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‘Meaningless betrayal in action over illegal immigrants in Sabah’

Are we concerned about certain headlines in the press and mass media of late?

Amongst several, these stated, ‘We’ll defend every inch of Sabah, vows Najib’ (Daily Express May 29, 2016), ‘Better not to marry illegals’ (Daily Express July 3, 2016), ‘50% of complaints over documents’ (Borneo Post Aug 18, 2016), ‘Threat to Sabah security no longer contained to its east coast’ (New Strait Times March 5, 2016), ‘A case of false patriotism?’ (Daily Express, Aug 19, 2016), and another prominent one from the ex-premier ‘Mahathir Mohamad on corruption and ‘saving Malaysia’’ (Al Jazeera June 24, 2016).

So what is the state of the nation now when we have such frightening or threatening messages? These are really clarion calls that we are in a mess due to the fundamental abuses in our national identity cards and the so-called Project IC to hundreds of thousands, and now allegedly reaching millions, considering all those children born in Sabah and Malaysia for decades.

Many have written much about the massive abuses and I have also done my part in several publications on the extra people Identity cards (EPIC of Sabah).

Are we not in a perilous security environment which has obvious getting out of hand even after the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants Sabah (RCI IIS) 2012 till now? We do not have any solution from the RCIIIS, although so much was told over the hearings.

It would appear we are really stuck with the millions of illegal with dubious documents or otherwise. The ugly manifestations are now conveyed in the headlines ‘50% of complaints over documents’ where many are totally not qualified to get the genuine documents as human rights are not borderless as far as citizenship is concerned, and ‘A case of false patriotism’ where the illegals are just bidding their time, and ‘Better not to marry illegals’ when many are entangled in relationship with illegals.

From the RCIIIS hearings, we know the confirmed leaders near and far were involved with Project IC albeit much denials, so much so that we are still in a dilemma over the presence of illegals with or without whatever questioned documents despite much expectation of the RCIIIS since 2012.

Wasn’t Megat Junid Megat Ayob the deputy home minister in Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s cabinet for 11 years, and was so often mentioned as the alleged front man for the alleged Project IC?

Former state assemblyperson Dr Chong Eng Leong mentioned Chief Minister Musa Aman as allegedly being involved with Project IC in the RCIIIS and the CM intervened in the hearing session, but there was silence therefrom. Why?

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who ordered the RCIIIS, appears to have forgotten about that as he has become mired with 1MDB, and yet he dared to say “We’ll defend every inch of Sabah, vows Najib”, when their actions and omissions and deliberate forgetfulness have allegedly handed over Sabah and the sovereignty of the nation to the neighbouring nation or nations slowly but surely when the local genuine people are outnumbered by the ‘outsiders’.

Mahathir should also search his conscience as to how he can save Malaysia with his declaration thereof supported by sort of a million of signatures, when it is getting nearer to hand over Sabah to outsiders as a scenario of the ‘Trojan horse’ allegedly established in his 22 years of leadership.

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