KOTA KINABALU: Police are waiting for official directive from Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman on the curfew which will be implemented in several areas following the Tuesday kidnapping case in Lahad Datu.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said a thorough discussion with the relevant parties would be held together with the Chief Minister once a directive is issued.
“Details of the curfew will only be known later,” he said yesterday.
Hamza added that among the issues that would be raised are how, where and when it would be implemented.
The State Government has on Tuesday, decided to take steps to further increase the security level along the east coast of Sabah following the kidnapping of a fish farm manager at Pulau Baik, near Pulau Mataking in Lahad Datu.
Musa said that among the preventive measures taken were the setting up of a forward base at strategic areas to monitor the security and safety of the state and imposing curfew at all high-risk areas where all activities will be banned.
The preventive measures were made following the kidnapping of Yang Zai Lin, 34, from Guangzhao, the fish farm manager of Wonderful Terrace Company by five armed men believed to be from a kidnap-for-ransom (KFR) group from the Philippines at around 2.45am on May 6.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Hamza also said that police believed an inside job might have been behind the kidnapping of Yang.
This was made following the detention of 19 workers from the fish farm in Pulau Baik to facilitate police investigation and to establish whether any of those detained had given information to the kidnappers prior to the incident. Of the 19 arrested, 11 are Suluks while the rest are Indonesians.