Leiking: Why RCI committee report on illegals still not out?

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah deputy president Darell Leiking has again questioned the delay by the permanent committee of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah to come up with the solution/ reports to the Federal Cabinet to resolve the problems of illegal immigrants who have obtained citizenship via the Malaysian national identity cards.

“What is really holding up the report by this permanent committee? Have they actually submitted their reports and solution?” has asked.

Leiking said some ‘dubious Malaysians’ who reportedly entered Sabah and received their instant citizenship have been hauled up in Peninsular Malaysia for crime activities.

“And to make it worse, some of them are already inside our security and defence agencies such as Rela,” he claimed.

He reiterated that the permanent committee, which is jointly headed by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi and Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Aman, must (if they have not done so already) quickly present the report to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his Federal Cabinet ministers for action and/or better still, to Parliament so that the highest law making body can enact laws appropriately to resolve this long outstanding problem in Sabah.

Leiking, who is the Penampang MP, added: “But in the event Federal Ministers from Sabah consisting of Sabah BN component parties face a hard time impressing Najib on this matter, then they could always say that Warisan leaders will be using this RCI issue against BN Sabah in the coming election, hence the need for Najib to come up with permanent and concrete actions relating to the existence of illegal immigrants in Sabah, instead of harping incessantly that they have been consistent on the PTI issue.”

Leiking also said the revelation relating to nonMalaysian citizens in Peninsular being involved in criminal-related activities necessitated the need for Sabah to come up with its own identity card.

“Zahid had replied to my question in the Dewan Rakyat, to the full knowledge of our BN Sabah MPs, that it is impossible for the Federal Government to recall all the MyKads in Sabah and reissue new MyKads to genuine Sabahans because of probable legal implications arising from that action.

“Thus, I have always maintained that the only way for state departments/ agencies and business communities in Sabah to ascertain whether the bearer of the identification card is genuine Malaysian citizens or not is through the issuance of our own Sabah identity card that will be a co-existing document to the present MyKads,” he said.