Sabah RCI: 'Suluk intruders would have backed off if I were sultan'

Self-proclaimed Sabah sultan Mohd Akjan Ali Muhammad said the Suluk intruders would have backed off from their claim on Sabah had he been made sultan of the state.

Akjan (left) told the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah that the intruders’ general Agbimuddin Kiram from the defunct Sulu sultanate had met him prior to their incursion on Sabah.

“When Datu Agbi came - in February if I am not mistaken - he had appealed to me to become the sultan of Sabah.

“I made an agreement with them that they would drop their claim on Sabah if I became sultan,” he testified at the Kota Kinabalu Court Complex.

Akjan said he had then conveyed this agreement to the police but they had ignored him.

“To save Sabah, I was prepared to become its sultan but the police officer I told about this did not inform his higher-ups,” he said.

By Nigel Aw