PRESS STATEMENT

Look Beyond Schooling for Illegals Dr. Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu: Without a doubt, the educational needs of the children of illegal immigrants need to be addressed. However, both the federal and Sabah governments need to look at the problems and potential problems beyond the schooling needs of these illegals said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, commenting on the new enrolment of SK Kinarut where illegals outnumber locals by 3:2. This phenomena clearly reflects the by-product of the Project IC, Ops Durian Buruk or whatever named project of bringing in foreigners to outnumber the local natives and other Sabahans who were then pre-dominantly non-Muslim. The revelations at the just concluded RCI hearings show the evil intent of the Umno federal leaders to populate and infiltrate the local communities with foreigners many of whom were given ICs or put on the SPR electoral rolls to outvote the ruling PBS government and then later to keep the Umno/BN government, both federal and State, in power. There are many indications that this granting of dubious ICs, many with false declarations of being born in Sabah, when they were not, is still on-going. It is as if they were born twice, once in their homeland and then re-born in Sabah. It is truly Malaysia Boleh. It was and still is reverse ethnic cleansing of the local population. If the phenomena in SK Kinarut were to happen in the East Coast of Sabah, it may be understandable since it was these areas there that were populated with foreigners to carve out Umno constituencies. But for the phenomena to happen in Kinarut on the West Coast and at the doorstep of Kota Kinabalu should set alarm bells ringing for locals and all genuine Malaysians. Firstly, it clearly emphasizes the fact that the ruling federal and Sabah governments are illegal governments, put in or rather voted in with the aid of illegal voters with dubious ICs and MyKads. We need to remember that illegal voters was clearly proven and established in a Court of Law in the 1999 Likas election petition. Secondly, it shows that Sabah will be over-run and controlled by illegals in the foreseeable future. The locals are already over-run in many Umno constituencies except that the Umno Assemblymen and MPs, sadly who are Sabahans, dare not squeak a word for fear of losing their positions and their cronies losing fat government contracts. In Kinabatangan, foreigners outnumber locals by more than 3 to 1. Thirdly, these innocent school-going children will be of voting age in 14 years time and will probably be exploited as dubious voters for hire by the ruling Umno regime to keep them in power. Going by their past records as revealed in the RCI hearings, this is a foregone conclusion.

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Last but not least, these illegals in the future pose social and economic threats to the genuine locals, including those locals who have been given dubious ICs in the past. These dubious or fake IC holders as well as the locals will stand to lose out and deprived of economic and other opportunities. Before long all the locals will be deprived of their opportunities, made to be squatters in their homeland by the Umno regime with policies of not recognizing NCR and land rights of the natives, and some will potentially be murdered or robbed in their homeland. It is already happening, so genuine Sabahans and Malaysians need to awaken to the monstrous problem created by the Umno federal government aided by unpatriotic and treacherous Umno Sabah leaders, many of whom are now in government. These Umno Sabah leaders are the true traitors to the Sabah homeland. Not far behind are their cahoots, the Sabah BN leaders. Patriotic Sabahans in government, even if they are in the minority, need to stand up and get their government to take action on the illegals. We need to look beyond the schooling of the illegals. We need to put solutions in place before it is too late stressed Dr. Jeffrey. Sabahans are beginning to awaken to their rights and beginning to see the colonization of Sabah by the Malayan federal government and the theft of Sabahs oil and gas and wealth which has made Sabah from one of the richest to be the poorest State. This is 30 years too late and they should have followed what the PBS and I started in the 1980s. They now need to re-awaken to this illegals problem. One immediate solution is to create a Non-Sabahan Resident Card for the illegals with genuine Sabahans re-registered and issued a new Sabah IC. Better still, establish a Homeland Security Ministry and Department along with it. With the Non-Sabahan Resident Card, all illegals can be documented with biometric and other features. The most important feature of all is that these illegals can then be kept in check and not be used or manipulated to be put on the electoral rolls by the Umno regime. This preventive measure needs to be taken before it is too late. Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan Chairman, STAR Sabah 06 January 2014

No school for 1,000 in Kundasang

Published on: Friday, January 03, 2014

Kundasang: About 1,000 students of SMK Kundasang were not able to attend school when it reopened Thursday as a Sabah Education Department promise of building a new school was apparently not kept. The students had nowhere to return to for their studies as their old school site was too dangerous and unstable while the construction of the new school, which was promised to be completed by March this year, shows no sign of starting. Due to the problems faced, the students are now on an extended 'holiday' due to the unfinished school in Mesilou and a non-conducive studying environment. The school's PTA has decided to send a letter to the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in order to request his involvement in the matter. Parents and Teachers Association (PTA) Chairman, Japiril Suhaimin, said the school moved to a temporary site while waiting for the completion of the new school. "In early 2013, both teachers and students moved to the old site of SMK Agama Ranau so as to allow the construction of the new school in Kampung Mesilou. "We moved after safety investigations of the original school site saw that the building structure and site itself were unstable. During this time, the students suffered on many different levels. They had to endure dilapidated classroom conditions, no electricity, no windows, no proper toilets and the school had regular problems with muddy floods, he said. He also said that many students have stopped coming to school, as it is too much of a hassle. The students have to wake up at 4am in order to prepare themselves for school and make their way to a bus provided by the Education Ministry. "The bus leaves any student who come later than 6.30am in order to make it to school on time. The distance between their homes and the temporary school is about 20km with unsatisfactory roads. This is not only unsafe for the students but also the bus drivers and teachers. "Also, the cost of transport, which is shouldered by the Ministry, had reached RM1 million. If used properly, these funds could be directed into the restoration of the original school site," he told Daily Express. Parents of the students are willing and ready to move back to the original school site and even conduct gotongroyong activities in order the school for the students, he said. "The parents are sympathetic to the students who are eager to learn and students are worried that they might be left behind by order schools," he said. When contacted, State Education Director Datuk Jame Alip said: "To my understanding, the school has not been built because its construction is being handled by the Works Ministry.

Apart from that, we are trying to make the temporary site more conducive for the students and teachers. We will work non-stop so as to ready the classrooms by next Monday. "Also, if there are any other schools experiencing any sort of problem, do not hesitate to contact the department. If we do not take care of our future, who will?" he said.

In PAPAR, immigrant children were found to be outnumbering local pupils in SK Pekan Kinarut - about 60 per cent of about 260 pupils who registered for Primary One were offspring of migrants. Many local parents were forced to put their children in schools elsewhere.
The school's headmaster, Sung Diana, said the school does not discriminate against immigrant children because all children have the basic rights to education. "Of course, we could not accommodate everybody. But they (immigrants) are very persistent. They will come again and again to plead their case if we rejected their applications. "We have to take pity on them because they too want their children to be able to read and write. We cannot deny this privilege to them. After all, that it our national education policy," he said. The school, which was established in 1937, is within walking distance from the Filipino Refugee Resettlement Scheme and had been enrolling immigrant children in its register since their influx in the 1970s. The town has four primary schools including one Chinese school. The other primary national schools are SK Tampasak and SK Mook. The only secondary school is SMK Kinarut, also within walking distance from the settlement in Kg Laut. Most of the local pupils enrolled in Primary One in SK Pekan Kinarut this year went to the school's kindergarten, which is also within its compound. Others went to Kemas kindergarten in their respective villages. "The immigrant children would undergo pre-school in their settlement. Usually, these were set up and run by private individuals or NGOs," said the school's student affairs teacher Rosly Mohd Jasri. Rosly added that the school is already overcrowded but the administration is working hard to accommodate everybody. "Currently, we have six classes for each level. And for each of the levels, two classes would consist of local students and three classes of immigrant children. The other class is a mix of local and immigrant pupils," he said. An average class would consist of between 40 and 50 pupils each. The school has two schooling sessions; the morning session for Primary Four to Six and the afternoon session for Primary One to Three. Last year, the school's UPSR passing rate increased by 1.87 per cent to 32.37 per cent compared to the previous year's 31.27 per cent.

Three of its pupils scored 5A's compared to 2012 where only two pupils scored 5A's. A total of 241 pupils in the school sat for the exam in 2013 with one absentee due to illness. Meanwhile, in Kinarut's only Chinese primary school, SJKC Kin Kiau, about 70 pupils were registered for this year's Primary One. The school's student affairs officer said of these pupils, less than five pupils are Chinese. "Most of our students are bumiputera, mainly Kadazandusun and Malays," she said, adding that only one student scored 5A's in last year's UPSR examination. A total of 40,290 pupils are expected to be registered to enter Primary One Statewide this year. The number is an increase of 3,253 compared to last year where only 37,037 pupils were enrolled.

'Schooling must not be at expense of local kids'

Published on: Saturday, January 04, 2014 Email to a friend Printer Friendly

Kota Kinabalu: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Deputy Secretary General, Darrel Leiking is concerned that the SK Pekan Kinarut is overwhelmed by migrant children to the extent that some local parents are forced to put their Primary One children in schools elsewhere. He said while children in every part of the world are born with the right to free educationnative children should not have to give up their privilege and right to have a proper education within their own area. "My greatest concern would be on the parents who will now have to incur additional financial burden in terms of transportation by sending their children to other schools. "Other parents who do not have the financial luxury would have no other choice but to let their children study in this school and helplessly watch them assimilate with these migrant children. Either way, it can cause great distress upon the parents," he said in a statement, Friday. Leiking, who is also Penampang MP, believed the situation in this school was also happening in most primary schools around Sabah especially in the East Coast region. "While we do not have the conclusive evidence showing the negative effect arising from the assimilation between native Sabahan schoolchildren and the migrant schoolchildren, we know that the perspectives of our children would be shaped during their early years especially in primary schools. "While we constantly harp on our economy, sovereignty and rights of Sabah, little do we realise that our native schoolchildren who are exposed to these migrant schoolchildren everyday year after year may eventually assume that all illegal immigrants are 'no different from native Sabahans'. "Little do our native schoolchildren know that the moment these illegal immigrants landed on Sabah, they had already broken the law by entering illegally; a crime which is punishable by whipping," he said. Leiking also believed that a solution would not be easy since Sabah was now overwhelmed by illegals unless there is firm, proactive and continuous action from the State Government to really end this illegal immigrant and Projek IC problems. Majority of Sabahans are fed-up with excuses from political leaders who claimed they have been speaking about this issue for years now, he said. "What Sabahans want from the Government is results and not lip service. They want to see these hundred thousands of illegal immigrants and/or Projek ICs being deported back to their country of origin."

Meanwhile, PKR Supreme Council member, Dr Roland Chia, said it was sad to note that about 1,000 students in SMK Kundasang in Ranau were being deprived of basic education on the very first day of the new school term. "The saddest part is also that all four elected representatives that hail from the Parliamentary constituency of Ranau consist of two state ministers and a federal minister as well as an state assistant minister," he said in a statement, Friday. The Ranau MP is the Federal Minister of Science and Technology, the State Assemblyman for Karanaan is a senior minister of the State Cabinet cum State Exco for Education, while the State Assemblyman for Paginatan is the State Resource Development and Information Technology Minister and their Kundasang counterpart is an assistant minister. "There seemed to be confusion also on which Ministry should be in charge of the situation. Whether it is the Works Ministry or the Education Ministry that is responsible for the completion of SMK Kundasang. "To add salt into injury, parents themselves who are mainly peasants and farmers are willing to do gotong-royong to have the school fixed without financial help from the Ministry despite being a full-fledged government secondary school," he said. Chia who is also the Inanam Assemblyman said it was a sad day for Sabah after 50 years of independence and being the largest producer of crude palm oil as well as crude oil and gas in the country, yet such scenario still happened. "By right - it should have been Tahun Baru, Azam Baru and Semangat Baru (New Year, New Resolution and New Hope) instead it has become Tahun Baru Aiso Sekolah (New Year No School). "Scenarios like these are such an embarrassment to the state of affairs of Sabah and also discouragement to students, teachers and parents. "Yet at out backyard, thousand of students are being deprived of access to basic education on the first day of school term. Now it just boils down to the famous saying - "Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail"," he said. Education Director Datuk Jame Alip said they were trying to make the temporary site more conducive for the students and teachers.