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Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) has defended the state Immigration
Department’s decision not to allow PKR vice president Nurul Izzah Anwar
to enter Sabah last week.
Its information chief, Datuk Johnny
Mositun, said that the party supported the decision because it had to do
with the security of the state being threatened.
“We support the
decision as we believe the Immigration Department has justification not
to allow her to enter Sabah,” he said when asked to comment on the
incident that occurred on the eve of Kaamatan.
Mositun also said
that this was not the first time that an individual had been barred from
entering Sabah and some of the individuals had in fact been allowed in
the state after the threat that they posed was deemed to be over.
He cited for example DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang who had been deported from Sabah before and is now allowed entry into the state.
“I believe this is not a total ban, it was just for that day because of the threat to the state’s security,” Mositun added.
The
Deputy State Assembly Speaker called on all to respect the decision as
it is part of the 20-point agreement that was formed in relation to
establishment of Malaysia in 1963 and pointed out that under the
agreement, the state government does not have to explain why an
individual is barred from entering Sabah.
On Sunday, Chief
Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman said Sabah’s doors are always open to
those who want to see and embrace its ethnic and cultural diversities
as well as participate in the state’s festivities.
He said Sabah also welcomed those who respect a civil society, where law and order prevailed to uphold peace and harmony.
“However
if we have reason to believe that your presence here will pose a threat
to these ideals that Sabah has enjoyed all these while, you are not
welcomed here,” he said and stressed that contrary to what was being
spread in the social media, the ban on Nurul Izzah from entering the
state was not politically motivated.
“Other opposition leaders
have come and moved freely throughout Sabah, especially during the
run-up to the elections. They spread the same old recipe of lies, deceit
and slander to hoodwink the people. We didn’t stop them,” he said.
“Now
that the elections are over, their leader refuses to accept the
verdict. It is a case of sour grapes and ungentlemanly conduct. He wants
to rile up the masses to rally throughout the country to show his, and I
repeat, his discontent,” he said.
“We have reason to believe that
Nurul Izzah’s intentions to come to Sabah this time round may not be as
innocent as she or her fellow opposition members make it out to be,” he
said.
Musa said Sabah and its people do not need endless
propaganda by the opposition to incite hatred and mistrust among the
people against the Barisan Nasional government.
“Enough is enough.
We need to move on. The opposition has been politicking for the last
five years. Are we going to get bogged down by more politicking in the
next five years? There’s work to be done. The country needs to be
administrated, the economy needs to grow and the people’s welfare taken
care of,” he said.
Source: Borneo Post
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