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Sunday, 16 November 2014

RCI Report public next month

Sabah Deputy Chief Minister and Huguan Siou Joseph Pairin Kitingan will head a committee to look into the findings.

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KOTA KINABALU: Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak announced at the Upko Convention in the Sabah capital on Sat that the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) Report on illegal immigrants in Sabah will be made public next month.

“Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan will head a committee to look into the findings and come up with the next course of action,” he said in adding that this must be within the context of esprit de corps, without elaborating what he meant by using the term.

Najib said he was aware how important the issue was to Sabahans. He made the decision to make the Report public after discussing with his Federal Cabinet colleagues, he stressed.

The RCI Report was handed over to the King and Najib six months ago.

The RCI headed by Steve Shim Lip Kiong, a former Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak, was set up on 21 Sept, 2012 and closed on 20 Sept last year.

It summoned 211 witnesses including former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, Pairin and his younger brother Jeffrey Kitingan, the Assemblyman for Bingkor.

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