SHOOTING
....Was Sabah DAP shooting blanks when it asked why Former Chief Minister Yong
Teck Lee was silent over RCI revelations?
By : FMT STAFF
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah
Progressive People’s Party (SAPP) has been a constant 'thorn in the flesh' of
Sabah Barisan Nasional since 1999 because of its demand that the influx of
illegal immigrants in Sabah be investigated.
SAPP Youth said it was
because of the party’s persistent demand for a Royal Commission of Inquiry
(RCI) into the illegal immigrants that ties between the party and BN’s “top
leadership” was strained.
SAPP was part of the BN coalition
until it pulled out in 2008 after winning four seats.
Chiding state DAP Assistant
Secretary, Junz Wong’s ignorance, SAPP Youth Kota Kinabalu zone chief John
Stephen Dionysius said: “SAPP has been consistent in demanding for an answer to
the threat posed by illegal immigrants.
“Even before SAPP’s pullout
from BN during the tenure of former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, SAPP
was relentlessly demanding the government to take action on the massive influx
of illegal immigrants into Sabah.
“A 14-point proposals and
ideas contained in the memorandum ‘Time for direct preventive actions” was
submitted to the then prime minister in 2006 but no action was taken.
“In fact, earlier on in
1999, SAPP had already submitted a memorandum titled ‘Illegal Immigrants:
Mother of All Threats’ and in this we included the additional 14-point
memorandum.”
He also pointed out that in
2011, SAPP Youth had initiated a statewide campaign to collect 100,000
signatures calling for the RCI on illegals immigrants to be set up.
The petition was later
submitted to the State Legislative Assembly by SAPP Youth chief Edward Dagul
and MPs for Tawau (Chua Soon Bui) and Sepanggar (Eric Majimbun).
RCI Testimonies
Incriminating
Dionysius was responding to
Wong’s attack on SAPP that the party had “no moral authority” to talk about
illegal immigrant issue.
Wong today questioned SAPP
and its president Yong Teck Lee’s silence over the disclosures at the ongoing
Sabah RCI.
“Why have they been keeping
very quiet on recent shocking findings exposed by the RCI hearings?
“If SAPP had sincerely
wanted to solve the illegal immigrant issue, SAPP should have stopped the
problem from deteriorating with a sense of urgency then,” he said, alluding to
the fact that its president was once a chief minister.
The testimonies by former
National Registration Department (NRD) officers, illegals and immigrants on the
secretive and clandestine manner by which the citizenship-for-votes scam, under
the premiership of then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, was carried out
have shocked Malaysians and Sabahans in particular.
Based on these testimonies,
it was learnt that the once Christian-majority Borneon state was “nuetralised”
by an ambitious plan that gave away citizenships to Muslim immigrants and
illegals to ensure that Umno and BN stay in power.
The revelations have sent
shivers across the political divide because many of those involved in this
conspiracy “at the highest levels” of federal and state authorities are alive
and still politicking.
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