In
the past four decades, the population of Sabah has increased by almost
five folds (from 650,000 in 1970 to 3.12 million in 2010), much of it
consists of illegal immigrants or their descendants.
Such
population implosion has not only created unbearable strain on Sabah's
social and economic fabric, but it has also stripped original Sahahans
of their sovereignty, in that a large chunk of its present electorate
are made up of these illegal immigrants who have been illicitly granted
voting rights through a massive clandestine operation known as ‘Project
M' (M stands for Mahathir).
In a rare display of judicial independence under former prime minister Dr Mahathir, Justice Muhammad Kamil Awang's judgment (HERE) annulled the Likas election in Sabah in June 2001. Muhammad in his judgment chronicled details of amassive illicit campaign to convert illegal immigrants into voters through the unlawful issue of blue ICs and the unlawful registration of these IC holders into the electoral rolls.
“I
tell you, it has come to stage when these PTIs (‘pendatang tanpa izin’
or illegal immigrants) dare to speak out. I hear it every day from the
people. When they fight for a place to sell vegetables at the markets,
our locals are driven out. Yesterday when our locals fought back and
said, ‘this is our country’, these foreigners retaliated and said, ‘No,
we will be taking over your state very soon’," said Wilfred Bumburing.
"When
our officers reprimand them at government departments, they retort,
‘don’t you be so conceited. Our people will be in your seats soon’.
These illegals are costing us our resources, causing health, social
problems, they bring drugs and they bring disease to Sabah. But the most
important thing is that our sovereignty has been breached and the
government has not done anything."
Prime
Minister Najib Abdul Razak announced yesterday that the Royal
Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the illegal immigrant problem in Sabah
will be headed by former chief judge of Sabah and Sarawak Steve Shim.
The
other commission members are former Universiti Malaysia Sabah
vice-chancellor Kamaruzaman Ampon, former Sabah attorney-general Herman
Luping, former Sabah state secretary KY Mustafa and former Kuala Lumpur
police chief Hendry Chin.
Former
prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the RCI would serve no
purpose and would harm the BN no matter what the the commission's
findings were.
“If
the findings fall in favour of the government, the opposition will say
it’s manipulated and if it is against, the government will get it in the
neck,” he said. At least he is aware of THAT part of the anatomy at “stake”!
The
RCI announced today will be tasked to investigate the number of
foreigners granted citizenship in the East Malaysian state and whether
this had been done in accordance with the law. Eight TERMS OF FERERENCE
were spelled out.HERE
WHY
PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE. THE RCI SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DETERMINE IF
THE FRAUDALENT GRANTING OF IC TO ILLEGAL IMMAGRANTS IS A TREASONOUS ACT. ONCE THIS IS ESTABLISHED THE OTHER PIECES WOULD INVARIABLY FALL INTO PLACE.
Maybe some legal eagles could enlighten us on this pressing dilemma
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