KOTA KINABALU, April 22 -- Parti Warisan has denied responsibility for the delay of the Pan Borneo Highway in Sabah, as claimed by the current state government.

Quoting an audit report from 2019, Warisan president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said that it was a federal government decision to terminate the project delivery partner (PDP) contract due to high costs.

"It was the federal government that decided that the best move was to terminate the agreement between the federal government and the PDP. It was not the state government.

"The finance minister then said that the fees of 5.5 per cent out of RM12 billion, which was almost RM700 million, was to be paid to the PDP," he said.

Shafie, who was Sabah chief minister from May 2018 to S...