KOTA KINABALU: The "political prostitution" in Sabah has caused unnecessary bleeding of taxpayers money, said former chief minister Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat.
He said the political "entertainment" over the past two years had inflicted serious financial implications to Sabah.
"Sabahans are now made to fork out millions of ringgit to pay for the pensions of all 65 honorable members of the Sabah State Assembly just by the stroke of a pen from the chief minister requesting the State Governor to dissolve the Sabah State Assembly after just a mere two years plus in power.
"Awarding all the political frogs with pensions for a mere two years and two months of public service? Is this fair to our government servants having to sweat out at least 10 years to qualify for their pensions," he said, adding people of Sabah have to bear the pensions of the political frogs.
The LDP honorary life president, who is returning to contest in the state polls, also questioned Caretaker Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal over serious financial implications from dissolving the state assembly amid Covid-19 pandemic.
Chong, who had been in both the state and federal government administrations, said Mohd Shafie could have met the defectors instead of being hasty in paving way for snap polls.
On the political scenario, he said the fixation over prime minister's position in the then Pakatan Harapan government had led to the consequences of today's politics in Sabah.
"I decided to come back to take part in this upcoming Sabah state elections because I am disgusted with this latest shameless party hopping committed by so many of the so-called 'honorable' Sabah State Legislative Assembly, many of whom are highly educated.
"Sabahans have every right to get angry with all those disgraceful 'party hoppers", the political frogs.
"But I believe we should not only condemn all these latest political frogs for betraying their respective political parties on which they won their election."
He said parties that accepted them, which he described as frog collectors, were also to blame for giving a bad name to Sabah.