KOTA KINABALU: Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (STAR) lodged a police report today against a Facebook account holder over a posting deemed malicious against party president Jeffrey Kitingan.
STAR deputy president Jalumin Bayogoh said he saw the posting, under Negara Borneo Utara, yesterday which showed Kitingan’s face with a quote attributed to the Keningau MP.
The caption in Malay means: “Suluk illegal immigrants in Sabah must be exterminated; they will seize Sabah from Kadazandusun. Sabah belongs to Kadazandusun. If STAR rules Sabah, I will ensure Suluk will be eliminated immediately and Sabah is a Christian Catholic region, not Islam, says Jeffrey Kitingan, chairman of STAR.”
Jalumin said: “This statement is malicious and slanderous because Kitingan has never said this.
“In fact, through my observation of previous posts by the page’s administrators, they have always published slanderous statements.”
In fact, Jalumin said even Deputy Home Minister Azis Jamman had become a victim of slander by the page’s administrator in the past.
Other personalities the page claimed to have quoted included former chief minister Musa Aman, Chief Minister Shafie Apdal, political analysts and other Sabah rights activists.
Jalumin said almost all of the posts uploaded by the administrators were meant to incite hatred towards the Suluk people, who were described as illegal immigrants out to claim Sabah as their own.
At the same time, the posts also implied that Sabah belongs to the Kadazandusun people and that it should be a Catholic state.
“I suspect the administrators are trying to wreak havoc among the people in Sabah.
“This page has more than 15,000 followers and many of their followers simply share the posts to other social media platforms like WhatsApp.
“I also notice that those behind the page are up to date on current political affairs.
“They just misquote people or create any damning statements and attribute these to politicians,” said Jalumin.
He said the police report was lodged as STAR is concerned about threats made on the lives of Kitingan and his family due to these fake statements by “Negara Borneo Utara”.
“I am confident police can help solve this problem and trace the owners of this page and bring them to justice,” he said.
Jalumin was accompanied by a group of STAR leaders and supporters at the police station here today. - FMT
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