Parti Bersatu Sabah Information Chief Datuk Jahid Jahim said all these statements virtually rubbished Leiking's own statement on Oct. 21 where he denied that the new Warisan-led Sabah government was issuing MyKads to illegal immigrants.
According to Jahid, who was once the Director of Settlement Division and Secretary of State Internal Affairs under the Chief Minister Department, there is enough proof of government interference in the Immigration Department and cited the so-called census of IMM13 holders and their children carried out by the Department from Oct. 1 to Oct. 12 as sufficient proof.
Saying Sabahans are not fools nor blind to what has been going on where illegals are concerned, he said Leiking's offer to quit over the issue was a meaningless threat.
"Clearly, he is using reverse psychology by threatening to resign," he said in a statement, adding that the method is commonly used by many "in their desperate hope that such allegations may be difficult to prove when the parties involved are complicit in the wrongdoing".
"There was no reason for the state government to get involved in the work of the National Registration Department (NRD) and the Immigration Department," Jahid said.
He said many eyebrows were raised last September when Warisan Chairman and Law Minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong conceded in a statement that registration forms for people to get identification cards could be done at the Batu Sapi Rakyat Mobile Service Centre.
Jahid said the public also became suspicious when Deputy Home Minister Azis Jamman bragged in a video that went viral about what he could do for the fire victims at a squatter settlement.
This, he said, was after one of the many fires at squatter settlements in Sabah in the wake of the sudden May 12 change of the state administration.
"Until today, there has been no official explanation on the spate of fires at squatter settlements. There is no reason for mobile National Registration Department (NRD) vans to suddenly appear at these squatter settlements gutted by fire. "They would not do so unless instructed by someone with high ranking authority," he said.
Jahid also questioned why the NRD had suddenly become super-efficient by turning up at the burnt down squatter settlements.
"It is an open secret that illegal immigrants occupy these squatter settlements.
"In fact, the authorities concerned should probe whether these fires were started by arsonists working on the much touted Projek IC 2.0 for illegal immigrants.
"Indeed, it was even admitted by NRD in a media statement on Oct 1 that those turning up at mobile NRD vans, during visits by Warisan president Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, were not eligible for Malaysian citizenship," said Jahid.
He said the disingenuous NRD statement claimed that although they were not Malaysians, the people were not foreigners or illegal immigrants either.
"According to NRD, these people hold IMM13 refugee passes, settlement certificates or 'burung burung', and census certificates. Besides IMM13, according to State Immigration Director Musa Sulaiman on Oct 1, settlement and census certificate holders were also considered refugees."
Jahid said the registration of new Imm13 is no longer relevant. He pointed out that IMM13 was issued by the Immigration Department while the 'burung burung' by the Chief Minister's Department, and census certificates by the National Security Council (NSC).
He said a time bomb is ticking away in Sabah with the thousands of dubious IC holders who could not convert to the MyKad by the end 2006 deadline.
"They are reportedly not in the NRD data bank. No one knows what became of them.
"Also, the Federal Government has since decided that children of 'stateless people' will be admitted to government schools.
"All children should be in school, but where is the proof that these people are stateless?" asked Jahid.
Based on these events, Jahid said, Leiking's threat to resign was just an attempt to hoodwink the people.
"If the roles were reversed and such highly questionable practices took place under the watch of the ousted (BN) government, Leiking would have been the first up in arms and relentless in his outcry," Jahid added. - DE
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