KIMANIS POLLS | Umno supreme council member Rahman Dahlan has called on voters in Kimanis to reject Warisan candidate Karim Bujang and send a message to Putrajaya over Sabah state government's decision to introduce the Sabah Provisional Pass (PSS) in June.
Ex-minister Rahman said the PSS was a threat to Sabah's people and he described it as a Warisan scam against the people of the state, adding that it was not mentioned in the party's manifesto during the last 14th General Election (GE14) campaign.
"This is not just a Kadazan-Dusun-Murut issue as Muslims also don't want PSS. We have a lot of problems with illegal immigrants.
"Even on hospital beds, we fight with them (foreigners). Our children go to school and fight with them.
"We want them to realise that all Sabahans represented by Kimanis voters do not want and strongly reject PSS registration in Sabah," he said in a speech at Kampung Simpangan in Kimanis last night.
Rahman said he was confident that if PSS had been included in Warisan's manifesto, the party would not have done well in GE14.
The PSS will be issued to replace the IMM13, Kad Burung-Burung and Census certificates, which are now held by a total of 136,055 migrants in Sabah.
The PSS will be issued from June 1, and it is renewable every three years, at a fee of RM120.
It has become a heated topic harped on by the BN and Umno in the Kimanis by-election campaigns in the semi-urban constituency.
This by-election is seeing a face-off between BN's Mohamad Alamin and Warisan's Karim Bujang.
Both candidates had previously served as Bongawan state assemblyperson, which falls under the Kimanis constituency.
Karim, 67 was a five-term Bongawan state lawmaker under the Usno and Umno platforms, from 1990 to 2013. He joined Warisan last year.
Anifah won the Kimanis parliamentary seat with a slim majority of 156 votes in the 14th general election. The Federal Court subsequently upheld the Aug 16, 2019 ruling of the Election Court that declared the victory of Anifah null and void.
Mohamad, who is fondly known as Toh Moh, is a 48-year-old Kota Kinabalu-based lawyer.
He succeeded Karim as the Bongawan state assemblyperson in 2013 but failed to retain his seat in the 2018 general election.
Kimanis is a semi-urban seat having 29,644 registered voters, with 63.16 percent of them being Muslim bumiputera, while 30.67 percent are non-Muslim bumiputra, 3.59 percent Chinese and 2.58 percent others. - Mkini
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