Oleh Jayden Lisandu, 16-8-2024
KOTA KINABALU : Aktivis Sabah, Daniel John Jambun, hari ini menyerahkan surat peringatan kepada Majistret Kota Kinabalu, berhubung permohonan pendengaran kes seorang pendatang India yang dilantik ahli lembaga pengarah Sawit Kinabalu, syarikat kerajaan negeri Sabah.
Katanya, ramai ingin tahu apa kesudahan kes Peer Mohamad Kadir itu memandangkan dia kini memiliki kad pengenalan Malaysia dan menjadi Ketua MIC Sabah serta pengarah syarikat negeri sedangkan jelas dia warganegara India, lahir di India dan membesar di sana sebelum datang ke Sabah dan memperoleh kad pengenalan Malaysia.
Kewarganegaraan Peer dipersoalkan kerana ketika dia memberi keterangan saksi pada Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) pada 2013, dia mengakui lahir di India dan bukan di Kimanis, Sabah.
"Rakyat Sabah ingin tahu apa tindakan Ketua Menteri Datuk Hajiji Noor mengenai hal ini yang sudah berlanjutan sekian lama. Kenapa biarkan keadaan ini terus berlaku?," kata Daniel hari ini.
Pada Jun lalu, Daniel bersama dua lagi aktivis iaitu Dr Kanul Gindol dan Andrew Ambrose, menggesa Ketua Menteri Sabah mendedahkan hasil siasatan yang diumumkannya pada 2022 mengenai bagaimana seorang pendatang asing dilantik pengarah Sawit Kinabalu.
Daniel adalah Presiden Yayasan Borneo's Plight in Malaysia, manakala Dr Kanul Pengerusi Inisiatif Gindol untuk Masyarakat Madani Borneo, dan Andrew pula dari Pembela Tanah Leluhur Sabah.
Peer didakwa menerima kad pengenalan Malaysia enam tahun selepas tiba di Sabah dari India pada 1984. Peer sebenarnya dalam pengakuannya sendiri dilahirkan di Chennai, India.
Bagaimanapun kad pengenalan Malaysianya menyatakan dia lahir di Sabah, lebih tepat lagi kononnya lahir di Kg Bambangan, Kimanis.
Daniel ketika itu berkata, “Hajiji telah berjanji pada 2022 untuk menyiasat perkara ini tetapi sengaja melupakannya, berharap orang ramai akan melupakan.” Nama Peer masih tersenarai sebagai pengarah syarikat itu sehingga hari ini.
Andrew pula menuntut kerajaan negeri telus mengenai penemuannya dan mendedahkannya kepada umum.
“Dia (Peer) harus menjelaskan bagaimana dia mendapat MyKad. Tidak kira status politiknya, prinsip kebertanggungjawaban dan ketelusan mesti dikekalkan.
“Orang ramai berhak mengetahui kebenaran, dan ketelusan ini akan membantu memulihkan kepercayaan awam terhadap proses kewarganegaraan dan imigresen negara ini,” kata Andrew sambil menggesa cadangan pelan IC Sabah dilaksanakan untuk membolehkan negeri mengawal populasinya.
Dr Kanul pada Jun pula sebaliknya berkata beliau mahu percaya yang para pemimpin Sabah tidak akan menutup mata terhadap perkara Peer.
“Saya tidak mahu percaya bahawa kedua-dua kerajaan negeri dan persekutuan buta atau telah lumpuh untuk bertindak terhadap kes Peer ini,” katanya ketika itu.
Sebelum itu, seorang pemimpin Parti Progresif Sabah (SAPP) yang juga setiausaha politik Ketua Menteri Sabah sendiri, Jamain Sarudin, telah menggesa kerajaan Sabah untuk mendedahkan hasil siasatan yang sepatutnya terhadap Peer.
Menurut Daniel, beliau memutuskan memberi peringatan kepada majistret Jumaat ini sebab kes itu adalah membabitkan kepentingan oramg ramai dan kedaulatan Sabah.#
The English version..
Activist Daniel Issues a reminder Letter to Magistrate Regarding Peer Mohamad Case
By Jayden Lisandu, 18-8-2024
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah activist Daniel John Jambun today lodged a reminder letter to the Kota Kinabalu Magistrate concerning the request for a hearing in the case of an Indian immigrant who was appointed to the board of directors of Sawit Kinabalu, a Sabah state-owned company.
He stated that many are eager to know the outcome of the Peer Mohamad Kadir case, given that he currently holds a Malaysian identity card, is the Chairman of MIC Sabah, and is a director of a state company despite being clearly an Indian citizen, born in India and having grown up there before coming to Sabah and obtaining a Malaysian identity card.
Peer's citizenship is in question because when he testified as a witness at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) in 2013, he admitted to being born in India and not in Kimanis, Sabah.
"Sabahans want to know what action Chief Minister Datuk Hajiji Noor is taking regarding this matter which has been ongoing for so long. Why allow this situation to persist?," Daniel said today.
In June, Daniel, along with two other activists, Dr. Kanul Gindol and Andrew Ambrose, urged the Sabah Chief Minister to disclose the results of the investigation he announced in 2022 regarding how a foreign immigrant was appointed as a director of Sawit Kinabalu.
Daniel is the President of the Borneo's Plight in Malaysia Foundation, Dr. Kanul is the Chairman of the Gindol Initiative for a Civil Society in Borneo, and Andrew is from the Sabah Indigenous Land Defenders.
Peer is alleged to have received his Malaysian identity card six years after arriving in Sabah from India in 1984. Peer, in his own admission, was born in Chennai, India.
However, his Malaysian identity card states he was born in Sabah, specifically in Kg Bambangan, Kimanis.
Daniel had previously stated, “Hajiji promised in 2022 to investigate this matter but has deliberately forgotten it, hoping the public would also forget.” Peer’s name is still listed as a director of the company to this day.
Andrew, on the other hand, demands that the state government be transparent about the findings and disclose them to the public.
“Peer should explain how he obtained his MyKad. Regardless of his political status, principles of accountability and transparency must be upheld.
“The public has the right to know the truth, and such transparency will help restore public trust in the country’s citizenship and immigration processes,” Andrew said, while also urging the implementation of the Sabah IC Plan to enable the state to manage its population.
Dr. Kanul, in June, expressed his hope that Sabah leaders would not turn a blind eye to Peer’s case.
“I do not want to believe that both the state and federal governments are blind or have become incapacitated in addressing this Peer case,” he said at that time.
Previously, a leader from the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), who is also the political secretary to the Sabah Chief Minister, Jamain Sarudin, had called on the Sabah government to reveal the results of the investigation into Peer.
According to Daniel, he decided to issue a reminder to the magistrate because the case involves public interest and the sovereignty of Sabah.#
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