Ex-MP: Filipino immigrant stole my father's name
SABAH RCI Former Sepanggar MP Eric Enchin Majimbun today told the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah, that a Filipino immigrant had stolen his father's name.
SABAH RCI Former Sepanggar MP Eric Enchin Majimbun today told the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah, that a Filipino immigrant had stolen his father's name.
"A construction worker had entered Sabah using a passport, but I was later informed that the Filipino was using my father's name.
"In 2007, I wrote to the Special Branch asking for action to be taken and the special branch later sent me a copy of the man's identity card," he testified at the Kota Kinabalu High Court complex this morning.
To his surprise, Eric ( right ) said that the man's identity card had stated his name to be ‘Jerome Majimbun', and yet no action was taken by the authorities.
When informed by conducting officer Azmi Ariffin that the RCI investigator had run a check with the National Registration Department (NRD) and the identity card was found to be false, Eric appeared to lose his patience.
"If it was fake, then why was there no reply to my letter of complaint and why no action was taken againt the man who held the identity card? Is this how Sabahans are treated?" he asked.
It is noted that the Majimbun family is a well-known and respected name in Sabah.
Eric, who is also SAPP deputy president, said illegal immigrants abusing the names of locals in forged identity cards could potentially sully their good name.
“For example there were three prostitutes who were arrested in Ipoh, they used Kadazan names but they were in fact Filipinas,” said Eric, who is of Kadazan descent.
Eric said he had raised the issue of fake identity cards as well as the alleged granting of citizenship for votes in Parliament and the BN supreme council meeting, but to no avail.
“In fact, when I raised this in Parliament, a senior minister came up to me asked me why I even bothered about it.
“He said all I had to do was to pay the illegals RM50 each and ask them to go to the peninsula, and they will do so,” he said.
A total of nine witnesses took the stand today and 137 witnesses have testified since the beginning of the RCI in January.
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