IT HAS been a few days after the statement made by the former Prime Minister Dr Mahatir on his blog, and immediately there is a continuous wave of hit back on what he had commented on the RCI and the illegal immigrant issue in Sabah.
The people in Sabah did not agree at all on what he had said, and especially on the point that when foreigners became Malaysian, they are “Malays”! The KK MP Hiew King Cheu commented that if Dr M said that there is no need for the RCI to be established to investigate the influx of Sabah population and on why so many foreigners whether legal or illegal had become citizens of Malaysia, he is going against the will of the Sabahan. Many said it is better for him to keep quiet and be happily retired.
In actual fact, who is responsible for this 'doing' and happenings, will up to the RCI to conduct the investigation and inquiry. The committee will have to dig to the bottom of the matter to expose the facts and details. The Project IC has been known and around for a long time, and many foreigners had admitted openly that they have obtained their Malaysian IC through the Project IC program. This will not be hard or difficult for the RCI to prop into the root cause of the issue.
There was a Parliament Select Committee which had been set up to dig into the same problems of the illegal immigrant problems in Sabah some years ago, and it will be useful for the RCI to use some of their findings during that time before this was abandoned by its chairman Tan Sri Bernard Dumpok of that PSC after his resignation.
Dr M has said something irrelevant and contradicting to the issue, and what he said have not only hurt the feeling of the people in Sabah but also insulted the intelligence of the Sabah people. The people have started to doubt about his motive of throwing out those words and comments which seem to be providing a shelter to some one or to cover something.
He said the RCI is not necessary, and he also highlighted that for those who had lived here for a long time are qualified to be a Malaysian because they speaks Malay and to be called ‘Malays’.
What about those many Chinese who are still holding red IC / PR after staying here for 70 years, speaking good Malay and contributed their whole life in building the country, are they not qualified to be granted Malaysian citizenship?
There were cases that some foreigners obtained their MYcard just shortly arriving from their own country to here, not knowing a single word of Malay, how to justify this?
The high influx of Sabah population happened during the past 20 years, until today the Sabah population had increased many times from the 650,000 people in the sixties to over 3.4 million people now. There is an estimation of 35% of the population are made up of the foreigners.
What will be the eventual finding of the RCI, and what can they do after the six months of investigation, and this is still to be seen? - Sabahkini
I will not shock if he was the mastermind for this 'disaster' in Sabah and other leaders/local peole have to bear the consequences because of his insane agenda.
ReplyDeletethat why he said no need for RCI to solve the problem.. because he is the one who create the problem..
DeleteThey can do anything to stay in power.
DeleteDon't lick your own spit please.
ReplyDeleteTun M tidak boleh buat apa2 sudah.. ini bukan zaman beliau, ini zaman Najib.. mustahil Najib akan dengar cakap dia.. bukan Tun M yang tentukan kemenangan BN, sebaliknya rakyat biasa yang menuntut penubuhan RCI..
ReplyDeleteDr. M harus berhenti membuat komen yang seakan menjejas pentadbiran Najib.
Deleteeloklah Tun M berhenti dari terus campur tangan urusan pentadbiran Najib.. beliau bukannya membantu umno, sebaliknya menyusahkan umno..
ReplyDeleteTun M patut bersyukur kerana Najib terpaksa bertungkus lumus menyelesaikan masalah2 yang ditinggalkan oleh beliau.. jangan la menambah beban ke bahu Najib hanya kerana mahu menutup kesilapan sendiri..
ReplyDeleteDr M baik jgn keluarkan kenyataan yang bukan2. dia patut sokong segala usaha baik Najib.
ReplyDeleteDr M mungkin perlu lebih berhati-hati dalam mengeluarkan keyataan beliau.
ReplyDeleteNajib harus diberi kebebasan untuk memimpin Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteItu cuma pandangan peribadi beliau.
ReplyDeleteRCI should take place immediately.
ReplyDeleteThe United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO) said in a statement here that Dr Mahathir, whom the opposition has blamed for Sabah's unchecked population increase, had confused the state's illegal immigrants with its legal migrants.
ReplyDelete"Legal migrants are foreigners who enter Malaysia legally with the requisite visa or work permit endorsed on their passports from their respective country of origin, who later decide to apply for Malaysian citizenship," UPKO information chief Datuk Donald Peter Mojuntin reminded the country's longest serving prime minister.
ReplyDelete"Illegal immigrants are those who enter Malaysia without any passports or travel documentation," he said.
ReplyDeleteThe Penampang MP pointed out to Dr Mahathir (picture) that the key concern in the issue was over allegations that illegal immigrants have been given Malaysian identification cards very quickly through "dubious means" and that their names have also entered the state's electoral roll.
ReplyDeleteMojuntin recalled the 1999 Likas election petition case at a High Court here, where a Filipino named Fuad Ari from Tawi-Tawi island had testified that he had obtained his identification card through "Projek IC".
ReplyDelete"Various books have been written about the existence of 'Projek IC'. Since the 1980s, there have been so many Sabahans from the grassroots level to community and political leaders voicing their concerns about this issue," Mojuntin said.
ReplyDelete"UPKO and genuine Sabahans are very disappointed with and angered by the insensitive statement by Dr Mahathir.
ReplyDelete"This a real and serious issue that affects the lives of genuine Malaysian citizens in Sabah and the problem may have already seeped to the peninsula.
ReplyDelete"It concerns national security, economic and job opportunities as well as health issues. It has tarnished our electoral rolls," he said.
ReplyDeleteThe apparent correlation between Sabah's population boom with Dr Mahathir's tenure from 1981 to 2003 has drawn even more suspicion to the influential leader's alleged involvement in the matter.
ReplyDeleteDr Mahathir has long been accused of spearheading “Project IC”, an initiative to award foreigners Malaysian citizenships in exchange for votes in the east Malaysian state, allegedly to help keep the ruling BN in power.
ReplyDeleteBut the former prime minister, in an apparent move to quieten the uproar over the longstanding issue, yesterday wrote in his blog that many migrants in Sabah were qualified to be given Malaysian citizenships as they have stayed in the country for decades and speak Bahasa Malaysia.
ReplyDelete"On the basis of length of stay and mastering of the national language, they qualify to be citizens of this country. And so they acquired citizenship.
ReplyDelete"By comparison we have many citizens who cannot speak the national language who were accepted as citizens. And we are still giving citizenship to foreigners who wish to be Malaysians on condition they have been living in this country for 10 out of the last 12 years, speak the national language and take the oath of allegiance to the country.
ReplyDelete"So why cannot the migrants to Sabah who have all these qualifications be accepted as citizens? The objections for them being accepted seem to be political," he said.
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