A
foreigner in possession of a dubious IC was asked by a magistrate in
Kota Kinabalu in September 1992 how he had obtained the document.
His answer was: “From a project called Project President Mahathir”.
The
foreigner was jailed for two years but upon his release, was not
repatriated. Instead, he managed to get registered on the Sabah
electoral roll, where his name remains up to now.
Next,
in 1998, there was a public hearing to decide if would-be new voters in
the Likas constituency should be accepted if there were objections to
their registration.
The
Election Commission’s registering officer asked how they had obtained
their ICs - the answer was “from Project Mahathir”. The registering
officer testified to this during the hearing of the 1999 Likas election
petition.
Can
Sabah repatriate these manufactured citizens now. Yes. They can invoke
the Inter-Governmental Committee Report, Chapter III, paragraph 16,
sub-paragraphs (f) (ii) and (iii) to ‘expel these new citizens to the
peninsula.
After
all, this was what it did to activist Harris Ibrahim few months ago,
when he was refused entry to Sabah allegedly on security grounds.
Dr Chong Eng Leongs article HERE
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