A social and human rights activist has proposed that a Parliament-level committee be set up to monitor aid distribution and allocations to ensure efforts to rehabilitate Covid-19-hit Sabah are effective.

Patrick Sindu, a former United Nations (UN) diplomat on Human Rights, Consumerism and Environment, said the committee should monitor the situation from a wider perspective, adding that the most crucial was to ensure that all assistance and allocations for Sabah were used in the best possible manner so as to have a positive impact on the people of the state, including those at the grassroots level...