We in Batang Ai have lost a great leader, being met with him personally. Humble and down to earth type of YB and he is so friendly whenever approached. We will be missing you a lot.
May He Rest In Peace, Amen.
Taken from Bernama:
Batang Ai State Assemblyman Dies
KUCHING, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) vice-president Datuk Dublin Unting Ingkot passed away at the Normah Medical Specialist Centre here at about 1.25am today after suffering from a stroke.
Unting, 55, who was the Batang Ai assemblyman and sports and agriculture assistant minister, is survived by wife, Datin Froline Moriah Demies Impoi, two sons and a daughter. He had been hospitalised for the past nine months after falling into a coma following a massive stroke in May last year while being interviewed by a Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) radio channel in his capacity as the Chef de Mission for the Sarawak contingent to the Malaysian Games (Sukma).
PRS secretary-general Wilfred Nissom, who confirmed Unting's death, told Bernama that he paid him a visit last night when it was learnt that his condition had turned for the worst.
His remains will be bought back to his residence at Jalan Kampung Stutong here later today.
In the last state election held in May 2006, Unting won the predominantly Iban seat after defeating Nicholas Bawin Anggat of the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) with a 806-vote majority.
He first won the Batang Ai seat in 1991 under the Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) ticket, which was then an opposition at the state level in a straight fight with Mikai Mandau from the Barisan Nasional (BN).
In the subsequent state elections held in 1996 and 2001, he retained the seat on BN-PBDS ticket and later joined PRS following PBDS deregistration due to an internal leadership crisis in 2004.
Meanwhile PRS president Datuk Seri Dr James Masing said Unting was a dedicated assemblyman who was committed to improving the socio-economic standard of his constituency and the state as a whole.
"He is a person who does not hold any grudges or ill feeling against anybody as far as I know," he told Bernama.
"On behalf of the party I offer my condolences to his family. His dedicated services to the party, constituency and state will be forever remembered," he added.
-- BERNAMA
