PKR will file an urgent motion in Parliament on Monday to discuss the reported “epic institutionalised corruption” of security personnel at the Malaysian borders.

PKR Alor Setar MP Gooi Hsiao Leung said the move follows a Special Branch report that has put the entire country’s law enforcement capability into “serious question”.

Gooi ( photo ) said the home minister must be held accountable and must personally answer to Parliament by giving a full and transparent explanation of the “damning” report.

“We want the government’s response to the report which disclosed pervasive grand scale corruption in our enforcement agencies throughout the country,” Gooi said in a statement today.

The Special Branch report stated that 80 percent of law enforcement and security officers at Malaysian borders are corrupt.

The report is the result of 10 years of covert, deep-cover surveillance and intelligence gathering by the Special Branch at the nation’s border checkpoints.

It covered different enforcement agencies including the Immigration Department, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), the Anti-Smuggling Unit (UPP) and the police’s General Operations Force.

Report ‘shocking, scandalous’

Malaysia’s border security has been questioned following continuous cases of kidnapping in Sabah’s east coast and the discovery of 28 death camps and 139 mass graves of migrant workers and trafficked persons in Perlis.

The graves are also believed to contain the bodies of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

The bodies were found at the Bukit Burma jungle in Wang Kelian, Perlis, which borders Thailand.

Gooi called the Special Branch revelations “shocking news” and the “biggest institutionalised corruption scandal” ever reported in the country’s history.

He said Umno BN ministers have been trying to avoid responsibility for such enforcement failures by “duping and misleading” the nation by pointing fingers at foreigners.

“Any self-respecting home minister in charge of national security and law enforcement affairs would have expressed absolute disgust and horror.

“He or she would have called for departmental heads to roll following the report,” said the PKR supreme council member.

“It is totally unacceptable for the home minister to shirk his ministerial responsibilities by providing an appalling knee-jerk reaction.

“This is clearly seen as an attempt to pass on the problem to the army by calling on the army to take over the job of policing our borders,” he added.

Probe findings, Zahid told

Gooi urged Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to immediately launch a deep and thorough probe of the Special Branch findings.

He said police officers from every rank and file up to Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar himself needed to be hauled up.

“They need to explain and account for the total breakdown in law enforcement at Malaysia’s border and clearly, nothing short of a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) must be established.

“An RCI would be able to probe the rampant and widespread corruption in the various enforcement agencies on border control as disclosed in the Special Branch report,” Gooi added.

PM must take responsibility

DAP's Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo too urged Prime Minister Najib Abul Razak to take full responsibility for the endemic corruption among border security personnel.

"The prime minister cannot turn a blind eye to something as significant and huge as this.

"He must explain how is it this has been going on for over 10 years now and why we have failed to stop it," he said.

Gobind said this is important particularly at a time when international spotlight is on Malaysia following the discovery in Perlis of mass graves of human trafficking victims.

"He (Najib) must react in a manner which inspires confidence, which demonstrates he is tough and firm enough to deal with a crisis like this even to the extent of sacking those responsible, be it even the home and defence ministers and heads of those other agencies if necessary in the circumstances," he said.