Affirmative actions on illegals — Warisan

KOTA KINABALU: Affirmative actions will be taken to overcome the influx of illegal immigrants to Sabah after the state government proposed to issue Special Pass to foreigners in the state.

Jo Nandu, the Political Assistant to Parti Warisan treasurer general Terrence Siambun, gave the assurance when advising the former candidate for Parliament Penampang, Cleftus Mojingol, to get his facts correct with regards to the proposal before making any criticism against Warisan leaders.

“Mojingol’s criticisms against Christopher Toguk Masudal who is the Special Officer to the Deputy President of Parti Warisan Sabah, Darell Leiking tells us just how much governance knowledge he (Mojingol) has,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Nandu added what Mojingol had said is nothing more than mere attempt to seek cheap political mileage.

“In his scathing attack against YB Darell Leiking and Warisan, Mojingol had said that the deputy president and the rest of the KadazanDusun leaders in the party have forsaken their obligations and responsibilities in ensuring the security and interests of the said community remained intact.

He said Christopher had correctly rebuked Mojingol for using racial sentiment in his attempt to create apprehension among the KadazanDusun communities over the said proposal instead of trying to understand the matter objectively.

“Due to his inability to comprehend the issue apart from making a racialcharged statement, it is only apt for Christopher to infer that Mojingol lacked the requisite qualities relating to administration and governance, so perhaps that is the reason why the KadazanDusun communities in Penampang rejected him in GE14,” he explained.

So it has nothing to do whether one has to be an election candidate or not in order to make a constructive criticism as Mojingol argued, he added.

Nandu also said that he noted that Mojingol decided to forgo his ‘KadazanDusun’ argument and listed several more new arguments.

“Surprisingly, he (Mojingol) decided to forgo his ‘KadazanDusun’ argument after receiving the rebuke from Christopher and we now know that Mojingol himself is uncertain whether the said KadazanDusun community is against the proposal to regulate the foreigners in Sabah.

“So it is amusing to see Mojingol continues criticizing Christopher in his subsequent statement through another sets of arguments that again highlight his (Mojingol) ignorance on the matter.”

Nandu said Mojingol had posed questions in relation to the existence of the illegal immigrants in Sabah and demanded them to give detailed explanation on the failure to take affirmative action on the issue as if Warisan had been holding power all the while.

“He should know it that Warisan had only recently taken over the State Government with the Wira chief, Dato Aziz Jamman had just assumed the post as Deputy Home Minister and the cataloguing of all the foreigners in Sabah through this ‘regularisation’ exercise is only one of the government’s efforts to identify and record as many foreigners in the State as possible.

“Thus, I can assure Sabahans, particularly the KadazanDusun community that there will be affirmative actions to overcome the influx of illegal immigrants to Sabah but we must strike a balance on this issue because our core industries are dependent on foreign labour force,” he concluded.