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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Table Sabah RCI report on illegal immigrants by Monday, Bersih tells Putrajaya

Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah says there must not be anymore delay in making public the report on illegal immigrants in Sabah. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, November 20, 2014.Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah says there must not be anymore delay in making public the report on illegal immigrants in Sabah. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, November 20, 2014.
Angry over repeated delays in making public an inquiry report on illegal immigrants in Sabah, Bersih 2.0 is giving Putrajaya an ultimatum to table the report by Monday, failing which they will seek a meeting with the prime minister.
The electoral reform group wants the Sabah Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Illegal Immigrants to be tabled in Parliament, and for the prime minister to explain why lawmakers are not being allowed to debate and discuss it.
Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah said prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has the moral obligation to make the report public.
The Likas petition refers to a High Court case where a Filipino named Fuad Ari from Tawi-Tawi island had testified that he had obtained his identification card under a scheme known as "Projek IC".
Maria said the report should be tabled, even if it meant extending the current Parliament sitting which is due to end on November 27.
Najib was reported saying earlier this week that the RCI report would be made public only in December but Bersih wants it to be released in Parliament where MPs can debate it.
"We are not convinced by the prime minister's last-minute attempted assurance that the report will be made public next month. For one, there is scant detail about how it will be done, which leads us to see it as a red herring to subvert pressure on the original assurance," Maria said today.
The report should be debated in Parliament, she added, because it "pertains to the very question of which party is truly the people's choice to be government".
The RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah was held last year to probe claims that migrants were being given citizenship in exchange for votes for Barisan Nasional, the ruling party. Its report was submitted to the King and Najib about six months ago.
Some 200 witnesses were called to testify, including former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who was said to be behind "Projek IC".
Some government officers have been detained under the now-repealed Internal Security Act for their alleged role in issuing Malaysian identity cards to illegal immigrants, but Bersih said that the former detention-without-trial law was being used to "purposely prevent the truth from being revealed in open court".
"Projek IC" has also been blamed as the reason for Sabah's rapid population boom in a matter of years, a sore point with many locals and opposition political parties there.
Bersih said the wrongs committed to the people of Sabah must be corrected, beginning with making the RCI report public.
The electoral reform group also wants the government to revamp the Sabah electoral roll, including deregistering those who obtained identity cards unlawfully.
It also wants Sabah exempted from the Election Commission's impending redelineation exercise on electoral boundaries, and from any increase in the number of constituencies which would worsen electoral fraud.
- TMI

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