Signature drive by SAPP

Published on Daily Express on Wenesday, February 16, 2011

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Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Youth is starting a campaign targeting 100,000 signatures to demand the setting up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the perennial illegal immigrant problem in Sabah.
SAPP Youth Chief Edward Dagul said the movement demanded that the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) be set up soon as possible so that this problem is resolved once and for all.
He said the month-long campaign would culminate in a gathering where leaders would be invited as guest speakers.
"We shall be seeking the cooperation of all NGOs and like-minded political parties for this mammoth task. It is important to show the leaders, especially the Federal leaders, of Sabahans feelings to this 'Mother of all threats'," he said.
Dagul said SAPP Youth found Datuk Hishamuddin Tun Hussein as the Minister of Home Affairs statement that there will be no setting up of a Royal commission of Inquiry as too dismissive and not at all sympathetic to the plight of Sabahans.
"Despite the current uproar regarding the Akjan Sultan of Sulu case, where this is seen to be a direct result of the PTI issue, SAPP Youth finds it unbelievable that the Minister still does not see through the serious nature of this problem," he said.
Further, he said the statement of the Minister that the findings of the so called special laboratories for the PTI issue has been submitted to the State Government for consideration are deemed as "passing the buck."
"Many are of the opinion that there are no such proposals.
That the response by the Minister was an afterthought.
Why were these proposals not disclosed by the Chief Minister beforehand when the issue first came to the light?" he asked.