Be careful of ads offering lucrative salaries — Dawos
Posted on January 25, 2012, Wednesday
KUCHING: At least four Bidayuh youths have been exploited to become drug mules by the so-called employers in the peninsula.
The shocking revelation was made by Mambong MP Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit, who said that all of them were from villages in his constituency.
According to him, the quartet was ‘employed’ to bring drugs to Thailand from Perlis through ‘jalan tikus’ and Singapore by swallowing the capsules.
One of them died when the capsules burst inside his stomach, while one had returned to his village after experiencing the ordeal.
“It is sad to note that the community (Bidayuh) has been exploited to becoming drug mules … the four persons that I know is only a tip of the iceberg,” the Deputy Tourism Minister
said.
In view of this, he strongly advised parents to be very careful about advertisements, especially from the Peninsula which offer lucrative remunerations.
He was speaking at Dayak Bidayuh National Association (DBNA) NCR Land Documentation Registration Extract presentation at Kampung Petag, about 34 kilometers from here.
The event was officiated by Minister of Infrastructure Development and Communication Dato Sri Michael Manyin Jawong.
Dawos also mentioned the case of Beatrice Laus Johie who was conned into becoming a drug mule by her South African boyfriend, and also the latest female victim from a village in Padawan.
“This must become a lesson to us all, especially parents to keep a close watch on our children, especially the girls,” he
stressed.
constituency to be mobilised and monitor if any South African nationals were loitering in the area and may be looking for victims.
Dawos also said it has come to his intention that a Bidayuh woman in the Peninsula has been introducing women from her own community to befriend strangers, especially South Africans, and was still free.
He said he knew the family, adding that the police was keeping track on her movement.
