Poor infrastructure in rural Sabah has come under the spotlight again as a video clip of a group of students in Keningau endangering themselves by crossing a river using a pipeline went viral.

Posted by a Facebook user Siti Hafizah Leezah, she stated in a separate post that the village was promised a new bridge, to be built by April.

“Flovia Ng (state assemblyperson for Tulid) had visited the location and promised...