PBS reneged on promises, claims Henrynus

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Kerjasama Anak Negeri (Anak Negeri) has criticised PBS for absolving itself of blame on the failure of the federal government to act on the report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants problem in Sabah.

Its chief Datuk Henrynus Amin said PBS seemed to have forgotten its own promises, especially its ultimatum in 2012, to force the formation of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegal immigrants.

He claimed PBS leaders today were eerily quiet, evasive and seemingly to have abandoned efforts to pursue the federal action on the problem of illegal immigration and fraudulent identity cards.

At the opening of the joint-annual general meeting of PBS Matunggong recently, PBS secretary general Datuk Johnny Mositun had denied allegations that the federal government was insincere in implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah.

Mositun argued that the delay was due to the need for a comprehensive and effective plan of action to resolve a complicated problem that goes back several decades and that it was an inherited problem that did not lend itself to any hasty or knee-jerk solution.

Henrynus said Mositun’s explanation on the matter was insincere, pathetic, seriously flawed and therefore unacceptable.

He said PBS’ justification for federal inaction showed that PBS totally misunderstood the popular sentiments of the people of Sabah.

He claimed Mositun’s statements clearly proved PBS had indeed reneged on its own promises and the party was only pretending to bark but had no intention to bite.

He said the truth was that PBS had lost its direction and its existence no longer served the purpose for which it was originally formed.

“PBS is no longer the PBS we once knew as it has forgotten itself and is now floating far out in the open seas without a steering wheel dictated mainly by the will of its political master.”