Warisan denies reports of helping illegals get MyKad

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah continues to deny viral reports that it is behind a move to help illegal immigrants get MyKad, calling for the public mobile service programmes not to be politicised.

Parti Warisan Sabah permanent chairman Datuk Liew Vui Keong said it only organised these public mobile service programmes to meet the people and attend to their grouses.

A recent viral report that a service held at Terminal Batu Sapi in Sandakan was to help illegal immigrants get citizenship was not true, he added.

“The public mobile service programme should not be politicised.

“It is not a new thing as it was also organised by the previous government,” said Liew, who is also Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

Blaming the opposition for making the issue viral, he claimed that there were individuals who had come forward with letters for various applications in identical format at three of the mobile service programmes it had held since the May 9 polls.

“I decided to ask where they got the letters as I was curious because many of them are illiterate,” he said.

“I was shocked to learn that they had their letters done in town and paid certain people from RM10 to RM100 to type a simple letter or fill certain forms,” he said, adding that he had directed his staff to investigate and lodge police reports if necessary.

Liew also refuted Tawau Umno Youth chief Ghazalie Ansing’s allegation that Warisan had recently organised “political motivated” programmes in schools on citizenship after a photo of a banner went viral.