by : Raymond Tombung
KOTA KINABALU: The
government must act and enforce the laws on acts of treasons going in the
country, says the Borneo Plight in Malaysia Foundation (BOPIM).
The President of the
UK-based BOPIM, Daniel John Jambun, said in a statement here that acts of
treason which have been exposed to the local and international public have
brought shame on the government of Malaysia which is now seen as compromising
on its own laws.
"The latest to surface
on this is the revelation by former Sabah Immigration Department deputy
director Ismail Ahmad who told the on-going RCI hearing that politicians had
attempted to interfere in the agency’s enforcement work against illegal immigrants,"
Jambun said. "But what is most shocking is that there is no hue and cry
from the Sabahan leaders in the Barisan Nasional.
"We all know by now
that this admittance by a senior government servant is only the tip of an
iceberg submerged in a sea of corruption and injustice. What we have heard from
the RCI hearing are a lot of shocking revelation of outright treasonous acts by
officials in the National Registration Department (NRD), the Immigration
Department, among the nation's top leaders, and even the police," he
added.
He said the revelation by
Ismail Ahmad is a clear indication that our country is ruled by corrupted
politicians who don't give a hoot about the laws which they themselves passed
in parliament. Political leaders don't have the slightest qualms about
committing treason against the Yang DiPertuan Agong for their self-interests.
In his testimony before the RCI panel last week, Ismail said that state
assemblypersons.
Had asked the Immigration
Department not to act against people deemed to be aligned to them by saying,
"These are our people don't disturb them." Due to such incidences,
Ismail, who led a lab in 2010 on how to resolve the flood of foreigners in
Sabah, had proposed that a letter be issued to all state assemblypersons warning
them against interfering in the enforcement activities of the relevant
authorities. Furthermore, a proposal was also made to order all local
authorities to assist and cooperate with the Immigration Department in
enforcement operations against illegal immigrants.
"What is important now
is to launch comprehensive nationwide investigations on acts of treason
beginning with the infamous Project IC and down the ranks to the officials in
the NRD and Immigration Department," Jambun said. "Unfortunately the
sense of accountability and responsibility among government servants have
deteriorated so much that they too have no sense of guilt in bending the laws
themselves, because they know their own leaders are corrupted.
"A perfect example of
this bending of the law happened last week when an Indonesian was found to be
holding a fake IC. Instead of being bound to jail, this Indonesian as given the
luxury of being escorted by the authorities to the Indonesian Consulate to get
an Indonesian passport! This is ridiculous. Why wasn't the woman held for
holding a fake IC instead? This simply went to show how our government
officials have been indoctrinated by our corrupt leaders to simply sidestep the
laws with impunity," Jambun said.
"It is again
regrettable that our leaders keep being quiet about all these. Upko, PBRS and
PBS leaders should have immediately denied they had anything to do with the
interference with the Immigration Department's action on illegals, and demanded
that the names of the YBs concerned be revealed for action based on national
security laws," he added. "Instead we had another case of paying dumb
and dumber.
"I would challenge the
BN and the Prime Minister to do the right thing and stop this rot in the
country's governance regarding national security, and not let the corruption
drag us further down the international transparency index. Treason is a heinous
crime and those who commit it should be dealt with the severest measures
provided by law."
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