KOTA KINABALU: Senior Assistant Commissioner (SAC) Zulkifli Abd Aziz, 53, met up with terrorist chief Abgimuddin Kiram three times while the crown prince was holed up in Tanduo, each time to get the self-proclaimed Sulu chieftain to leave the State.
He said each time he offered Abgimuddin to leave without bloodshed, he was told that as a civilian, he (Zulkifli) had no authority to give him (Abgimuddin) any instructions.
Abgimuddin said he would only listen to his elder brothers, Datu Jamalul Kiram and Datu Ismail Kiram, and if they directed him to leave, then only would he leave Sabah.
Hassan is accused of withholding information with regards to the intrusion of Tanduo by Abgimuddin and a band of heavily armed terrorists in February this year.
Hassan (below) who was attached to the police special branch in Lahad Datu was alleged to have committed the offence at the office of the special branch chief at the Lahad Datu police station between Jan 2013 and March 2013.
On Tuesday, the second day of the trial, Zulkifli told High Court Judge Ravinthran N. Paramaguru that he met Agbimuddin three times at a house in Tanduo, and each time he told the Sulu intruder that he had violated Malaysian sovereignty.
The first meeting was on Feb 14, 2013 at 2pm, when Zulkifli together with two other SB personnel, ASP Zulhani Borhan and Corporal Salsagap went to meet Agbimuddin.
Testifying during an examination-in-chief by DPP Dato’ Nordin Hassan, Zulkifli said that at the first meeting he told Agbimuddin that his action to intrude into Kampung Tanduo with his followers was against the Malaysia laws.
“After I explained to Agbimuddin, he thanked to me for taking care of Sabah for the past 50 years and said now it is his turn to take care of Sabah,” said Zulkifli who was then deputy chief of Sabah special branch.
Zulkifli, who is now the ESSCOM Intelligence chief of staff, also recalled that during the first meeting Agbimuddin gave him five documents, which were tendered to the court and marked as exhibits.
“After he gave me the documents, Agbimuddin also said that he would not leave Kampung Tanduo until his elder brothers told him to do so, as I as a civilian had no authority to give him any instructions,” he said.
To another question by Nordin, Zulkifli testified that during their second meeting on Feb 15, 2013, at 11am, he together with Datuk Rashid, ASP Noraidin, Inspector Yusri and corporal Salsagap, Zulkifli again advised Agbimuddin and his followers to leave Sabah.
“His response was the same and he said the same thing that he is a prince and only his brothers have the authority to tell him to leave Sabah,” he recalled, adding that several documents were also given to Zulkifli during that meeting.
At the third meeting he said, they again failed to persuade Agbimuddin to leave Sabah immediately before any bloodshed happened and Agbimuddin replied that for them to die is just an ordinary thing as Sabah belong to the Sultanate of Sulu.
Zulkifli also trstified that while in Tanduo he noticed there was tight security put up by the gunmen of the Royal Sulu Force (RSF) who wore camouflage uniform, and were armed with various weapons like M16, M14, Garran, Carbine, pistol and machetes.
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HOW CAN WE CALL OUR BROTHERS & COUSINS "TERRORISTS".
ReplyDeleteTHE REAL TERRORISTS ARE HIDING IN THE AIR-CON OFFICES OF PUTRA JAYA.
KOTA KINABALU: A policeman told the High Court yesterday that it was the Sulu gunmen who fired first at a group of Malaysian commandos during their encounter at Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu. Mancha Anak Ata, 48, who is attached to the General Operations Force commando Unit 69, told the High Court here yesterday that he and his fellow commandos were patrolling in the village on March 1 at around 9.50am when they spotted some 35 to 40 armed intruders who taunted and shouted at them. Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/06/27/sulu-intruders-fired-first-in-kg-tanduo-cop/#ixzz2XRFrrUrg KOTA KINABALU: A policeman told the High Court yesterday that it was the Sulu gunmen who fired first at a group of Malaysian commandos during their encounter at Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu. Mancha Anak Ata, 48, who is attached to the General Operations Force commando Unit 69, told the High Court here yesterday that he and his fellow commandos were patrolling in the village on March 1 at around 9.50am when they spotted some 35 to 40 armed intruders who taunted and shouted at them.
ReplyDelete“The intruders shouted “Tiger, keluar kau dari sini, ini bumi kami” (Tiger, get out of here, this is our land), before they opened fire at us repeatedly,” he testified at the trial of special branch detective Corporal Hassan Hj Ali Basari who is charged for intentionally withholding information relating to terrorism acts.
ReplyDeleteHassan, 58, who was attached to the special branch in Lahad Datu, was charged with intentional omission to submit information relating to terrorism acts at the office of the special branch chief at Lahad Datu police station between January and March, 2013.
The indictment under Section 130M of the Penal Code carries a maximum jail of seven years, or with a fine, or with both, upon conviction.
ReplyDelete“We took cover and fired back at the intruders,” Mancha told Justice Ravinthran Paramaguru during examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Dato Nordin Hassan, who had asked him about the action they took after the intruders attacked them.
He also said that one of his personnel died at the scene due to severe gunshot wounds during the shootout that lasted for one hour.
ReplyDeleteTo a question from Nordin, Mancha said, the intruders were armed with M16 rifles, garrands, pistols and grenade launchers.
Tidak perlu menyebabkan kematian.
Delete“After the shootout, I instructed my personnel to check the area and they found 12 dead bodies of the intruders, weapons and their clothes,” he said, adding that they left the area at 2pm on the next day after they received instruction to withdraw.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, another witness, Lahad Datu special branch chief told the court that the information about the Sultanate of Sulu and his threat to Sabah was important and should be reported immediately to him.
Assistant Superintendent Noraidin Ag Maidin, 37, said that any information regarding national security must be reported to him by way of writing or orally.
ReplyDelete“My personnel were given a deadline to submit whatever information they gathered to me as soon as possible soon after they received the information,” he said during examination-in-chief by Nordin.
He also said that Hassan has never informed him that he had contacted Agbimuddin on February 13 and 17, 2013 and this was important information as Agbimuddin was the leader of the intruders.
ReplyDelete“Apart from that, Hassan had never informed that he knew about the invasion plan by 1,500 people who gathered in Simunul Island that they would intrude Sabah,” said Noraidin.
During cross-examination by Ram, he disagreed with the suggestion by counsel that he was blaming the accused solely for not giving him information.
ReplyDeleteTo another question, Noraidin said, he was not aware about the Sulu claim over Sabah until he was informed on February 12, 2013 that an invasion had taken place at Kampung Tanduo by the Sulu gunmen.
“My first knowledge about this Sabah claim was from the police report lodged by an auxiliary police (one of the prosecution’s witnesses),” he answered, when agreeing to another question from Ram.
ReplyDeleteNordin was assisted by DPPs Nazrul Nizam Mohd Zameri, Cheng Heng Kher and Anati Kisahi while Ram was assisted by counsels Kamarudin Mohd Chinki and YS Lo.
The trial continues on June 28.