KOTA KINABALU - Negara-Ku Patron Ambiga Sreenevasan invited trouble for herself when she wrote to the Immigration Department on Tues to enquire whether the Sabah Government had any restrictions on her entering the state.
The contents of her letter apparently set off a chain of events that resulted in the Immigration Department advising her not to enter the state, and that she would not be allowed in if she tried to do so, and that if insisted on entering Sabah, she would be sent back by the next available flight to her last port of call.
Ambiga had been planning to visit Sabah on Nov 25 for a Negara-Ku programme.
“They wrote back and rejected my application, even though I was not even applying for permission to enter Sabah,” said Ambiga, a former Bar Council chairman, in a media update. “I wrote the letter only as a formality and to confirm that there was no restrictions on entering Sabah.”
“I had written to them because I don’t want to fly all the way there just to be told I am not allowed in.”
In her letter, Ambiga informed the Immigration Department that she planned to fly to Kota Kinabalu on Nov 25 and asked whether there were any restrictions on her entering the state.
The letter, addressed to Sabah Immigration Department director Noor Alam Khan A. Wahid Khan, informed the authorities that she would be attending a forum on national unity in Kota Kinabalu featuring former Sabah Secretary Simon Sipaun and Bingkor Assemblyman Jeffrey Kitingan.
Apparently, that was enough to set the alarm bells ringing.
The forum in Kota Kinabalu is part of Negara-Ku’s nationwide roadshow to “reclaim Malaysia” and return rationality, openness and civil discussion, moderation and harmony to the country.
The roadshow, which began on Wed in Malacca, will also be held in Perak, Johor, Negri Sembilan, Penang and Kuala Lumpur.
It’s not known whether the roadshow will feature Sarawak where Ambiga was once not allowed to enter by the previous Administration under Taib Mahmud and was put on the next flight to Kuala Lumpur, her last port of call.
By Percy Goliu
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