KIMANIS: Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) candidate in the Kimanis parliamentary by-election, Datuk Karim Bujang, today denied an allegation that a diploma he obtained from a university in the United Kingdom was fake.
Karim said he was awarded the Higher National Diploma in Business Studies, which he said was equivalent to a degree level, after a two-year study, which was sponsored by the Sabah Economic Development Corporation (Sedco).
“I was given study leave with full-pay in 1977 and 1978 by Sedco. I got the diploma about 40 years ago,” he said when met at the Batu 6 district polling centre (PDM) near here today on a posting of the diploma, said to be fake, that was viraled on the social media.
In another development, Karim claimed that Barisan Nasional (BN) was deliberately making a political issue of the proposed implementation of the Sabah Temporary Pass (PSS) and used it as campaign material for the by-election, despite the idea coming from BN when it was the ruling party in the country. - Bernama
