KOTA KINABALU: Angkatan
Perubahan Sabah (APS) Deputy President, Datuk Maijol Mahap has urged the police
to conduct a thorough investigation into the death of 15-year-old Norikoh
Saliwa whose body was found by the roadside in Kota Marudu early this week.
“I hope the police will make
a thorough investigation on the case and will not leave any stones unturned. We
want to know whether she was indeed raped and murdered. If she was, who did it?
“We in Kota Marudu want
justice and we want the culprit to be brought to justice. We know justice can’t
return the life of the girl, but at least the culprit is brought to justice and
be sentenced,” Maijol who is APS Kota Marudu chief, said.
Maijol added that he was
saddened to see the life of a young girl like Norikoh taken away, especially
when the manner on how she died was suspiciously tragic.
He said that since her death
was made known to the public, he had heard several versions on the
circumstances of her death.
Maijol added that he and APS
president Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred M Bumburing had visited the home of the
late Norikoh to pay their last respects to the young girl.
“I attended the funeral in
her family house in Kampung Bombong 1, Kota Marudu. I spoke to her elder sister
aged 25 years old and she related to me what had happened prior to Norikoh’s
body being found.
“According to the sister,
she and Norikoh together with their niece went to a Pakistani furniture shop in
Goshen New Township, Kota Marudu to ask if there was any job available for her
niece. Her niece was offered the job there and then with a salary of RM300 a
month.
“She claimed that while in
the shop, Norikoh bought a socket extension. But when they left the shop
leaving the niece there to start working, the victim realised upon reaching the
other side of Kota Marudu town that she forgot to take the socket extension
with her.
“So she called the Pakistani
shop owner about it. She got his hand phone number because while in the shop,
he gave her his number. The Pakistani man said there was no need to go back to
the shop as he would go out and meet her to give it, her sister said.
“When he came, the sister
claimed that she saw Norikoh approach the lorry and the next thing she knew was
that her sister went inside the vehicle and the Pakistani man drove away. She
said she waited at the shop and after some time, the Pakistani man came back
and asked her: ‘Where is your sister?’”
Maijol said the woman said
her reply to the man was “Why do you ask me like that, she went with you just
now,” to which the Pakistani man replied: “I don’t know,” and gave a wallet to
the sister saying that Norikoh had left it in the lorry.
However, she does not know
where the Pakistani man brought Norikoh. (BP)
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