| Sabah RCI must continue Posted: 16 Mar 2013 09:33 PM PDT No reason for the Sabah RCI to take a 'break' until general election is over. I believe the process must continue irrespective of when the national poll is set or who would form the next government. And now that the opposition is politicising it - even linking it to the Suluks intrusion in Lahad Datu - we better get cracking and finish what we have started. Find a solution to the 'problems'. One can't put the blame on the government as the directive was clear on the issuance of ICs. However, some irresponsible people involved with implementing the directive had made it looked so ugly. Whether the exercise started 10, 20 or 30 years ago, the ruling government 'didn't break any rule' as only those qualified were given the IC. Former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad also said his government cannot be blamed because the directive was very, very clear - only the qualified ones should be considered.
PAPAR: The government had never issued any directive to any quarters to issue identity cards (IC) or citizenship to unqualified immigrants in Sabah, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
As such, he said, Sabahans could not blame the government during his administration over cases of fraud committed by certain parties for self-interest.
"I am aware the issue (IC project) is getting the attention of the people. I have been told, there were those who were not qualified, having just arrived, who received IC.
"This is not our directive, not the government's directive...this is fraud on the part of the officers in the area because of other interests," he told reporters on Saturday.
The former prime minister was asked to comment on the opposition campaign trend which was aggressively playing up the IC Project issue to garner the people's support, in view of the coming general election.
He clarified that many people who were not from this country were made citizens because they had stayed in the country for a long time and had mastered the national language.
"Many of us are from other countries, for example from China, Arab (countries) and India. All of them have stayed here for a long time and are loyal to this country.
"We give them citizenship if they meet the necessary conditions," he said.  |
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