‘Special panel for Sabah RCI findings is another delay tactic’
DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang
claimed the formation of the special panel to look into the findings and
compile recommendations on the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal
Immigrants in Sabah (RCIIIS) to be headed by Sabah Deputy Chief Minister
Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan is just another delay tactic. — TRP file
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17, 2014:
The Prime Minister’s decision to form a
special committee to look into the findings and compile recommendations
on the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah
(RCIIIS) is just another proof of continued lack of political will to
solve the decades-old problem in the state, claims DAP supremo Lim Kit
Siang.
In a statement, the Gelang Patah MP
today said that while the latest decision by Prime Minister Datuk Seri
Najib Razak may be hailed by many Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders in
Sabah, the formation of the special committee to be headed by Sabah
Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan is just another
delay tactic.
“When political will is completely
absent, it is indeed fat hope since it took some seven months before
publication of the RCIIIS report.
“Would Kitingan dare state when he expects the long-standing problem of illegal immigrants in Sabah is to be resolved?
“In
2015, 2016, 2017, before or after the 14th General Election, 2018, 2019
or even 2020?” he asked in response to Kitingan’s statement that the
people have high hopes for the federal government to put to rest the
long-standing issue of illegal immigrants in Sabah.
Many people were also eager to learn
about the findings by the RCIIIS and the solutions to the issue during
the the opening of the 29th Parti Bersatu Sabah congress in Kota
Kinabalu yesterday.
Lim claimed that the RCIIIS report was
submitted to the federal government on May 14, and that the Cabinet
decided exactly six months later on Nov 14 to make the report public the
following month.
“Can the Prime Minister explain what the
Cabinet or the federal government did in the six months from May 14 to
Nov 14 with regard to the RCIIIS report?
“Did the Cabinet or federal government
just sit on the report doing nothing, hoping that everybody would forget
about it, but when they found that the people of Sabah, in particular
Pakatan Rakyat state assembly representatives and MPs, both from Sabah
and Malaysia, continue to demand publication of the RCIIIS report, they
have no choice after a six-month procrastination but to promise to make
it public?” he asked.
Claiming that Kitingan through his party
had called on for the formation of the RCI since it was established in
1985, Lim asked how long will the new committee take before it reveals
its findings and proposed its recommendations.
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