KENAPA NAJIB TIDAK UMUMKAN PENUBUHAN RCI DI SABAH?

Lawatan Najib ke Sabah dua hari lepas berakhir dengan mod yang tidak menggembirakan bagi seluruh rakyat di negeri bawah bayu ini.Walaupun Najib telah menyempurnakan pecah tanah projek Ammonia Urea Sabah (SAMUR) di Sipitang yang dalam ucapannya melabelkan projek mega itu sebagai projek berskala dunia, dan kemudiannya menghadiri program Projek Mini Estet Sejahtera (MESEJ) di Lahad Datu yang menyaksikan pengumuman bahawa Sabah bukan lagi negeri miskin, namun semua itu tidak sangat menggembirakan rakyat Sabah kerana yang paling utama ialah dan dinanti-nantikan ialah pengumuman penubuhan Suruhanjaya Diraja atau RCI berkaitan dengan masalah Pendatang Tanpa Izin di negeri yang sinonim dengan 'fixed deposit' BN itu.

Sebelum kedatangan Najib dalam lawatan singkat dua harinya di Sabah itu, pemimpin-pemimpin parti komponen BN Sabah telah mewar-warkan kononnya Najib akan mengumumkan penubuhan RCI itu sebagai jalan penyelesaian kepada beberapa tuntutan pemimpin komponen BN Sabah termasuk UPKO dan PBS yang sebelum ini lantang mempersoalkan tentang kewujudan PATI di negeri ini. Adalah amat malang kedatangan Najib ke Sabah tidak membawa apa-apa berita berkait perkara itu, sebaliknya dengan strategi politik yang dirancang lebih awal, Najib dilihat cuba menyakinkan bahawa Sabah bukan lagi negeri Miskin dan masalah PATI bukan menyebabkan kemiskinan. Mungkin itu yang bermain di benak Najib.Biarkan Sabah dilimpahi oleh PATI, kerana PATI itu yang memberikan kemenangan BN di Sabah.

Najib lupa bahawa isu PATI bukanlah tuntutan politik semata-mata tetapi ia telah menjadi masalah sosial selama hampir 3 dekad di bumi Sabah ini. Najib bukannya tidak hendak menyelesaikan masalah itu, tetapi desakan mahukan kemenangan membuatkan Najib melupakan hak-hak rakyat Sabah yang ingin mengecapi kehidupan tanpa kehadiran PATI yang menimbulkan banyak masalah politik, ekonomi dan sosial di Sabah.

Lim Kit Siang pemimpin DAP dalam blognya juga mempersoalkan tindakan Najib tidak mengumumkan penubuhan RCI semasa lawatannya ke Sabah tempoh hari ;

Sabahans entitled to a clear and unequivocal answer why Najib has not announced the formation of RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah

I am most disappointed that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has ended his two-day visit to Sabah without making the widely-touted announcement on the formation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah.

Sabahans and Malaysians have been given to understand that the Cabinet had approved the establishment of a RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah and that Najib would be making the announcement during his Sabah visit this week.

Sabahans and Malaysians are entitled to know why Najib has failed “deliver” on this issue during his Sabah trip and whether the claim of certain Sabah Ministers that the Cabinet had made a final decision on the establishment of a RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah is mere “hot air” without any basis grounded on facts or whether this is another example of the Cabinet being subordinate and subservient to the dictates of UMNO hegemony?

For more than three decades, I have personally been raising the issue of illegal immigrants in Sabah, creating political, economic, social and security problems for Sabahans and making them feel that they have become foreigners in their own homeland because they have been outnumbered by the unchecked influx of illegal immigrants.

Immediately after the 2008 general elections, I had sought to move a motion in the first meeting of the new Parliament to fulfil the three-decade dream of Sabahans for a RCI on illegal immigrants but this effort was thwarted by the refusal of Sabah Barisan Nasional MPs to support the RCI motion.

I had thought that at last there would be a RCI into illegal immigrants both in Sabah and throughout Malaysia but this has proved to be premature.

Sabahans are entitled to a clear and unequivocal answer from Najib whether there is going to be a RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah and Malaysia, its full term of reference, the composition and most important of all, the time line particularly on whether there would be time for the RCI not only to submit its report and recommendations but also for their implementation before the next general elections.