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Monday, January 28, 2013

Eight important things about Project IC

Some call it Project IC, some call it Project M, whatever the name, here is what we have learnt from the royal commission of inquiry on immigrants in Sabah, in particular, the covert operations that allowed foreigners to vote in the bid to topple the PBS-led Sabah government.

1. There were at least two such black operations

G17 (or Group of 17)

Ring leader: Former Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) chief Abdul Rauf Sani (1990-1992)

Known figures involved: NRD officers Kee Dzulkifly Kee Abdul Jalil, Yakup Damsah, Asli Sidup

Political figures implicated: Then premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad's political secretary Aziz Shamsuddin

Time period: 1990 onwards

Modus operandi

Sabah NRD officers were flown to Sabah to process some 40,000 to 100,000 blue identity cards for immigrants. This was necessary as at that time, the identity cards' details and signature were done by hand.

After the details had been written on the cards as per the application forms furnished to the officers, they were dispatched to the then NRD headquarters in Petaling Jaya to be laminated before being returned to Kota Kinabalu.

The officers testified that they did not question the application forms or their origin, but merely filled them up for the blue identity cards as they were.

They claimed to have operated from Aziz Shamsudin's house in Kampung Pandan. Asli Sidup described being flown in to Kuala Lumpur for this as an "unusual practice".

Another officer, Kee Dzulkifly Kee Abdul Jalil - who had described the operation as 'G17' and locally based in the Sabah NRD headquarters in Kota Kinabalu - said they also issued some 200,000 birth certificates to immigrants.

This document is important for future application of blue identity cards. The operation was tagged G17 as it consisted of 17 members.

Head of operations Abdul Rauf Sani had confirmed the testimonies, but denied the use of the 'G17' name. He claimed to have acted alone.

All known personalities involved were eventually detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for at least two years.

The only exception was Abdul Rauf, who was detained under ISA for two months, followed by five months of restricted residence.

He is now the chief executive officer of the Totalisator Board of Malaysia under the Finance Ministry.

Ops Durian Buruk

Ring leader: Former Sabah NRD chief Ramli Kamarudin (1993-1995)

Known figures involved: Former Sabah NRD deputy chief Mohd Nasir Sugip, NRD officer Asli Sidup (also involved in G17), former Sabah Election Commission (EC) chief Wan Ahmad Wan Yusof

Political figures implicated: Former Sabah chief minister Osu Sukam, former deputy home minister Megat Junid Megat Ayub

Time period: Late 1993 onwards

Modus operandi

According to RCI testimonies, the Sabah EC furnished the state NRD with legitimate voter information, including names and identity card numbers of registered voters who had never voted before or are dead.

The NRD then issues an identity card receipt to immigrants using this information.

According to electoral rules, this receipt, an interim document given prior to the issuance of an actual blue identity card, is sufficient to allow a person to vote, and in this case, for immigrants to vote.

These ‘phantom voters' are then planted into marginal constituencies deemed as black zones for the BN, according to witness testimonies.

Chief of operations Ramli Kamarudin said he executed this project after personally receiving instructions at a meeting with former deputy home minister, the late Megat Junid Megat Ayub, at the Hyatt Hotel, Kota Kinabalu.

Also present at the meeting were NRD officer Asli Sidup and Osu Sukam, who went on to become Sabah chief minister in 1999.

2. Illegal granting of citizenship began as early as 1988

Even though two operations in the 1990s have been mentioned to have taken place during the course of the RCI hearing, witnesses who were beneficiaries of such citizenship-for-votes operations indicate that they began in the late 1980s.

One such case was that of Mohamed Hussein, a Pakistani citizen who arrived in Sabah in 1987 and offered a blue identity card the following year.

3. Highly motivated to vote

Almost all the immigrants-turned-citizens testified they registered as voters immediately after receiving their blue identity cards.

Puzzled at their unrivaled urge to vote even compared to natural citizens, civil society lawyers holding a watching brief at the RCI had grilled the witnesses, but all of them claim to have done so of their own volition.

They claimed to have personally gone to the state EC to register as voters.

4. National Security Council's fingerprints all over

The prime movers of at least two known operations, namely G17 and Ops Durian Buruk were formerly officers of the National Security Council (NSC) under the Prime Minister's Department.

Abdul Rauf Sani was transferred from the NSC in 1990 to helm Sabah NRD, the same time when G17 started.

In 1992, he returned to the NSC to work with its intelligence division.

Abdul Rauf's successor, Ramli Kamarudin, too, was transferred from the NSC in 1993 to head the Sabah NRD and shortly before Ops Durian Burok began.

Ramli said he was "ordered" to go to Sabah to help support the creation of a state government that would be "favourable to Islam".

5. Kemas and unnamed political party also implicated

Aside from the NRD and Sabah EC that were implicated, the federal government's Community Development Department (Kemas) was also fingered during the RCI.

NRD officer Asli Sidup, who was involved in both operations, had said that aside from Sabah EC, Kemas and an unnamed political party were responsible for furnishing NRD with names of registered voters who had never voted for the issuance of blue identity card receipts to immigrants under Ops Durian Buruk.

6. RCI isn't particularly interested on who gave the orders

The three RCI conducting officers are Manoj Kurup, Azmi Ariffin and Jamil Aripin who are tasked to question witnesses during the hearing.

Ten police officers and members of the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) had also been appointed for the RCI's investigation - the same people who had interviewed the witnesses before taking the stand.

Based on what the witnesses had testified and their statements from the interview to date, the investigation appears to be fairly independent but it is unclear if key parts of the 'Project IC' will come to light, particularly on who gave the orders as it is not part of the RCI terms of reference.

Therefore, the conducting officers did not pursue this line of questioning.

An example was when Abdul Rauf Sani was quizzed about G17, the conducting officer Azmi Ariffin had only sought to confirm that they had operated at the residence of Mahathir's political secretary Aziz Shamsuddin but did not go beyond this.

In contrast, watching brief lawyer James Sikayun had grilled Abdul Rauf on why he was at Aziz's residence and whether he had receive instructions from higher ups, but answers were not forthcoming.

Civil society lawyers holding a watching brief are allowed to question the witnesses and they will likely play a role in pushing the limits of the RCI's terms of reference for more information.

The RCI is confined by eight terms of reference:

1) To determine number of immigrants granted blue identity cards;

2) To determine number of immigrants granted blue identity card due to statelessness;

3) To investigate whether this was done legally;

4) To investigate if immigrants holding blue identity cards were illegally registered in the electoral roll;

5) To investigate the standard operating procedures (SOP) for issuance of blue identity card and recommend improvements;

6) To probe if the authorities had taken action or done improvements to the SOP to prevent infringement of the law;

7) To investigate reason behind the increase in Sabah's population and their impact on the electoral roll; and,

8) To investigate the social implications of granting citizenship to immigrants in the state.

7. Conducting officers aren't fans of the media

Often times witnesses are questioned based solely on their statements given during their interview prior to taking the stand.

They are asked to agree or disagree as the statement is read out which could contain names implicated by witnesses or several set of figures.

However, unlike previous royal commissions of inquiry such as the one on Teoh Beng Hock's death, conducting officers are much less forthcoming in providing information and clarification.

8. Context matters

The Project IC apparently began following a political shift in Sabah in which Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) swept to power in 1985, ousting the BN for the very first time.

However, PBS joined BN a year later after riots broke out in relation to the election results which destabilised the state government.

During this period, according to testimonies, there appear to be some cases of immigrants being illegally granted citizenship.

However, this operation went into full swing - in the form of G17 and Ops Durian Buruk - after PBS left the BN in 1990, days before the state election.

In that election, PBS won 36 out of 48 seats in the state assembly. PBS then led by Joseph Pairin Kittingan, was perceived to be a Christian party.

By the 1994 state election held on Feb 18 and 19, the PBS majority was slashed to two - it had 25 seats against BN's 23.

Despite the victory, Joseph Pairin had to wait outside the state palace for some 36 hours before finally being sworn in by the governor.

The delay was supposedly due to manoeuvring to oust the now fragile incumbent through defections, in which then deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim played a key role.

Nevertheless, the PBS government lasted another two weeks before collapsing as a majority of its elected representatives defected to BN.

The defectors included Bernard Dompok, Lajim Ukin, and the chief minister's own brother, Jeffrey Pairin Kittingan.

With the mass defections, the PBS was left with only three elected representatives, namely Joseph Pairin, Maximus Ongkili and Amir Kahar Mustapha.

Joseph Pairin attempted to dissolve the state assembly, but this was denied by the governor. He eventually tendered his resignation as chief minister on March 24, 1994.

RCI resumes tomorrow

The RCI will reconvene its public hearing in Kota Kinabalu tomorrow until Friday, with a third session scheduled for Feb 22 to 27.

A total of 29 witnesses had testified in the first five-day session which concluded on Jan 18. The RCI had officially announced that a total of 48 witnesses would be called.

However, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had revealed that there would be a total of 167 witnesses.

85 comments:

  1. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    It is important that the general public waits until the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) completes its work and announces its findings before it draws conclusions about the motives behind the issuance of Malaysian identity documents to foreigners in the past. Only then would people in both Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia have a clear picture of what really happened, and why.

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  2. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    If statements by individual witnesses are viewed as the entire truth, we may fall into the trap of subscribing to partial accounts of a complex reality. After all, the statements issued by some witnesses on the third day of the Inquiry were contradicted by subsequent testimonies on the fourth and fifth days. This is what one should expect in an open and honest investigation.

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  3. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    Establishing a Royal Commission on such a contentious and controversial issue which has been at the core of Sabah politics for more than three decades was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government.

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  4. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    It demonstrates a readiness to embrace the truth however painful it may be. It is only when the whole truth is known that the multireligious and multi-cultural people of Sabah will be rid of misgivings, doubts and suspicions which have sullied their hitherto harmonious inter-ethnic ties.

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  5. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    To enable the truth to set the people free, they should not overlook a critical dimension in the issuance of Malaysian identity documents and indeed, the conferment of citizenship upon foreigners.

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  6. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    A significant portion of those who sought refuge in Sabah from the seventies onwards comprised the tragic victims of a protracted war in Mindanao which has just ended. This is the humanitarian aspect of citizenship which a civilised state must uphold if it is genuinely committed to compassion and justice.

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    1. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

      There are other angles to citizenship which were among the principal considerations in the accommodation of recently domiciled Chinese and Indian communities in Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia) on the eve of Merdeka in 1957.

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  7. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    Their role in the crucial tin and rubber sectors of the economy, the threat posed by the largely Chinese communist insurgency, and the need for inter-ethnic cooperation in the drive towards Merdeka were some of the principal reasons why a million Chinese and Indians were conferred citizenship in the twinkling of an eye.

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    1. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

      As Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has correctly observed, the UMNO elite was even prepared to set aside conventional citizenship norms in order to bring the new Malayans abroad.

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  8. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    This was in stark contrast to the approach adopted by leaders in other similarly divided societies --- societies in which an indigenous-non-indigenous dichotomy had developed as a result of colonial rule such as Indonesia and Burma (Myanmar) --- where the rules of citizenship were stringently applied so as to ensure the assimilation of the foreign component.

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  9. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    In Malaysia, on the other hand, accommodation of the other changed the landscape drastically. The people who had given the land its identity through Malay Sultanates that have existed for hundreds of years were now relegated to a community among communities.

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  10. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    In other words, by extending citizenship to the Chinese and Indians on such generous terms, the very character of the nascent nation had changed. Adjusting Malay rights arising from this consciousness of a Malay land with the interests of the non-Malays through integration via common citizenship in a larger Malaysian nation has remained the most fundamental challenge of the last 55 years.

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  11. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    In a sense, Sabah, by conferring citizenship upon the migrants from its neighbourhood, in the eighties and nineties, has also experienced a parallel, though different, transformation.

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    1. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

      The non-Muslim Bumiputra component of the population which was the largest segment of a multi-religious society at the time of the state’s incorporation into Malaysia in 1963, lost its lead position to the Muslim Bumiputra component. The angst and anxiety this has created in various circles is understandable and should be addressed with much empathy.

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  12. Establishing a Royal Commission on such was an act of tremendous courage on the part of the Najib Government - kata bekas orang kanan Anwar

    Harmonising the interests of these two segments with the non-Muslim, non-Bumiputra elements, calls for astute statesmanship and dexterity. In this regard, Sabah is fortunate to have as one of its foremost leaders a person like Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kittingan whose political maturity and wisdom have helped to sustain an appreciable degree of interreligious and inter-cultural peace.

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  13. Semangat 1Malaysia yang telah lama sebati dan menjadi budaya dalam kehidupan rakyat Malaysia di Sabah hendaklah terus dimantapkan.

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    1. konsep 1Malaysia bermodalkan kepada perpaduan rakyat di sabah yang terdiri daripada pelbagai suku kaum namun dapat hidup dalam keadaan yang harmoni dan saling menghormati antara satu sama lain.

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  14. Semangat itu perlu terus dipupuk dan dihayati bagi membolehkan rakyat terus bersatu padu dan bersama-sama bergerak maju untuk membentuk masyarakat Malaysia yang berjaya.

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  15. Dengan mempunyai lebih daripada 32 suku kaum dan etnik dan kita bertutur dalam bahasa yang berbeza serta mengamalkan tradisi dan adat resam masing-masing namun kita tetap bersatu, saling mempercayai dan saling menghormati antara satu dengan lain.

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  16. keamanan dan keharmonian yang dinikmati hari ini adalah hasil daripada perjuangan pemimpin-pemimpin terdahulu.

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    1. Keharmonian yagn rakyat nikmati harus dipeliharakan.

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    2. keamanan dan keharmonian ini juga adalah hasil daripada kestabilan politik sabah yang dinikmati kini..maka adalah wajar kerajaan BN diberi mandat semula pada pru13 nanti agar keamanan dan keharmonian ini dapat dikekalkan.

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  17. Mereka berjuang dengan gigih dan mengenepikan perbezaan demi memastikan keamanan dan kesejahteraan untuk masa depan negara dan generasi akan datang.

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  18. seluruh warga Malaysia khasnya di Sabah supaya tidak terpedaya dengan tindakan tidak bertanggungjawab pihak-pihak tertentu yang hanya akan menghancurkan kemajuan,kemakmuran dan keharmonian yang telah dibina.

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  19. Sektor korporat, individu yang berkemampuan dan Ngo untuk bersama-sama menghulurkan bantuan kepada mereka yang kurang bernasib baik.

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  20. Penubuhan RCI bukti kerajaan BN perjuang hak rakyat Sabah


    Pengumuman Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak tentang penubuhan RCI adalah tepat dan bukti kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) komited untuk memperjuangkan hak dan kesejahteraan rakyat Sabah.

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  21. Penubuhan RCI bukti kerajaan BN perjuang hak rakyat Sabah


    Penubuhan RCI yang disuarakan oleh parapemimpin politik termasuk pemimpin pembangkang dan NGO yang menjadi isu sebelum ini kini terjawab apabila Perdana Menteri mengumumkan kesediaan kerajaan BN untuk menubuhkan RCI.

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  22. Penubuhan RCI bukti kerajaan BN perjuang hak rakyat Sabah

    Kita amat berterima kasih kepada Perdana Menteri kerana akhirnya mengumum- kan penubuhan RCI yang menjadi penantian rakyat Sabah sebelum ini.

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    1. Pertubuhan RCI cuma di peringkat awal, masih banyak perlu diusahakan.

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  23. Penubuhan RCI bukti kerajaan BN perjuang hak rakyat Sabah

    Keprihatinan kerajaan yang dalam menubuhkan RCI perlu disambut baik oleh semua pihak tanpa mengira fahaman dan ideologi politik agar matlamat penubuhannya akan tercapai.

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  24. Penubuhan RCI bukti kerajaan BN perjuang hak rakyat Sabah

    Penubuhan RCI yang diumumkan Perdana Menteri merupakan hadiah kepada rakyat Sabah kerana dengan penubuhannya masa depan dan keselamatan rakyat di negeri lebih terjamin.

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  25. Penubuhan RCI bukti kerajaan BN perjuang hak rakyat Sabah

    Gesaan supaya RCI ditubuhkan sebelum ini telah disuarakan oleh para pemimpin parti-parti komponen BN termasuk Umno dan tidak terkecuali pemimpin- pemimpin parti pembangkang yang menghangatkan keadaan.

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  26. Penubuhan RCI bukti kerajaan BN perjuang hak rakyat Sabah

    Pemimpin- pemimpin pembangkang sudah meletakkan isu itu sebagai senjata kempen menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 dengan harapan ia akan menarik perhatian rakyat untuk mengalihkan sokongan kepada mereka.

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  27. RCI Sabah: Status Kerakyatan Diberi Mengikut Undang-Undang

    Pemberian status kerakyatan kepada pendatang asing di Sabah tidak menjadi kesalahan kerana ia dibuat mengikut undang-undang.

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    1. Sudah tentu pemberian ic tidak mengikut prosedur yang betul.

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  28. RCI Sabah: Status Kerakyatan Diberi Mengikut Undang-Undang

    Pendedahan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) mengenai perkara itu perlu dilihat secara positif kerana ia juga menunjukkan keihlasan Barisan Nasional (BN) dalam menyelesaikan masalah di Sabah.

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  29. RCI Sabah: Status Kerakyatan Diberi Mengikut Undang-Undang

    Keputusan RCI adalah tanda keikhlasan kita dalam menyelesaikan masalah ini. Jadi teruskan usaha untuk memastikan masalah ini selesai sepenuhnya.

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    1. penubuhan RCI sabah menunjukkan BN prihatin dan ikhlas menyelesaikan masalah rakyat Sabah.

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  30. RCI Sabah: Status Kerakyatan Diberi Mengikut Undang-Undang

    Selagi ia dibuat mengikut undang-undang ia bukan menjadi isu yang besar. Mengikut undang-undang itu bukan bermaksud menghalalkan begitu saja. Tapi perlulah mengikut prosuder yang telah ditetapkan.

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  31. RCI Sabah: Status Kerakyatan Diberi Mengikut Undang-Undang

    Keputusan yang dibuat telah melalui banyak proses dan melibatkan ramai saksi. Justeru perkara ini tidak perlu diperbesarkan. Pemberian status kerakyatan turut berlaku di negara lain.

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  32. The past could catch up with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim soon, with even Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan saying he should be subpoenaed by the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigration in Sabah.

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  33. The Bersih co-chairperson declared on Tuesday that the RCI must subpoena all those who knew or were involved in "Project IC" in Sabah. When asked at a press conference whether this should include Anwar, who was Deputy Prime Minister in the 1990s, Ambiga replied: "Why not?"

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  34. Over the recent weeks, the RCI has heard testimonies from witnesses on how MyKads were allegedly given to illegal immigrants with no proper documentation.

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  35. The net is expected to spread wider, with questions now being asked of Anwar's own role at the time.

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  36. Sabah Umno liaison deputy chief Salleh Said Keruak challenged Anwar to shed some light on the illegal immigrants issue in Sabah.

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  37. Salleh said that Anwar was duty bound to do so as he was Deputy Prime Minister at that time, and "he was a powerful man and knew what was going on in Sabah".

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  38. Datuk Seri Najib Razak set up the RCI last August, giving it six months to complete its investigation on the influx of illegal immigrants in Sabah.

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    1. Tindakan bijak oleh Najib. kami menantikan perkembangan selanjutnya. Semoga segala siasatan dan keputusan adalah positif.

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    2. najib adalah seorang pemimpin yang berjiwa rakyat, yang mendengar keluhan rakyat dan bersedia menyelesaikan isu2 rakyat...

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    3. Kerajaan sememangnya komited untuk mencari jalan penyelesaian terbaik kepada isu pendatang tanpa izin (PATI) di Sabah meskipun ia merupakan satu masalah besar yang amat mencabar. Kerajaan juga melihat perkara itu dengan serius dan mengambil tindakan yang sewajarnya.

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    4. Masa yang diperlukan mungkin lebih banyak dari yang dijangka.

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  39. The commission is also investigating whether those who had illegally obtained the blue identity card or temporary identification receipt (blue) or citizenship were registered in the electoral roll.

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    1. The EC should ensure a right people are in the electoral roll.

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  40. Illegal immigration is arguably the most pressing issue in Sabah today, and frequently blamed for the social, economic and security problems in the state. According to figures made available in Parliament last year, Sabah's population in 1970 was 651,304 and grew to 929,299 a decade later. Two decades later, the state's population had jumped to 2,468,246 by 2000.

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  41. In 2010, this number was estimated to have grown to 3.12 million, with foreigners allegedly making up a sizeable 27 per cent or 889,799 of the population.

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  42. The Prime Minister has therefore presented to the people of Sabah the tools to identify the extent and nature of the problem, as well as the means to correct it.

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  43. Salleh, who is also State Legislative Assembly Speaker, said the people should praise and support Najib for his bold move to set up the RCI.

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  44. "Once RCI completes its task then the government will study and act on it accordingly to resolve the matter once and for all.

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    1. Undang-undang harus diketatkan untuk memastikan kemasukan PATI dapat dikawal.

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  45. "Those who were qualified and obtained their citizenship through proper procedure should not be punished and those who obtained it through illegal or dubious means must have their citizenship revoked. That should be the way," he said.

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  46. Meanwhile, Parti Bersatu Sabah also wants Anwar to testify at the RCI, with PBS information chief Johnny Mositun saying Anwar was Deputy Prime Minister at the time.

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  47. "I am sure he (Anwar) has much to reveal," said Mositun, adding that the now Opposition leader has been silent on the illegal immigrant issue during his visits to Sabah.

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  48. "Whenever he comes to Sabah he (Anwar) only talks about how poor Sabah is to the extent that people in Semenanjung really think that we Sabahans are very poor, " he said.

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  49. In political terms, Najib has stolen the Opposition's thunder yet again. By showing that he is listening to Sabahans, and by giving them what they have been asking for so many years, he has taken away the Opposition's request and granted it to the people of Sabah.

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  50. Poor Anwar. He must be feeling uneasy, because he may soon have to reveal exactly what happened under his watch in the 1990s. Demanding transparency is easy, living up to it is much more difficult.

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  51. Kerajaan sebelum ini tidak berpeluk tubuh, sebaliknya menubuhkan jawatankuasa pusat yang diketuai Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dan jawatankuasa negeri yang dipengerusikan Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri bagi menyelesaikan masalah itu secara bersama.

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  52. Banyak program dijalankan termasuk penguatkuasaan melalui pelbagai agensi iaitu polis, tentera dan imigresen bagi menghantar pulang mereka ke negara masing-masing.

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    1. Tetapi program yang dijalankan tidak berjaya, masih banyak lagi berada di merata tempat.

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  53. Banyak program dijalankan termasuk penguatkuasaan melalui pelbagai agensi iaitu polis, tentera dan imigresen bagi menghantar pulang mereka ke negara masing-masing.Di Sabah yang paling ramai ialah warga Indonesia dan Filipina. Bagi warga Indonesia, tidak menjadi masalah untuk menghantar pulang kerana mereka mempunyai konsulat di Sabah. Tetapi Filipina, ia agak sukar diuruskan kerana negara itu tidak mempunyai konsulat di sini.

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    1. sejak dari tahun 1990, seramai hampir 447, 000 orang pendatang asing telah dihantar balik ke negara asal masing2...usaha membanteras kemasukkan pendatang asing di sabah sentiasa diteruskan oleh kerajaan dan yang terkini ialah penubuhan RCI..

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    2. Penubuhan RCI masih di permulaan. Semoga RCI dapat melaksanakan tanggung jawab yang diberi.

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  54. Daripada satu segi ia menunjukkan keprihatinan Barisan Nasional (BN) terhadap isu pendatang asing di Sabah, namun daripada sudut lain ia adalah strategi politik BN menangani atau memberi maklum balas kepada tekanan politik yang diketengahkan parti-parti komponen etnik Kadazandusun Murut (KDM) dan pertubuhan bukan kerajaan mereka.

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  55. RCI bukannya satu-satunya isu pokok yang cuba dijual untuk menagih simpati rakyat. Sebaliknya, isu RCI lebih cenderung kepada kemungkinan bertambahnya sokongan KDM terhadap Umno/BN.

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    1. Ya KDM,PAIRIN kata,Mahathir TIDAK salah bagi IC sama PATI, DOMPOK , KURUP,MAXIMUS Jga sama setuju,SEMUA PARTI BN:- PBS,PBRS,LDP,UMNO,NGO KDM JUGA SETUJU, MAHATHIR WIRA NEGERI SABAH........Orang Asal Sabah,Murut ,Kadazan,Bajau, Kadayan,Iranun,Dusun,APA KATA KAMU Setuju KA ? Kalau TIDAK bererti semua mereka mereka ini adalah penghianat RAKYAT SABAH,perlu di TUKAR .....FIKIRKAN Sebelum mengundi dalam PRU 13 ini

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  56. This RCI is like a consolation to PBS.

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  57. RCISabah : KENAPA MAHU DIRAHSIAKAN FAKTA INI!!!

    Disebabkan pelbagai andaian, persepsi dan cerita yang meniti di bibir rakyat Sabah ini sejak sekian lama. PM memutuskan untuk menubuhkan Suruhanjaya di Raja (RCI) yang diumumkan pada 11 Ogos tahun lepas untuk menyelesaikan sepenuhnya masalah pendatang tanpa izin di Sabah.

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  58. RCISabah : KENAPA MAHU DIRAHSIAKAN FAKTA INI!!!

    Walaupun baru sesi pertama prosiding, pembangkang terlebih dahulu dilihat menjadi hakim dalam prosiding tersebut dengan menjatuhkan pelbagai hukuman ke atas mantan PM Tun Mahathir Mohammed.

    Terma-terma yang digunakan pula telah menimbulkan salah faham masyarakat serta menimbulkan persepsi buruk terhadap jabatan-jabatan kerajaan seperti JPN, SPR dan MKN.

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    1. Jabatan ini berkait rapat dengan isu kemasukan PATI dan kerakyatan.

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  59. Beri ruang prosiding RCI sebelum buat penilaian: Pairin

    Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sabah, Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan meminta semua pihak memberi ruang kepada Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) menjalankan tugas menyiasat masalah pendatang tanpa izin di Sabah sebelum membuat penilaian.

    Ia, katanya, bagi memastikan prosiding berjalan lancar mengikut terma yang ditetapkan kerajaan.

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  61. Jadi kita sepatutnya menilai secara matang dan bukannya terlalu mengikut emosi sehinggakan belum pun selesai prosiding kita sudah buat penghakiman:P

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  62. kita kena pastikan RCI berjalan lancar dan dpt selesaikan isu berkaitan PATI.

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