed as a special region;
5. That unfair and imprudent federal laws extended to Sabah and federal departments which are to the detriment of the state be reviewed;
6. That Sabah shall be given fair and just participation in the federal administration, the civil service and private sector, and that the federal department in Sabah shall as far as possible be headed by local Malaysians;
7. That the federal and state governments shall put in sufficient resources, potential will and leadership in solving the illegal immigrants' problem in a firm but humane way, with emphasis on regonal concepts and smart partnerships;
8. That the federal and state governments shall together work on redressing in-built structural imbalances in the economic and social structure of the country affecting Sabah and other states.

Yong said the declarations would be tabled by the party at a Convention next month. (MySinchew)