January 30, 2013 18:04 PM http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsgeneral.php?id=924996
Immigration Detention Centres Have Good Amenities, RCI Told
KOTA KINABALU, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- The Royal Commission of Inquiry
(RCI) investigating the illegal immigrants problem in Sabah was today
told that illegal immigrants sheltered at temporary detention centres in
Sandakan were provided with good amenities.
They are given water and electricity supplies, fans, blankets, toilet facilities, and medical care.
Nisa Rahman, the 42nd witness, who testified at today's proceedings, said she lived in a block which catered for about 100 women doctor and a doctor visited them once a week.
The 30-year-old witness said she came to Tawau from Sulawesi, Indonesia with 10 immigrants in October 2011 before being taken to Sandakan without being checked by the authorities.
Nisa, who worked at an oil palm plantation in Sandakan and paid RM100 a month, was caught on Dec 9 last year by the Immigration Department while walking in Sandakan as she had no identification documents.
To a question from conducting officer Jamil Aripin, Nisa said she did not know when she would be deported.
Earlier, the 41st witness, Degon Amy, 23, from Tawi-Tawi, the Philippines, who lived in a block housing about 170 detainees, said he came to Sabah in 2002 at the age of 13 and was arrested two years later while working as a bus conductor.
The 38th witness, Lung Sim Yee, from China, who testified in Mandarin, said she was married to a Malaysian in 1986 and had applied for citizenship and a blue identity card at the National Registration Department.
Lung, who cried uncontrollably earlier, said she, her mother and her younger sister came to Tawau to track down her father and she registered as a voter last year.
Rasad Salleh from the Philippines, who came to Sandakan in 1979, said he was among 666 immigrants who lived in the Kampung Tongkang resettlement scheme which was provided with water and electricity supply and a religious school for children.
There were 112 houses in the scheme and the immigrants there were provided with IMM-13, the identification documents issued the Filipino refugees, he added.
On the other hand, Waja Atik, who lived in the Pulau Berhala resettlement scheme in Sandakan since 1980, said the immigrants there had no electricity and water supplies and had to rely on wells and generators.
-- BERNAMA
They are given water and electricity supplies, fans, blankets, toilet facilities, and medical care.
Nisa Rahman, the 42nd witness, who testified at today's proceedings, said she lived in a block which catered for about 100 women doctor and a doctor visited them once a week.
The 30-year-old witness said she came to Tawau from Sulawesi, Indonesia with 10 immigrants in October 2011 before being taken to Sandakan without being checked by the authorities.
Nisa, who worked at an oil palm plantation in Sandakan and paid RM100 a month, was caught on Dec 9 last year by the Immigration Department while walking in Sandakan as she had no identification documents.
To a question from conducting officer Jamil Aripin, Nisa said she did not know when she would be deported.
Earlier, the 41st witness, Degon Amy, 23, from Tawi-Tawi, the Philippines, who lived in a block housing about 170 detainees, said he came to Sabah in 2002 at the age of 13 and was arrested two years later while working as a bus conductor.
The 38th witness, Lung Sim Yee, from China, who testified in Mandarin, said she was married to a Malaysian in 1986 and had applied for citizenship and a blue identity card at the National Registration Department.
Lung, who cried uncontrollably earlier, said she, her mother and her younger sister came to Tawau to track down her father and she registered as a voter last year.
Rasad Salleh from the Philippines, who came to Sandakan in 1979, said he was among 666 immigrants who lived in the Kampung Tongkang resettlement scheme which was provided with water and electricity supply and a religious school for children.
There were 112 houses in the scheme and the immigrants there were provided with IMM-13, the identification documents issued the Filipino refugees, he added.
On the other hand, Waja Atik, who lived in the Pulau Berhala resettlement scheme in Sandakan since 1980, said the immigrants there had no electricity and water supplies and had to rely on wells and generators.
-- BERNAMA
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