KUCHING, Sept. 18 -- The ruling Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) should explain why it is banning community leaders and headmen from attending official functions of federal ministers in Sarawak, state PKR vice chairman Voon Shiak Ni said today.

She said the GPS ministers have been silent on the ban since it was imposed last year.

"They ought to be reminded that the directive is actually dividing and depriving the people from receiving information on all the federal government initiatives and policies," Voon said.

"Further, they also need to explain why the longhouse chiefs who were duly elected by their followers, but were rejected by the GPS state lawmakers, who then appointed their own supporters to lead the longhouses," she said.

Voon ...