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Saturday, January 19, 2013

'Clean up phantom voters before GE'


The early revelations from the royal commission of inquiry into allegations of awarding citizenship in Sabah to immigrants, warrants  every effort to clean up the electoral roll before the next polls are called, says former Malaysia Human Rights commissioner Simon Sipaun.

police abuse suhakam pc 050808 simon sipaunSimon (right) said this is the best move now is to find quick ways to clean up the electoral roll, the better alternative being postponing the general election altogether until the job is done.

"We are faced with time constraints but at least efforts must be made to clean up the clearly phantom voters from the rolls," said the former commissioner ,who had previously served as the Sabah state secretary.

Two National Registration Department officers had earlier in their testimony before the RCI had claimed that they been directed to issue temporary CIs to foreigners in Sabah, enabling them to vote.

They had previously linked former close associates of former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the late Megat Junid Megat Ayob and former rural development minister and Mahathir's former political secretary, Abdul Aziz Shamsudin, with the directive.

However, on Thursday it was reported that former Sabah NRD chief Abdul Rauf Sani had said that he had acted on his own and Abdul Aziz had no role in it.

Yesterday, an Indian and a Pakistani national testified before the RCI that they had became Malaysian citizens within two years of  their arrival in Sabah.

Simon said he is happy with the running of the RCI although what had been said by the witnesses in the inquiry had long been known by the people of Sabah.

He said he does not question anyone's right to be given Malaysian citizenship but the influx of foreigners being given questionable citizenship had stirred up economic, social and political problems in Sabah.

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