Come clean on ‘ICs for migrants’ RCI, Kit Siang tells Pairin

 

Lim Kit Siang wants to know what the working committee under Joseph Pairin Kitingan achieved.

PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Lim Kit Siang has called on former Sabah chief minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan to speak up on his role as the chairman of a working committee on the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on undocumented migrants in Sabah.

“Why (is it that) nobody knows what the working committee did? What had the working committee under Pairin achieved?” asked Lim in a statement today.

He also questioned why Pairin, the former Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president, did not release the over-5,000 “missing pages” of the RCI report.

“Did the working committee on the RCI report have access to these 5,000 missing pages?

“The RCI report on the undocumented migrants in Sabah should be the thickest and most voluminous of all RCI reports in the nation’s story but it was only 368 pages,” Lim said, adding that there were also memoranda, notes of evidence, statutory declarations and exhibits submitted as part of the RCI.

He said these documents exceed 5,000 pages and are “essential parts of the RCI report”.

Lim’s comments come amid an ongoing row between PBS and Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders over the issue.

On Thursday, Sabah and Sarawak affairs minister Maximus Ongkili opened a can of worms, when he claimed that a component party in BN had given Malaysian ICs to undocumented migrants in Sabah in exchange for their votes.

Without mentioning the party’s name, the PBS president said its involvement in using undocumented migrants for its own political interests had been proven by the RCI. - FMT