Madius Tangau
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Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Madius Tangau MP |
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| Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Malaysia | |
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Assumed office 29 July 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Najib Razak |
| Deputy | Dr. Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah |
| Preceded by | Dr. Ewon Ebin |
| Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Tuaran |
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Assumed office 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing |
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Wilfred Madius Tangau 13 March 1958 Kiulu, Tuaran, Crown Colony of North Borneo |
| Citizenship | Malaysia |
| Political party | UPKO |
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Barisan Nasional |
| Spouse(s) | Datin Seri Panglima Dr. Jaina Sintian |
| Website | wilfredmadiustangau.com |
Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Madius Tangau (born 13 March 1958) is a Malaysian Member of Parliament. He is currently serving as the federal Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (2015 – present) and the Member of Parliament for Tuaran, Sabah, (1999 – 2008; 2013–present). He is the acting president of United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO), a component party in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
Tangau was born in 1958 in Kampung Lokos, Kiulu, Tuaran, Sabah, into a Kadazandusun family where his parents were cultivators of hill paddy. He is the fourth child of 14 siblings. Upon completing his primary school education at SRK Lokos, Kiulu in 1970, he was determined to continue his education despite initial objections from his parents due to financial constraints.
With his own savings, he enrolled in SMK Kiulu for Bridge Class to Form Two. To support himself in school, he took up a manual job as a rubber tapper on weekends. He was also employed by a Chinese “towkay”, a term for business owners, in Kiulu town, which at that time only had a row of shops. He then could save on food and rental.
He often speaks of his childhood fondly.
“At the age of just 13, students from my village Lokos would walk to our secondary school in Kiulu every two weeks or so. We would depart at 6am from my village and arrive at our school at 6pm, carrying food supplies, mainly rice. As a young undergraduate from UPM, I would walk for four hours from Nabalu town to Lokos. Generally the people from my village are from poor families without a regular source of income as they survived on subsistence farming.”
At the end of Form Two he was awarded a Boarding Scholarship from the Sabah State Government to further his studies in SMK Ranau in Form Three in 1974. With the good results he obtained in the Lower Certificate of Education (LCE) he was granted a Sabah State Government Scholarship to pursue Form Four at Setapak High School, Selangor, the year after.
Inspired by fellow schoolmates in this school, he initiated a student society in his village called KEPALOS, which formed student study groups and fundraised to finance their programmes.
In 1976 Tangau passed his Malaysian Certificate of Education (MCE) with Grade One. With this he earned the same scholarship to do his Form Six at Sekolah Menengah Sains Selangor (SMSS) Cheras, a governmental fully residential school. At SMSSah, he was an active student leader and a debater for his school.
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