KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) calls on Malaysians living in Sabah to come out in full force to support its ongoing signature campaign to demand for the Government to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to resolve the perennial illegal immigrants and ‘dubious citizens’ issue.
The signature campaign which was launched last week, is targeting at 100,000 signatures, before it ends this March.
To date, SAPP has collected more than 11,000 signatures statewide
The party’s Api-Api youth chief, Pang Thien Fook, stressed that each and every Malaysian regardless of whether they were born in Sabah or not, but so long as they are currently living in Sabah, should come forward to support the signature campaign for the sake of the sovereignty and future of this country.
He said this is important as the issue had existed for close to three decades now and had adversely affected the politics and socio-economy of Sabah in particular, and Malaysia as a whole.
“It is an undeniable fact that the continuous presence of huge number of ‘dubious citizens’ in the state who are originally illegal immigrants from the neighbouring countries like Philippines and Indonesia who became citizens through dubious means, had significantly eroded or usurped the rights of the bona fide citizens in many aspects, from politics to socio-economy. Besides, there is also constant danger of the sovereignty and security of this country being compromised at any time,” he pointed out in a statement yesterday.
Pang noted that thesignature campaign was largely prompted by the gross indifference of the Federal government towards the plight of Sabahans over the perennial issue, as demonstrated by the recent statement of Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Tun Hussein who said there is no need for the setting up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry for the perennial issue.
The petition is also available online at: www.petitiononline.com/pati.