This is the price of handing out citizenship for votes
(TMI) – While the accusation that illegal settlers were given Malaysian identity cards in return for their political support is well known, what is less known is what has come after this.
The question you may ask yourself after reading a few paragraphs of this story is: What if something like this were to happen in the peninsula too?
Where it’s happening is Sabah. What is happening, according to one key witness in a special court now looking into the issue of identity cards given to illegal residents there, is little less than the colonisation of a part of Malaysia.
While the accusation that illegal settlers were given Malaysian identity cards in return for their political support is well known, what is less known is what has come after this.
In return for their political support of the powers that be, those with the new ICs have been making open land grabs as well as soaking up healthcare and education privileges, said former Sandakan district officer Hassnar Ebrahim.
“Take a look at University Malaysia Sabah: 80% of the students studying there are not local Malaysians,” he told The Malaysian Insider yesterday.
Hassnar testified in the Royal Commission of Inquiry Into The Illegal Immigrants In Sabah just last week, where he named former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the brains behind the scheme to offer illegals there Malaysian identity cards in return for their votes for Barisan Nasional.
“There is no country in the world where the government intentionally dilutes the voting power of the native population like in Malaysia,” he noted wryly.
“Thousands of acres of native land have slowly been taken over by foreigners who use forged powers of attorney documents and forged sales and purchase agreements,” he claimed.
So big was the problem that even Sabah and Sarawak Chief Justice Tan Sri Richard Malanjum had called for a Native Land Tribunal to be set up to handle abuses caused by the issuance of native land certificates, he said.
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