JABATAN dan agensi keselamatan diminta memperhebatkan pengawasan dan penguatkuasaan di perairan Tawau berikutan kegiatan pemerdagangan manusia dan penyeludupan semakin berleluasa di daerah pantai timur Sabah itu.
Datuk Hamisa Samat (BN-Tanjung Batu) berkata Tawau mendapat ranking teratas kemasukan pendatang asing tanpa izin melalui Tarakan, Indonesia dan perairan timur Sabah yang dikhuatiri menggalakkan kegiatan pemerdagangan manusia dan penyeludupan.
"Kebanyakan yang menjadi mangsa adalah gadis dan wanita di mana golongan ini terdedah kepada eksploitasi seksual dan buruh paksa.
"Begitu juga dengan kegiatan penyeludupan. Negara kerugian berpuluh-puluh juta Ringgit setahun berikutan penyeludupan keluar barang-barang subsidi seperti minyak masak, petrol, diesel, gas memasak, gula, tepung dan beras," katanya ketika membahas ucapan dasar kerajaan pada Persidangan Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah di Kota Kinabalu, kelmarin.
Hamisa berkata jabatan dan agensi berkaitan, termasuk angkatan tentera, harus mengadakan pengawasan dan penguatkuasaan secara bersepadu dan berterusan sebelum kegiatan berkenaan menyumbang kepada isu negatif lain seperti jenayah penipuan, pemerasan, pelacuran, rasuah, anak luar nikah, buang bayi dan pembunuhan. (BERNAMA)
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ReplyDeleteSabah mempunyai garis pantai yang panjang dan luas serta dikelilingi oleh ribuan pulau2 kecil.. faktor inilah yang menggalakkan kemasukan PATI dan barang2 seludup ke negeri ini.. oleh itu kawalan sempadan atau penguatkuasaan perairan perlu meliputi seluruh perairan Sabah, bukan hanya di Tawau..
ReplyDeleteSekiranya pihak berkuasa memahami struktur perairan Sabah jadi mereka harus la lebih arif di mna yang harus diperketatkan kawalan.
DeletePengawasan dan penguatkuasaan oleh pihak2 yang terlibat biarlah dapat dilakukan dengan penuh tanggungjawab dan amanah. Jangan pula wujud kes2 rasuah atau sebagainya.
ReplyDeletePerairan Sabah harus lebih diperketatkan. segala penyeledupan harus dikesan dan ditangkap orang2 yang melakukannya.
ReplyDeletekawalan diperairan perlu diperketatkan bagi memastikan ia tidak dicerobohi.
ReplyDeletePengawalan perairan sememangnya perlu diberikan tumpuan bagi memastikan masalah pemerdagangan orang dapat ditangani. Pada masa yang sama juga masalah penyeludupan dapat ditangani.
ReplyDeleteThe Tawau Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) is doing the best of their ability to execute the task of defending the security of the maritime area of Tawau. In January this year, they have detained 50 illegal immigrants and seized controlled items in an operation at Pulau Larapan, Semporna.
ReplyDeleteA Tawau MMEA spokesman said in a statement that all the illegal immigrants were arrested following an inspection on a Kumpit boat believed to be heading to a neighbouring country.
ReplyDeleteWhen the inspection was carried out, the boat was believed to be on its way to the Philippines and carried 47 passengers and three crew members who were suspected of not having valid travel documents as well as a Malaysian boat owner who just showed his driving licence as official document.
ReplyDeleteThe inspection revealed that the Kumpit boat was not gazetted as a passenger boat as required under the laws of the Sabah Ports and Harbour Department (JPDS).
ReplyDeleteFurther checking on the boat also led to the discovery of 30 barrels of diesel, each containing 30 litres of the fuel to be smuggled out of the country. The skipper and crew members as well as all the passengers were detained for suspected misuse of the licence, violation of the Immigration Act 1956/63 and the Control of Supplies Act 1961.
ReplyDeleteAnother seperate event on that same month, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) personnel foiled attempts by 23 Filipinos to enter the country illegally through Semporna waters.
ReplyDeleteThe arrests were made during a patrol that stopped a boat 0.5 nautical miles north east off Semporna.
ReplyDeleteHe said it is believed that the boat from Pulau Setangkai in the Philippines was on the way to Semporna waters when the MMEA vessel spotted them.
ReplyDeleteUpon inspection, 18 passengers, four crew members and the boat skipper were suspected to have no valid travel documents. All the detainees aged between one and 65 including women were brought to here to be investigated under the Immigration Act 1959/63.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the Lahad Datu Immigration Enforcement Unit detained 71 foreigners during the Ops 5P at three squatter colonies in the district..
ReplyDeleteState Immigration Director, Haji Mohammad Mentek said a total of 111 people were screened during the operation at Kampung Pokok Mangga, Kampung Jawa and Kampung Asam.
ReplyDeleteFollowing the inspection, 71 people believed to be from the Philippines, 26 males and 28 females as well as 17 children, aged between three and 75 were detained after they were found without valid travel documents.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Mohammad, the detainees have been sent to the Temporary Detention Centre in Tawau.
ReplyDeleteThe operation with nine officers led by Immigration Deputy Assistant Director Mohd Ajman Ajmain from the Lahad Datu Immigration Enforcement Unit also involved 43 personnel from the Lahad Datu Civil Defence Department.
ReplyDeleteIn April this year, The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) thwarted attempt to smuggle 90 pieces of sawn timber into the country.
ReplyDeleteTawau MMEA enforcement chief, maritime commander Amran Daud said the timber was seized from two "jongkong" boats moored at the port of Tawau.
ReplyDeleteChecks showed that both the boats were from Kalimantan, Indonesia. The sawn timber was being unloaded in ungazetted area.
ReplyDeleteThe total value of items seized in the operation, including the two boats, was about RM320,000.
ReplyDeleteThe skippers of the boat and six of their crewmen, all Indonesian nationals, had been detained after failing to show travel documents.
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