The long-overdue Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) report on illegal immigrants in Sabah will finally be released in Kota Kinabalu this Wednesday.

The government's chief secretary Ali Hamsa is set to make the report public at a media event at the Tabung Haji complex there.

 

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had previously announced that the report will be made public in early December, despite demands by civil society and opposition politicians for the report to be released during the recently concluded Parliament sitting.

 

The information about the launch was disclosed in an Information Ministry notification on Monday.

The recommendations made in the RCI report will be studied by a special panel headed by Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan. 

 

This concludes almost year-long delay in making the report public, as it was submitted to Najib in January.

 

The RCI was set up in 2012 and had 211 witnesses in hearings which extended until late 2013.

 

The witnesses included the former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

 

The commission's five-man panel was headed by former chief judge of Sabah and Sarawak, Steve Shim.

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