Kuala Lampur, Jan. 4 -- I will not be doing justice to the topic of Sabah's 40 per cent revenue entitlement if I were to leave it at my last week's article. So much has been spoken and written about this constitutional issue in the past one decade, yet it still remained the hottest subject raised in the most crowded Sabah State Elections concluded recently, continued to be harnessed by political parties, national and local parties alike, in seeking for voters' support.

For many years, this fiscal quagmire has put the Federal and Sabah Governments between a rock and a hard place. As the saying goes, one man's meat is another man's poison, while it is challenging for the Madani Government to honour its constitutional duty owed to Sabah and...