161. 38%

http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/07/26/38-of-people-in-sandakan-are-immigrants-rci-told/

38%-of-people-in-sandakan-are-immigrants-rci-told

by Murib Morp. Posted on July 26, 2013, Friday

KOTA KINABALU: The presence of a huge number of immigrants in Sandakan would have a significant impact on the development plans in the district, especially on the provisions of public utilities and infrastructures.
Sandakan Municipal Council’s (MPS) president Datuk James Wong, told the Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegal immigrants here that there were more than 170,000 foreigners in the district, many of whom are without proper documents.
Testifying at the public inquiry yesterday, Wong said the figure represented about 38 per cent of the total population of the 875 square miles district, which is depending mostly on agriculture and tourism.
“Almost 40 percent of the people in Sandakan are foreigners, both legal and illegal immigrants. This is a huge number and it more or less affect the planning of development in the area,” he said.
He noted that the earliest settlers in Sandakan were the Orang Sungai and Suluks as well as the Chinese, who came in from Hong Kong later during the Second World War era.
Today, however, a wide range of races and ethnics, including immigrants from various countries, make up the population of Sandakan.
He informed that many immigrants from the neighbouring countries, especially the Philippines, were still coming in to Sandakan illegally through the many back doors along the district’s coastlines.
He said immigrants sneak into Sandakan from the Philippines using at least 32 “jalan tikus” (secret routes), attracted by the promise of economic opportunities and employment in agriculture and construction sector.
“They cause many problems. They build squatter colonies and therefore contribute to uncleanliness and untreated sewerage issue, water and electricity theft.
“They are also involved in criminal activities and pose security threats. Many of them also conduct business without permits, selling products including illegal items along the walk path in town area and other places.
“Some of them are also involved in smuggling, even poaching of turtle eggs. This has been a serious problem that has been discussed by the enforcement agencies for many years,” he said.
Wong said the municipal council has been actively taking action to curb the most prominent problem related to the immigrants, namely their tendency to seek shelter in squatter colonies.
He said MPS enforcement personnel, assisted by enforcement officers from other agencies, from time to time raid and demolish illegal structures built by the immigrants.
He informed that there were 41 squatter colonies left in Sandakan, after MPS demolished the entire houses in two colonies. In total, over 4,800 houses has been demolished by MPS between 2005 and May this year.
A recent census conducted under the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOMM) initiative found that there were 7,620 houses in the remaining colonies.
More than half or 3,936 of these houses belong to immigrants, involving 20,050 occupants.
Wong proposed that there should a clear-cut policy and well-planned action for dealing with squatter colonies that cover various agencies.
He noted that problems usually arise when squatters build their houses on different lands such as river riparian reserve, state land and so on that falls under the jurisdiction of different agencies.
Wong was the last witness for the session which ended yesterday. The inquiry has heard testimonies from 197 individuals so far and is expected to call in at least 10 more witnesses when it resumes its hearing on August 15.

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160.'PBS shown Umno forms as part of dubious IC give-out'

'PBS shown Umno forms as part of dubious IC give-out'

Malaysiakini – 8 hours ago

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SABAH RCI Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) officials were shown Umno application forms by sources who claimed that the forms were part of the clandestine mass issuance of illegal identity cards.

PBS vice-president Radin Malleh ( right ) testified to the royal commission of inquiry on illegal immigrants in Sabah that he had himself seen those forms, which included a photograph and a thumbprint of the applicant.
He said the informant, who he met sometime between 1994 and 1999, also showed him Persatuan Bugis forms, which were allegedly used for the same purpose.
"The informant showed me forms with pictures and thumbprints, and I assumed it was true, that they used the picture and thumprint to make blue ICs," Radin said.
However, to a question from Sabah Law Association representative Yunof Maringking, Radin said he was "not implicating Umno or Persatuan Bugis" in the illegal mass issuance of blue ICs.
"I just saw the forms said to be used to give pictures and thumbprints. I'm not sure if they were used to get the ICs, but according to that source, they were," he said.
Radin said his sources claimed that the move was part of one 'Ops Gembleng' that involved a group of National Registration Department (NRD) officers who were placed at "specific districts" for the purpose of issuing ICs illegally.
'Declarations backdated'
He testified that Ops Gembleng was also involved the backdating of false declarations ( sijil akuan ) declaring foreigners as Sabah-born for the purpose of issuing the illegal ICs.
"Some say they are born in Tenom or in Rundum, when these people probably have never been to Rundum, and these declarations were backdated to 1987 to obtain ICs," he said.
Radin, who was then PBS secretary-general, said he had also received a letter via post, which included 12 fake ICs and a list of NRD officers said to be involved in Ops Gembleng.
"(The list) was real. Between 1995 and 1996, those with the names listed (in the letter) were arrested by the police and detained under the Internal Security Act," he said.
To a question from conducting officer Jamil Aripin, Radin, who is now Sabah Rural Development Minister, admitted that he could not verify the information he received but believes that the sources are genuine.
"One of them was a medical doctor from Kampung Air... He is a Sabahan Indian. He told me of a Muslim Indian national who received an IC within a few days of arriving.
"He convulsed into tears when he told me. I asked him why, since that person is his Indian brother, but he said: "But I am Sabahan and he is depriving me of my opportunities," Radin said, and he urged the RCI to call the doctor as a witness.

159. good to expose the very big CRIMINAL

http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/07/24/sabah-cm-denies-claims-linking-him-to-task-force-project-ic-via-proxy/

Sabah CM denies claims linking him to Task Force Project IC via proxy

by Murib Morpi. Posted on July 24, 2013, Wednesday

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KOTA KINABALU: The Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegal immigrants in Sabah yesterday heard a deposition that Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman has denied all allegations linking him to Project IC made by a witness in its proceeding last week.
Former State Attorney General, Datuk Anthony Roderick Fernandez, appeared before the commission and informed the five-men panel that he was representing Musa to file an application for notes of proceeding pertaining to the allegation.
“A witness, Dr Chong Eng Leong, has made some serious allegations against the Chief Minister. I would like for it to be noted that my client denies every allegation on his involvement in Project IC,” he said.
Fernandez also told the Commission that Musa will decide on his next course of action after reading the extract and may elect to appear before the panel to give his own testimony.
Dr Chong, a former senator and state assemblyman, testified last week that Musa had led a Sabah Umno task force to find foreigners to be registered as party members to vote for Barisan Nasional. He claimed to have received this information from one Jabar Khan, who was the secretary of the said task force formed in 1991.
Commission chairman Tan Sri Steve Shim, granted Fernandez’s application, saying the extract on the notes of proceeding will be given to be examined by the Chief Minister.
Meanwhile, conducting officer, Manoj Kurup, informed the panel that Dr Chong has made a request following his testimony last week to have a bundle of supporting documents submitted as evidence and examined by the Commission.
“We have looked through the bundles and decided that two of them, which contain a collection of newspaper cuttings and exhibits from the Likas election petition, were relevant and shall be marked as exhibits for this Inquiry,” said Manoj.
The Commission resumed its proceedings with three more witnesses called to testify yesterday, bringing the total to 192 so far.
At least six more witnesses are expected to be called in the next two days, including Melalap assemblyman cum Rural Development Minister Datuk Radin Malleh.

158. CRIMINALS AT WORK

sure the BIGGEST traitor/robber/land grabber /corrupted/ women grabber/ and you name it what else- in Sabah and gang of conmen.  Joshua

Musa Aman denies any role in 'Project IC'

Malaysiakini – 17 hours ago

SABAH RCI Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman has informed the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into illegal immigrants in Sabah that he had no involvement in the so-called Project IC, as claimed by a witness last week.

"Last Thursday, Dr Chong Eng Leong made serious allegations linking my client to Project IC.
"I have been instructed to inform that he (Musa, right ) denies any involvement in the alleged Project IC," the chief minister's lawyer Roderic Fernandez told the RCI sitting in Kota Kinabalu today.
Fernandez, who is a former Sabah attroney-general, said Musa had also instructed him to hold a watching brief and to request for the notes of proceedings pertaining to the allegation by Chong.
Fernandez said Musa would decide his next course of action after he is able to peruse the notes of proceedings.
The application was granted by RCI chairperson Steve Shim, who instructed the RCI secretariat to extract portions pertaining to the allegation for Musa to make a decision on what he wanted to do.
'Musa chaired Umno task force to register foreigners'
Last week, Chong, a former Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) politician who authored a book on Project IC, testified that Musa chaired a task force back in 1991 that was designed to register foreigners as Umno members after giving them Malaysian citizenship.
"When Umno first entered Sabah, this task force was formed, and the chief was none other but Musa Aman himself," Chong had told the RCI.
Speaking to reporters later, DAP assemblyperson for Likas Junz Wong, who was in the public gallery, said it would be in the people's interest for Musa to testify before the RCI to clear his name.
"The RCI should decide (whether to call Musa as a witness or not but) he has a social and political responsibility to come clean," Wong said outside the Kota Kinabalu High Court complex, where the RCI is sitting.
Meanwhile, in his testimony today, 192nd witness Ismail Mohd Yakub from the Tawau Municipal Council said that 40 percent of Tawau residents are non-citizens.
Basing this on the council's 2010 census, he said the immigrants have good relations with Sabahans, as most of them have adopted the local lifestyle.
"That's why it's not a big problem that 41 percent of people in Tawau are non-citizens.
"Plus, the local culture is highly tolerant," he said.

157. Musa is a traitor fit to be done with

Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:23

Musa Aman involved in 'Project IC', RCI told 

 

SABAH RCI Current Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman also allegedly had a hand in ‘Project IC’, the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) was told today.
Dr Chong Eng Leong, a former Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) politician who authored a book about Project IC, claimed that Musa chaired a task force back in 1991 which was designed to register foreigners as Umno members after giving them citizenship.
When Umno first entered Sabah, this task force was formed, and the chief was none other but Musa Aman himself,” Chong said during proceedings today.
Similar to a claim made by Sabah opposition politician Jeffrey Kitingan yesterday at the RCI, Chong also said that the project IC exercise was done in order to increase the Muslim population in Sabah.
“This has nothing to do with race or religion. This is pure politics,” he said, noting that a sharp increase in the Malay population is Sabah allowed Umno to take foothold of Sabah.
According to Chong, between 1970 and 2000, in a span of 30 years, the Malay population in Sabah saw a sharp growth rate of 1,552 percent.
This is almost 10 times the growth rate of the Kadasan, Dusun, and Murut native communities, and also significantly higher than the 344 percent growth posted by the Bajau community.
Chong said that this growth cannot be attributed to the rural Sabahans registering themselves late due to a previous lack of access to government offices.
“If that was true, why is there no sharp increase in the Kadazan, Dusun and Murut communities?” he asked.
“Why is the Malay population growing the highest?” he said.
He said that Umno had already “achieved its target” in boosting the population, because the state now has 33 Muslim-majority state seats, which is more than the number of Chinese majority and non-Muslim bumiputra majority seats.
- Malaysiakini

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156. IC for voting only

Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:25

'Project IC' immigrants could only use IC for voting

SABAH RCI Some illegal immigrants have complained to the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) that the identity cards handed over to them could only be used for “voting alone”, the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into immigrants in Sabah was told today.
Former Suhakam vice-chairperson Simon Sipaun told the commission that he had come across several such complaints from immigrants themselves.
“He (an immigrant) told me that the IC is useless beyond voting. It can only be used to vote. He can’t travel because the IC doesn’t get him past airport immigration,” he said.
He also said that Suhakam had received complaints from such immigrants, who said that while they managed to obtain citizenship documents, their children are not being given documents despite applying.
“They admitted to me that they were not born here and didn’t have documentation when they got their documents,” he said.
“They told me they got the IC from a certain project,” he added.
Similar to claims made by Sabah politicians this week - namely Jeffrey Kitingan and Dr Chong Eng Leong, Simon also held the opinion that the awarding of citizenship to immigrants was related to the government’s alleged intent to make Sabah “a Muslim state”.
“I got the impression that the federal government was uncomfortable with the fact that the state was being led by a non-Muslim,” he said.
He also said that if the government knows how to create the problem, it should also know how to “solve the problem”.
He warned that if the problem of immigrants becoming Sabahans is not addressed soon enough, “the future of Sabah will inevitably fall into their hands”.
“Eventually, they will infiltrate our politics and elect someone of their own kind. I hope this doesn’t happen,” he said.
Simon was also a former state secretary of Sabah between 1988 to 1993.
- Malaysiakini

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154. RCI from 15th July

Sabah Illegal Immigrant RCI Proceedings To Resume July 15

KOTA KINABALU, July 12 (Bernama) -- The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah will resume its proceedings in two sessions from July 15 to 19, and July 22 to 25.

RCI secretary Datuk Saripuddin Kasim said the proceedings would be resumed at the Federal Court here.

So far 171 witnesses have testified before the commission during eight sessions since January, he said in a statement here Friday.