Saturday, March 28, 2015

what loopholes??? but likely part of "Al-qaeda" scheme to rule the world??

Loopholes at Menumbok, Jesselton Point Published on: Saturday, March 28, 2015 Kota Kinabalu: The unexplained increasing presence of Pakistani nationals in the State has been debated for several years now and many Sabahans viewed them suspiciously until the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum finally asked the same question. "Are these 'Pakistanis' in possession of genuine travel documents or passports and if not, how did they manage to enter the State?" asked Penampang MP Darell Leiking. He said in 2013, he asked the Home Minister about the absence of immigration checkpoints at Menumbok and Jesselton Point jetty so as to ensure that only those with valid travel documents or passports traveling by ferry from Labuan will be allowed to land and pass the guard post or Customs checks before proceeding to other districts in the State. "The Home Minister in his reply confirmed that there were no necessity for immigration inspection as the Home Minister's Directive gazetted on July 26, 1984 and the Malaysian Immigration Circular dated July 27, 1984 provides for automatic exemption to anyone (including foreigners) from having to produce his/her valid travel documents or passport when entering Sabah from Labuan. "Consequent to these directive and circular, travellers from the peninsula (irrespective of whether they are Malaysian citizens or not) will only need to take a flight from any airport in the peninsula, land at Labuan airport, board the ferry to Menumbok or Jesselton Point and thereafter, proceed to other parts of Sabah freely without producing any valid travel documents or passport at any immigration checkpoint. "In fact, any domestic destination except Sabah and Sarawak requires no production of identity cards but of course, for entrants coming from Labuan to Menumbok or Jesselton Point Jetty pursuant to the directive and circular issued in 1984 need not produce any documents," he said. This 'Menumbok and Jesselton Point Loophole', said Leiking contradicts the immigration sovereignty currently practiced by Sabah when non-Sabahan or Malaysian air travellers will have to produce their passports at the airport immigration checkpoints all over Sabah before being allowed to enter the State. "Hence the paradox is anyone coming by air travel from Labuan will still register their entry if they enter Sabah at the airports but not if they entered through Menumbok or Jesselton Point jetties. How does one comprehend that?" he asked. Leiking continued that Sabah's founding forefathers knew it beforehand that Sabah must have its full power over regional immigration sovereignty to prevent massive influx of immigrants, either from within Malaysia or outside, from entering the State. During that time, he said the immigration safeguard was intended to protect the locals from being displaced in terms of socio-economic progress by immigrants, especially from Singapore and Malaya and also to protect the State's massive natural resources from being exploited by non-Sabahan corporations. "The nonchalant attitude shown by the BN-led Sabah Government over the Menumbok and Jesselton Point loophole is saddening. "This is the clear evidence of its failure to protect our safeguards, privileges and interests contained under the spirit and letter of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and all the preceding documents agreed to by all the relevant parties prior to the formation of the Federation of Malaysia," he said. He said it is interesting to point out that one of the five Pakistani citizens charged with fake travel passes namely Ibrar Khan Ibrahim Khan had told Malanjum during the proceeding that he intended to get out from Sabah via Menumbok-Labuan. "This clearly shows that Menumbok is being exploited by foreigners such as Ibrar to enter or to come out from Sabah since there is no immigration checkpoint at that place. "Further, if he is all the while of full knowledge that his travel document is fake, he would not produce such document for inspection at any immigration checkpoint that conduct stringent examination of travel documents. "It now begs us to the think as how many foreigners are there in possession of fake travel documents or passports who managed to slip into Sabah via the Menumbok and Jesselton Point loophole," he said. Leiking stated if it is due to local human trafficking syndicate as stated by the Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, then over the period of several years, the Menumbok and Jesselton Point loophole may have allowed tens of thousands of foreigners with fake travel document or passport or worse, without any travel document at all to enter Sabah. "So, the call by Malanjum is wholeheartedly supported by all Sabahans and it is only apt that the Immigration Department together with the State Government immediately screen all Pakistani citizens in the State along with other immigrants if they are indeed in possession of genuine travel documents or not. "Thereafter, they must also set up an immigration checkpoint at Menumbok and Jesselton Point without any further delay," he said. "It is the obligation of the Immigration Department and the State Government to ensure our State's immigration sovereignty is being protected at all times and there should be no more dilly-dallying over this issue anymore," he said http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=98447

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