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BN secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor has denied that the coalition issued identity cards to foreigners, as alleged in a video he received yesterday.
Instead, Tengku Adnan claimed, the video clip came from the opposition and it was sent to him anonymously through the smartphone application WhatsApp. The video is already available on YouTube.
“We didn’t do that… don’t they have better things to do? This is a dirty tactic,” he said when contacted yesterday.
The 59-second clip shows a group of persons – purportedly Bangladeshis – running while shouting “police!” several times, among other scenes.
It then shows the group apparently squatting on the ground after being arrested, but a police officer approaches them and says, “Why run? I just want to give identity cards.”
“The voice (in the video) is not from the police, but someone else,” said Tengku Adnan, who is also known as ‘Ku Nan’.
The video clip also shows the words “You help me, I help you” during the scene where the identity cards are handed over.
This is followed with the words “Don’t be surprised, under BN even foreign workers can vote” in the next scene. The clip then ends with the words “Say ‘no’ to BN” alongside a crossed-out image of the BN flag.
Umno added the word ‘slander’
Malaysiakini obtained a copy the original version of the video from Tengku Adnan, as well as the other version uploaded on YouTube that has the word “Slander” superimposed throughout the video.
Tengku Adnan admitted that the word “slander” was added by Umno for the YouTube version.
The edited video also ends with the words “This is the work of those who are desperate to gain power.”
Umno sec-gen livid over video linking BN to Project IC
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Red IC-holder says voted three times in Sabah
KOTA KINABALU, Feb 23 – A businessman with foreign parents told the royal inquiry on illegal immigrants today that he registered as a voter in 1991 using a red identity card (IC) and has voted three times in Sabah.
Omar Mohd Subair, who testified that he was born in Sabah in 1954, said he had received a red IC, which is issued for permanent residents, in 1985.
“In 1991, after you got your birth certificate, you tried to change to a blue IC, but the National Registration Department (NRD) gave you a receipt that had your red IC number and a 12-digit number,” said conducting officer Jamil Aripin at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) hearing here.
“With that receipt, you registered as a voter. You voted in 1994, 1999 and 2004,” he added, to which Omar agreed.
Omar, however, said his name had been removed from the electoral roll for Election 2008 and the approaching Election 2013.
Red IC-holder says voted three times in Sabah
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Proceedings by the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah will be held at the Federal Court, Kota Kinabalu Court Complex in Sabah for five days starting Monday, 14 January 2012.
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The National Registration Department (NRD) said today there are some 600 problematic blue identity card numbers that are being shared by more than one person.
“Yes, they are in our records, about 600 of them,” NRD headquarters identity card division director Md Solehan Omar testified at the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah.
Solehan said this when asked by conducting officer Manoj Kurup as to whether the allegations that more than one person were using the same identity card number were true.
However, Solehan did not elaborate on the matter as neither the conducting officers, nor the watching brief lawyers pressed him on this issue.
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Soon after 54-year-old Pakistani national Prabesh Khan Hussein Khan arrived in Sabah in 1992, he was told that Pakistani, Indian, Indonesian and Filipino nationals can get Malaysian citizenship easily.
A Pakistani comrade by the name of Ikram told Prabesh that he (Ikram) could make this possible for a mere RM330, Prabesh told the royal commission of inquiry on Sabah immigrants today.
Prabesh then filled up a yellow National Registration Department form, placed his thumb print on the document and submitted it to Ikram together with eight photographs.
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An Indian national obtained Malaysian citizenship from the Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) by simply using a false statutory declaration, the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into Sabah immigrants was told today.
Nur Mohd Ibrahim, who hails from Tamil Nadu, India, said he entered Sabah in 1981 and soon after applied for a blue identity card on the urging of Filipino colleagues at a restaurant where he worked.
However, his first application using a false SD was rejected.
In 1983, he tried his luck again, using the same method, and was granted a blue identity card in 1987. This was merely six years after he had set foot on Malaysian soil.
The SD stated that Nur Mohd was born in Kinarut, Papar.
NRD man got RM1m for letting immigrants vote, RCI told
UPDATED @ 05:22:44 PM 29-01-2013
By Boo Su-Lyn
January 29, 2013
The Sabah RCI was told that a former NRD director got RM1 million via the sale of 16,000 NRD receipts that enabled immigrants in Sabah to vote.
KOTA KINABALU, Jan 29 – A then-Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) director sold 16,000 NRD receipts for more than RM1million that enabled immigrants in Sabah to vote, the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants heard today.
Special Branch (SB) officer DSP Badaruddin Ismail, who works in Kelantan, testified today that Ramli Kamarudin sold each receipt for RM250 between 1993 and 1995 to illegal immigrants from the Philippines, India, Pakistan and other countries.
“He (Ramli) said he just did it for the money,” Badaruddin told the RCI here today.
Badaruddin, who had interrogated Ramli, stressed that Ramli said he had done so on his own accord for personal gain without instructions from higher authorities.
Ramli, however, told the RCI recently that then-Deputy Home Minister, the late Tan Sri Megat Junid Megat Ayub, had ordered him to issue NRD receipts, which matched the names and IC numbers of registered voters, to immigrants.
Ramli has said that about 200 NRD receipts were issued in five or six state constituencies, which the government considered difficult to win, before the 1994 state election.
You help me… I give you IC
A Youtube video, uploaded recently, pokes fun at Project IC showing Bangladeshis waving MyKads, with Najib’s infamous “You help me, I help you” quote played repeatedly.
PETALING JAYA: After creating parody videos on a pro-Umno woman, Sharifah Zohra Jabeen Syed Shah Miskin, talking down on undergraduate, KS Bawani, Internet users have now set their eyes on “Project IC” and Barisan Nasional.
In a Youtube video, video maker Nasi Kandar 1957 alleged that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is giving out citizenships to foreigners to retain power in exchange for votes.
“While former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had given citizenships to thousands of foreigners in Sabah to stay in power, Najib is now doing the same in the whole country,” said the video maker.
The video, which runs for about 50 seconds, starts off with Najib’s infamous “You help me and I help you” quote which was said at the Sibu by-election in 2010.
With the narration going on, several Bangladeshis shown in the video are seen smiling while waving MyKads, presumably getting them after helping BN.
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Just a web of lies and even ‘ivy league’ Ministers themselves are due for re-education. RCI proves that they are all liars. EC issuing instructions on IC issuance… so EC knows how many foreigners given right to vote.
Last year, Nazri came out in force to deny allegations that foreigners in Malaysia have been allowed to register as voters for the national polls.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/219310
DAP has slammed former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s defence that his predecessor Tunku Abdul Rahman had also given out citizenship to foreigners, as that had been done in broad daylight while the alleged Project IC was covert.“Tunku never gave out citizenship to subvert the electoral process but to ensure that in the run-up to Merdeka in 1957, non-Malays who resided in Malaya had a right to citizenship, which was agreed to by all including the Conference of Rulers – all done in an open and transparent manner.
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A rebel commander from the Philippines who is now a permanent resident in Malaysia said today he and six other commanders and officers from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) entered Sabah in 1975.
Testifying before the royal commission of inquiry on immigrants in Sabah, Abdul Khalil Arani, who is also known as ‘komander janggut’ (bearded commander), said his group arrived in Sandakan, Sabah, from Mindanao in a MNLF motorboat.
“We had run out of bullets and food and we wanted to find help from a fellow Muslim nation,” Khalil told the inquiry today, in reference to the civil conflict between the government of then president Fidel Marcos and the Muslim population of southern Philippines.
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The royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah today heard how two men who arrived in Malaysia as Pakistani and Indian nationals were granted citizenship in a matter of years.
Taking the stand today was Mohamed Hussein, a Pashtun Pakistani, who in 1987 flew to Kuala Lumpur via Karachi using a Pakistani passport.
He subsequently flew to Kota Kinabalu before settling down in Tawau.
“In 1988, a Pakistani man accompanied by a few Malaysian men approached me and offered me Malaysian documentation,” he told the inquiry at the Kota Kinabalu High Court.
The condition, he said, was that he must intent to stay in Malaysia and must become a voter, though he was not told for which party to vote.
“They brought me to the National Registration Department, filled in the forms for me – as I could not read and write – then took my thumbprint and signature,” he said.
Dr M admits citizenships given out in Sabah, says nothing illegal
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today admitted that citizenships were given to foreigners in Sabah, but stressed that it was “within the law”.
The former prime minister was asked to comment on the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Sabah’s illegal immigrants issue.
“When I was prime minister, I was in power to determine the implementation of government policies.
“The government received foreigners to be citizens if (they) fulfilled certain conditions, furthermore those who are there are not one, two days but already 20 to 30 years and they speak in Bahasa Melayu, have the right to be Malaysians,” Dr Mahathir said at a press conference here.
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Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan says the Election Commission (EC) must explain the allegations of a ‘citizenship-for-votes’ scheme as testified by witnesses in the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah yesterday.
“Although it is an ongoing RCI proceeding and one has to wait until its conclusion for all the evidence to come in, it is incumbent on the EC to respond immediately either to the public or at the RCI because it is a direct challenge to their integrity,” she said when contacted today.
Describing the allegations as “spine-chilling”, Ambiga (right) said the allegations would undermine public confidence in the electoral system and impair the EC’s ability to conduct elections if left unanswered.
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A refugee from Philippines said he and many others were made Malaysian citizens without them pursuing it, the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on Sabah’s immigration problem heard today.
Ismail Balaka said he received his identity card three months after a mysterious group visited his settlement in Kinarut to take down their particulars. He could not remember when it happened.
“A group of people came in an unmarked vehicle and gathered everyone at the village hall. It was during day time but I cannot remember the date and year.
“They asked us to fill forms, took our thumbprints and photographs. At that time I did not know what it was for but a friend said it was for identity cards,” Ismail said.
Prior to receiving the identity card, he held a settlement card issued by the settlement unit of the Chief Minister’s Department.
Ex-NRD man defends giving ICs to undocumented immigrants
KOTA KINABALU, Jan 17 – A former National Registration Department (NRD) official defended today his action in issuing blue identity cards to undocumented immigrants, pointing out that rural villagers lacked documents too.Former Sabah NRD director Datuk Abdul Rauf Sani told the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants here today that most people living in the interiors of Sabah like Kampung Buaian, Terian and Ulu Pensiangan did not have birth certificates.
“Their status are like immigrants,” said Rauf at the RCI here today.
“What’s the difference between them and illegal immigrants? All of them don’t have documents,” he added.
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Two of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s closest confidantes were today implicated by witnesses testifying before the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into the alleged citizenship-for-votes scam in Sabah.
A former Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) officer testified that he and the others stayed at the house of Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin (right), who was then Mahathir’s political secretary, when they were roped in to issue blue identity cards to the immigrants.
Yakup Damsah, who was then Tamparuli NRD chief, told the RCI that he and the other NRD officers were flown from Sabah to Kuala Lumpur, from where they worked out of Aziz’s house in Kampung Pandan.
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Former Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) chief Ramli Kamarudin admitted that his agency was involved in making it possible for Indonesians and Filipinos to vote in the 1994 Sabah state election, but denied that they were made citizens.
This, he explained, was because the immigrants were not issued identity card receipts in their name, but instead were issued receipts using the names and identity card numbers from people already in the electoral roll who never voted before, or are dead.
The receipts are temporary identity card slips, issued prior to the granting of a proper identity card. This document is sufficient to allow for voting.
“But because the receipts are not in their name, they cannot go to the NRD and later convert them to a blue identity card.
“Furthermore, the slips also have an expiry date of three months,” he told the royal commission on inquiry (RCI) of the immigrants in Sabah.
He added that after the state election, measures were also taken to gather all the receipts and destroy them.
“During election day, we gathered them in one place and then used buses to send them to vote.
We gave Muslim foreigners IDs to vote’
Sabah NRD director tells the RCI that he was personally instructed by Megat Junid Megat Ayub to recruit new voters.
KOTA KINABALU: A former National Registration Department (NRD) officer told an inquiry here that he took part in a project to give foreigners here identity cards so that they could vote in an election in the 1990s.
Mohd Nasir Sugip, who was detained under the now repealed Internal Security Act (ISA), told the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) he was part of a top secret operation dubbed ‘Ops Durian Buruk’ (Operation Rotten Durian) on the instruction of his bosses in the department.
He claimed the operation ran from 1992 to 1995 and said the instruction to furnish the foreigners with identity cards so that they could vote came from the state Election Commission (EC).
“At that time, Sabah SPR director Wan Ahmad Wan Omar handed over a list of 16,000 names to be made into ‘bumiputera Islam’ voters.
“My boss, Sabah NRD director Ramli Kamarudin, then verbally told me to execute this project,” he said.
(Wan Ahmad is now the EC deputy chairman).
Foreigners total 28pc of Sabah population, RCI told
KOTA KINABALU, Jan 15 — More than a quarter of Sabah’s population are foreigners, a statistician told the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants here today.Sabah Department of Statistics director Norezan Wahid said today that there were 889,000 foreigners out of a 3.2 million-strong population in Sabah, about 28 per cent, based on a 2010 census.
“We don’t specify whether they are legal or non-legal,” said Norezan at the RCI today.
He added that census-takers did not have the authority to ask people to show documents proving that they were citizens.
“In the census, we ask two questions, whether you are a citizen or not,” he said.
National Registration Department (NRD) deputy director of the citizenship division, Nik Norashikin Nik Mansur, said that 66,682 people in Sabah received Malaysian citizenship from 1964 to October 2012.
She added that 38,000 were from Malaysia, 13,000 from China, 7,000 from Indonesia, while the rest were from the Philippines, Hong Kong and other countries.
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The Kota Kinabalu High Court, where the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah is ongoing, has been evacuated following a bomb scare.
RCI chief Steve Shim abruptly suspended the inquiry at 2.47pm after commission secretary Saripuddin Kassim went up to the panel and muttered something.
“Due to some emergency, we are stopping now,” said Shim, before police moved in and ushered everyone out of the courthouse compound.
Police remained tight-lipped but asked everyone to wait across the road from the court complex as there could be “danger”.
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A total of 73,000 refugees from Philippines were allowed to settle permanently in Sabah by the state government between 1970 and 1984, the Royal Commission of Inquiry on immigrants in Sabah was told today.
Abdul Jaafar Alip (left), the chief of Settlement Unit within the Chief Minister’s Department told the RCI that one of the conditions to qualify for settlement was that the refugees had to be Muslims.
Other conditions were that the refugees must be from Region Nine of Philipines, also known as Western Mindanao or Zamboanga Peninsula, and directly affected by the ongoing conflict there and that they intended to stay in Sabah permanently.
“But to qualify for the status as a displaced person, the conditions are the same, except that they do not necessarily need to be Muslims.
Berjaya gov’t settled 73k Filipinos in Sabah
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After decades of call for the government to address the flood of immigrants into Sabah, the first witness finally took the stand today at a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on the issue.
However, the RCI is unlikely to address the core concerns immediately, as initial witnesses are to brief the RCI members on the history and demographics of Sabah, setting the groundwork for the commission’s investigation.
The first witness called today was historian Ramlah Adam (right), followed by historian Ranjit Singh.
First witness takes stand at Sabah RCI
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Steve Shim heads Sabah RCI
Posted on August 12, 2012, Sunday
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when announcing this after chairing the Sabah Barisan Nasional (BN) meeting here yesterday said former UMS Vice-Chancellor Datuk Kamaruzaman Ampon, former Sabah State Attorney-General Tan Sri Herman Luping, Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation deputy chairman and former Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Henry Chin Poy Wu and former State Secretary Datuk KY Mustafa had all been appointed commissioners of the Royal Commission of Inquiry.
He added that Chief Secretary to the Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Ministry Datuk Saripuddin Kassim is appointed as the Royal Commission of Inquiry secretary.
The BN chairman disclosed that the Royal Commission of Inquiry is given six months from the date of appointment to complete its work and the findings will be forwarded to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
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