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Friday, December 5, 2014

Sabah leader slams RCI findings as mere political gimmick

State opposition politician Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan called the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the illegal immigrants in Sabah a ‘manipulated cover-up’. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 5, 2014.State opposition politician Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan called the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the illegal immigrants in Sabah a ‘manipulated cover-up’. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 5, 2014.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry on the illegal immigrants in Sabah was no more than a political gimmick to hoodwink state voters into rooting for Barisan Nasional in the last general election, a state opposition politician said today.
Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, who is chairman of Star Sabah, expressed his disappointment in the findings of the RCI, calling it an "insincere" attempt by the ruling coalition to "save its face" and to pacify angry Sabahans over the matter of illegals.
"It is now clear that the RCI was a manipulated cover-up to absolve the federal government, its leaders and the political party referred to in the RCI from Project IC," Kitingan said in a statement.
"The insincerity of the federal government was clear from the outset with the formation of the RCI and the delay in setting out the terms of reference (TOR)."
The RCI was formed on August 11, 2012, nine months before the May 2013 election.
Kitingan said that the RCI's finding that no government and political parties were involved in Project IC was "laughable", and chalked it up as a feeble attempt to absolve the BN federal government and its previous leaders of their hand in the matter.
"That opinion was totally unsupported by any evidence and runs contrary to tonnes of evidence presented. It is unbelievable that a syndicate aided by corrupt officials could have gotten away with such treacherous, treasonous and traitorous issuance of ICs," he said.
"There was also evidence of illegals being entered into the electoral rolls and of the giving of actual voters data to enable foreigners to vote. The alleged corrupt officials at ND (National Registration Department) were not also Election Commission officials and this was not considered when the RCI opined that the government was not implicated."
Besides that, said Kitingan, only one out of the eight TORs required the RCI to recommend any amendments or change to standard operating procedures in relation to the issuing of identity cards (ICs) to immigrants in Sabah.
"If it was so empowered, the RCI would have had to make much wider and more comprehensive recommendations than the setting up of a permanent secretariat to study the findings of the RCI."
But despite its limited scope, Kitingan said that the RCI made two substantive and "damning" findings: that there were at least 67,675 ICs issued to illegal immigrants and that there was an undetermined number of illegal immigrants in the electoral rolls.
"Of course, the numbers cannot be ascertained by the RCI as there was a lack of effort and political will to present all evidence before the RCI.
"In reality, the number is at least 1.5 to 1.7 million ICs dubiously issued based on the population census in 2010," Kitingan said, adding that based on electoral rolls, there were at least 250,000 to 300,000 dubious voters out of a total of 982,337 registered voters in Sabah.
He said other than the two findings, which were already public knowledge in the state, no one in Sabah actually believed the findings in the report.
"And now, Sabahans everywhere are even angrier against the federal government for the cover-up.
"The lame excuse that the RCI was not empowered under the TOR to go after the culprits responsible for the issuance of fake or dubious ICs and MyKads in Sabah only goes to clear wrongdoers of illegal issuance of ICs and entry of phantom voters, which are in the minds of Sabahans," he added.
- TMI

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