Kit Siang tells Putrajaya to show the political will to resolve the illegal immigrants issue.
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KUALA LUMPUR: DAP is pushing for speedy action on the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah (RCIIIS), which will be released to the public tomorrow.
In a press statement today, party strongman Lim Kit Siang urged the Cabinet and Barisan Nasional MPs to demand that the Joseph Pairin Review Committee on the RCIIIS recommendations complete its work and publicise its report before the year’s end “so that the new year of 2015 can begin with the serious resolution of the 40-year problem”.
He also urged the Prime Minister to call for an emergency meeting of Parliament in the closing days of 2014 to discuss the issue. He said this would demonstrate the government’s “seriousness and political will” to resolve the problem.
“I do not think I am the only one to have the queasy and sickening feeling that despite the release of the report of the RCIIIS tomorrow, it will be the latest in a merry-go-round passing-the-buck game,” he said.
Lim also told the Chief Secretary to the Government, Ali Hamsa, to ensure that all MPs would be given full sets of the RCIIIS report.
“I have been trying to contact the Chief Secretary or someone in the Prime Minister’s Department to arrange for a set of the RCIIIS Report tomorrow, but to no avail,” he said.
“My staff was pushed from pillar to post from one department to another, as nobody seems to know who is in charge, until finally to be informed that all the three officials involved in the RCIIIS had gone to Kota Kinabalu for the public launch of the report tomorrow.
“This is not a very impressive display of efficiency and competence of the Prime Minister’s Department in Putrajaya, which probably holds the world record as the prime minister’s office in any country with the largest annual budget.”
FMTKUALA LUMPUR: DAP is pushing for speedy action on the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah (RCIIIS), which will be released to the public tomorrow.
In a press statement today, party strongman Lim Kit Siang urged the Cabinet and Barisan Nasional MPs to demand that the Joseph Pairin Review Committee on the RCIIIS recommendations complete its work and publicise its report before the year’s end “so that the new year of 2015 can begin with the serious resolution of the 40-year problem”.
He also urged the Prime Minister to call for an emergency meeting of Parliament in the closing days of 2014 to discuss the issue. He said this would demonstrate the government’s “seriousness and political will” to resolve the problem.
“I do not think I am the only one to have the queasy and sickening feeling that despite the release of the report of the RCIIIS tomorrow, it will be the latest in a merry-go-round passing-the-buck game,” he said.
Lim also told the Chief Secretary to the Government, Ali Hamsa, to ensure that all MPs would be given full sets of the RCIIIS report.
“I have been trying to contact the Chief Secretary or someone in the Prime Minister’s Department to arrange for a set of the RCIIIS Report tomorrow, but to no avail,” he said.
“My staff was pushed from pillar to post from one department to another, as nobody seems to know who is in charge, until finally to be informed that all the three officials involved in the RCIIIS had gone to Kota Kinabalu for the public launch of the report tomorrow.
“This is not a very impressive display of efficiency and competence of the Prime Minister’s Department in Putrajaya, which probably holds the world record as the prime minister’s office in any country with the largest annual budget.”
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