Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud, a former governor of Sarawak, has passed away.
His daughter Datuk Hanifah Taib said in a Facebook post that the 87-year-old passed away on Wednesday, February 21, at 4.40 a.m. in a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur.
She stated that his remains would be transferred back to Kuching after being interred in the National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur.
Abdul Taib Mahmud’s cause of death
Abdul’s daughter never talked about the precise cause of his demise following the announcement of his death
Abdul Taib Mahmud’s obituary information
On May 21, 1936, Abdul Taib was born in Miri, Sarawak.
He received a Colombo Plan scholarship in 1956 to study law at the University of Adelaide in Australia after finishing his secondary education.
Abdul Taib, who was sworn in as the youngest state minister at the age of 27, was the only member of the first post-independence state cabinet to survive, having been created in 1963.
Before being named Sarawak’s fourth Chief Minister on March 26, 1981, he previously held several positions as a federal minister for 13 years.
Many people refer to Abdul Taib as the founder of contemporary Sarawak.
From 1981 until 2014, he was Sarawak’s longest-serving chief minister. He dubbed this process of “politics of development” which helped Sarawak become a modern economy.
