KOTA KINABALU: The State
Reform Party (Star) has welcomed former Sabah Chief Minister Harris Salleh’s
statement in the local media on sat that the Police should bring to Court those
who lodge 'false' police reports on the issuance of MyKads and other Malaysian
personal documents and throw the book at them.
“The police should take
Harris’s statement seriously,” said Star Deputy Chairman Daniel John Jambun. “It’s a
bit of a mystery on why the Police continue to ignore reports on the alleged
issuance of Malaysian personal documents to illegal immigrants and other
foreigners.”
Daniel however begged to
differ with Harris on the alleged reports being false and that the police are
ignoring such reports because they were false.
He pointed out that the
Police are yet to announce any determination by them on whether such reports
were false or otherwise.
He attributed this to Bukit
Aman reportedly issuing directives to Sabah Police instructing it not to pursue
any police reports lodged on the phenomenon.
Such reports are also
routinely deleted from the computerized Police system, he alleged. “If
Mongolian model Altantuya’s entry into Malaysia can be deleted from the
Immigration system, as it emerged in Court, there’s no reasons why the Police
cannot delete all police reports lodged on the issuance of Malaysian personal
documents to illegal immigrants and other foreigners in Sabah.”
Similarly, claimed Daniel,
each time that illegal immigrants were rounded up by the authorities in Sabah,
“someone would produce a letter from someone high up in Government instructing
the authorities to release the illegal immigrants. The illegals just openly
laugh at us and mock us because they know someone desperately needs their
votes.”
“Harris seems to get all
worked up whenever illegal immigrants are mentioned in Sabah,” said Daniel.
“His standard response has been to deny that such a phenomenon exists and at
the same time to parrot that the Federal Government has a right to issue
Malaysian personal documents”.
No one denies the right of
the Federal Government to issue Malaysian personal documents, continued Daniel.
“It’s only the Federal Government which can have such a right.”
At the same time, belaboured
the Star deputy chairman, no one in his right mind will advocate that the Federal
Government has the right to issue Malaysian personal documents to any Tom, Dick
and Harry and in violation of the Federal Constitution, the relevant laws and
the rights of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia”.
“It’s a known fact that the
Federal Government has been acting above the law in issuing Malaysian personal
documents in Sabah. The evidence is all around us. Sabahans are not blind. They
can differentiate between locals and illegal immigrants,” said Daniel. “All
this is being done just to add phantom voters to the electoral rolls.”
Daniel fumed that even where
such personal documentation is not entered in the system at the Jabatan
Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) in Sabah, they are entered in Putrajaya, and where they
are not, they continue to exist on the Electoral Rolls.
Daniel commended JPN Sabah
for not getting involved in the issuance of Malaysian personal documents to
illegal immigrants and other foreigners in the state.
At the same time, he raised
the possibility of rogue elements among JPN Sabah out to make a quick buck by
peddling blank Malaysian personal documents to illegal immigrants and other
foreigners through so-called middlemen.
“The recent arrests in Sabah
point in this direction,” said Daniel. “Harris himself has touched on this as
if to make out that this was the entire problem.”
He however stressed that the
phenomenon of illegal immigrants and other foreigners possessing genuine
documents which they are not entitled to is further compounded by their details
being entered in the Electoral Rolls by the Election Commission (EC) “which
doesn’t ask any questions”.
The EC, alleged Daniel, was
deaf, dumb and blind when it came to the presence of illegal immigrants and
other foreigners on the electoral rolls. “They are also like the three monkeys
– see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” said Daniel. “All of them are like
the ostrich with the head buried in the sand.”
He said that three other
kinds of Malaysian personal documentation issued to illegal immigrants and
foreigners in Sabah were also all entered in the electoral rolls i.e. not
listed at JPN Sabah and therefore not eligible to travel outside the state,
listed at JPN Putrajaya only and eligible to travel within Malaysia, listed in
Putrajaya and issued with Malaysian passports.
“The cover-up on the
issuance of Malaysian personal documents to illegal immigrants and other
foreigners is taking place in Putrajaya,” said Daniel. “This is evident in all
the police reports lodged so far.”
Daniel reiterated that Bukit
Aman must allow Sabah Police to move on the police reports lodged in the state
on the issuance of Malaysian personal documents to illegal immigrants and other
foreigners in Sabah.
“This is all the more
important since there’s no sign of the proposed Royal Commission of Inquiry
(RCI) on the illegal immigrant phenomenon in Sabah,” he said. “The Police need
not wait for the RCI either.”
RCI perlu bagi selesaikan isu projek ic.
ReplyDeleteRCI perlu dilaksanakan dengan tegas
DeleteJPN perlu tegas dalam menyelesaikan masalah IC di M'sia
ReplyDeletePrime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will reveal details of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into Sabah’s illegal immigrant problem next Saturday, finally putting an end to nearly six months of uncertainty on the issue.
ReplyDeleteThe unchecked influx of illegal immigrants in Sabah has been a longstanding problem in the BN-ruled state, and frequently blamed for the rise in social, economic and security problems suffered by the locals here.
ReplyDeleteIsu Harris ini cerita lama. Tidak dapat apa-apa pun yang penting sekarang ini tubuhkan RCI untuk menyelesaikan masalah.
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