RCI report on illegals to be tabled in Parliament

The report contains the testimonies of 211 witnesses including that of Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim.

KOTA KINABALU: The long-delayed Royal Commission of Inquiry Report (RCI) on the illegal immigrant phenomenon in Sabah will be tabled in Parliament during its next sitting on Tuesday.

Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan disclosed this on the sidelines of a weekend public forum in Kota Kinabalu.

“The Cabinet has discussed it,” he said. “I understand that it will be presented to Parliament in this session.”

The Report, containing the testimonies of 211 witnesses including former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, was submitted to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah and Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak earlier this year.

The five-man commission, announced in August 2012 began its work on September 21, and was chaired by former Sabah and Sarawak chief judge Steve Shim Lip Kiong.

The other four members on the commission were former Sabah Attorney-General Herman J. Luping, Universiti Malaysia Sabah former vice-chancellor Professor Kamaru­zaman Ampon, former Sabah secretary KY Mustafa and Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation deputy chairman Henry Chin Poy Wu.

The RCI was governed by eight terms of reference covering the number of foreigners in Sabah with Malaysian MyKads; whether these were entered in the Sabah electoral rolls; and the various implications of the presence of the foreigners in Sabah.