Wednesday, April 6, 2011

50,000 Sabahans want RCI on illegals

Sabah opposition party SAPP is bent on convincing NGOs and political groups across the divide to back calls for Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegals

Some 50,000 Malaysian citizens in Sabah have signed a petition demanding that the federal government set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the state.

The petition is to be handed to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak or his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin during the current parliamentary sitting.

Sabah Progressive Peoples Party (SAPP) said the petition was signed by 50,000 Malaysians who also gave their IC numbers.

Its Youth division chief Edward Dagul said that the signatures would only be handed to Najib or his deputy and they would be expecting a definitive answer from either of them.

"If I fail to give it to the prime minister or deputy prime minister, I will wait for another time to hand it to him, when they come to the state or during the next parliamentary sitting (in June).

"In the meantime, we will carry on and discuss with the other parties on the opposition front to make this a project for Sabahan youths until we get a definitive answer from the prime minister himself saying 'No, we will not have an RCI for this'… then I will leave it up to the people of Sabah to judge.

"Even after we hand over the petition, the initiative will not end there. We hope to include other parties and NGOs which are in favour of this (campaign).

"We are not compartmentalising people into political leanings," he told FMT.

Spin-off problem

Dagul said that they also planned to hand copies of the signed petition to Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman during the coming State Legislative Assembly sitting.

He said more than 50,000 signatures had been collected statewide but due to logistical problems they were not included.

"According to the secretariat (of the drive), there are probably another 20,000 more signatures," he said, adding that though they had missed the target by half, those who signed were from across the political spectrum.

"We know that Upko, in principle, is fighting for the same thing because it is frustrated by the attitude of the federal government which is not even willing to look into setting up the RCI," he said.

Dagul said that the Youth division had started the signature drive in early March after they had lodged a police report against Sulu Sultan Mohd Akjan Ali Muhammad whom they see as a spin-off problem of the illegal immigrants in Sabah, among many others.

However, Dagul also said that the campaign faced obstacles in the east coast where there was a higher concentration of illegal immigrants.

"Most of the signatures we collected were in Kota Kinabalu, the west coast and in Sandakan.

"Those who refused to sign were somehow linked to the government or whose family members are in public service and fear that they would be reprisal if they signed the petition," he said.

SAPP team threatened

The SAPP team was also unable to visit certain places due to logistic problems and in some cases they were threatened with physical violence.

"In Tawau, we paid to use the space at a building but we were asked to leave when they found out what we were doing.

"The fishmongers in the Penampang fish market also threaten to beat us if we held the drive there.

"If this happens over a signature drive, what more if it's something more concrete or serious?

"They dare to do this here; there's a real concern. This is a threat to national security and sovereignty. Everyone is expressing concern but why is it not being looked into?" he said.

Meanwhile, Dagul said that the SAPP Youth division would be sending teams to Sarawak to aid opposition parties while at the same time observing and learning from the state polls, in preparation for the general election.

"Our stand is that we will support persons or political parties whose common objective is to bring down the BN government," he said.

On the disagreement between Sarawak Nasional Party (SNAP) and PKR, Dagul said that he hoped there would be no misunderstanding as SAPP would not be involved in resolving their issues.

"It is a concern for us but we do not want to be part of that.

"We are not here to solve your problems but we will help you to get rid of BN in whatever capacity we can.

"That is the objective and it should be the common objective. We are still hopeful they can come to some amicable arrangement," he said.

52 comments:

  1. 50,000 signature, does that includes the online petition? Can Sarawakians and West Malaysians sign the petition too?

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  2. Hope that the Federal government will approve the RCI. Anyway good luck to the Sabahans.

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  3. the sabahan support the RCI.

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  4. It is obvious that Sabahans wanted the RCI to as soon to be implemented.

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  5. The govt should consider whether to have it or not...

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  6. The Federal Government should practice more alertness on this case.

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  7. We must fight for RCI, but we must also understand that RCI cannot solve all the problems. Some other measures must be used to tackle the illegal immigrants issue.

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  8. Kami di sini, sebulat suara ingin meminta kerajaan persekutuan untuk mempertimbangkan RCI.

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  9. hope this problem will be solved

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  10. PATI bring a lot of problems for us.

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  11. RCI wouldn't do much in helping solve the illegal immigrant issue but it's worth the try.

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  12. 咱们要的事,正经的解决方法。而不是随意说说而已。我们受够了啦。难道还要吞着苦药不死吗?

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  13. Hopefully the government would consider setting up the RCI in sabah.

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  14. Apakah Sabah mampu mengecapi 0% PTI pada masa depan?

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  15. RCI is the effort to solve immigrant problem in Sabah. hope the government can consider.

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  16. In this, mere hope is not enough but just have to make sure the RCI sure be a 'yes' reply!

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  17. Quoted:"Our stand is that we will support persons or political parties whose common objective is to bring down the BN government," he said.
    "We are not here to solve your problems but we will help you to get rid of BN in whatever capacity we can.


    Learn smarter friend!
    Is this political talk again...Najib will not like it for RCI appeal,right?

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  18. Would be good if the government approve the proposal to set up the RCI.

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  19. We just wait what the Federal govt can do for RCI suggestion..

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  20. any efforts to solve the illegal immigrant issue are welcome by sabahan.

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  21. federal govt now can prove that they are concern about sabah by approving the RCI to solve the issue.

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  22. this is a national security issue..it will be odd if federal govt refuse to form the RCI..

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  23. hope the federal govt will approve the RCI..

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  24. and SAPP please don't use this as a political tools..people gave their support by signed the petition so that the govt will approve the RCI..remember that..

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  25. Tanpa mengambil kira kepentingan politik masing2, saya yakin ramai yang mahukan RCI ditubuhkan utk tanggani isu pati.

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  26. Tak dinafikan RCI belum tentu dapat menyelesaikan isu pati yang kian berleluasa, namun tidak salah jika mencuba.

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  27. Jika belum ada langkah yang lebih praktikal, mungkin ada juga baikknya RCI dipertimbangkan.

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  28. Semoga kerajaan dapat mempertimbangkan perkara ini sewajarnya. Jika masih ditolak, berilah penjelasan yang mampu memuaskan semua pihak.

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  29. Apapun, saya yakin kerajaan pasti membuat keputusan yang terbaik dalam hal ini :)

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  30. This matter must be resolved and if the government had been sincere in this issue....it won't need political parties, ngos and the people to support RCI which is overdue.

    If there is a political will of the federal and state governments, what is so difficult??? Unless it is to serve them in their evil political plan to dominate the political landscape and racial denomination in Sabah.

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  31. We need RCI even more than anything in today's Malaysia. Wouldn't you see that? Many things have been overlooked because of corrupted practice or mismanagement!

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  32. RCI masih dalam perbincangan. Kita tunggu saja adakah akan dilaksanakan atau tidak.

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  33. How will the inquiry will going to be conducted? is it going to be conducted just as the Teoh Beng Hok RCI? who will be responded to the query then?

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  34. not only RCI, but all methods suggested by politicians or public's should be used.. we need to fight to solve this problem aggressively.

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  35. The Federal should grant Sabah the RCI for the illegal immigrants.

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  36. ............ and what will happen after the RCI?
    NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  37. We have to support RCI for the future well being of Sabah!!

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  38. What has been done by SAPP is actually good, it will show that Sabahan actually did care about what is actually happening around them...

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  39. Edward Dagul is this what the situation in Sabah now you try to express?

    Sabah population (all counting heads) now about 3.2 million.
    Actual sabahan's should suppose be 1.5 million today.
    Thus, we have another 1.7 million whereby out of the 1.7 million we found 600,000 have been given paper or have records. The other 1.1 million are suppose without any document or dubious!!!
    Compare 1.1M out of actual 1.5M what percentage?
    and,
    Compare even the 600,000 with document out of 1.5M again what percentage?
    Also, combine 1.7M out of 1.5M the present statistic is again what percentage?
    Hell of porblem and a must for RCI to clear it up,right?

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  40. To: Sinchew's reporter

    1.7M are dubious meaning to be checked their status.But 600,000 within 1.7M have been given status or record.How nobody know?
    Actual only about 1.5M are malaysian sabahan recorded we a total of 3.2M now!

    Is this all about?

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  41. Harap RCI ini akan diluluskan oleh kerajaan.

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  42. SUPP kalah tidak malu tapi bikin malu kalo masih dlm BN sebab org tionghua disalahkan tidak sokong BN utama oleh MCA Chua So Lick!
    Sarawakian apa kato kamu?

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  43. hope RCI will be approved by the government and no more illegal immigrants.

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  44. Up to 22-04-2011, nothing happened..so what next? Datuk YTL, what next? 50 thousand signed, what next? sit down and waiting what next? if nothing happens before GE13, just consider SAPP just lost 50 thousand votes! Congrats!!!!

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  45. There is too much at risk for BN to approve RCI becoz many of their leaders are involved in this treason act...Only way is to kick them out for good.

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  46. What will happen if the federal does not approve it?

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  47. Harap semuanya berjalan lancar.

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  48. Kerajaan sekarang macam hanya tahu setuju segala tindakan dari semenanjung.Mereka ini langsung tiada kuasa biar dlm peringkat negeri hanya tahu cakap 'yes boss' saja.
    Umno memang sudah pegang kuasa macam orang putih satu ketika dahulu.
    Kalo RCI tidak jadi maka orang sabah patut buat perubahan terus diPRU 13 akan datang.

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  49. If we cannot move Federal gov, Boleh kah kita pressure kerajaan negeri buat suruhanjaya siasatan pasal PTI..sebab kerajaan negeri pun ada kuasa pasal masalah imigration...SAPP, any chance?

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  50. Kita perlu mengesa kerajaan pusat untuk meluluskan RCI ini.

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