'Sejak Esscom, kenapa Sabah lebih tak selamat?'

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Parti Reformasi Negeri (Star) Sabah membangkitkan soal keselamatan negeri itu yang menurutnya lebih tidak selamat sejak penubuhan Kawasan Keselamatan Khas Pantai Timur (Esscom).

“Apa yang terjadi kepada keselamatan Sabah?

"Nampaknya Sabah menjadi lebih tidak selamat sejak penubuhan Esscom dan penyusunan semula terbarunya,” kata ketuanya Datuk Jeffrey Kitingan.

Menurut Jeffrey, insiden terbaru di Pulau Mabul pada Sabtu menjadikannya kebolosan sistem pertahanan kelima dalam tempoh empat bulan tahun ini.

Ia juga, tambahnya, berlaku hanya seminggu selepas kehadiran anggota militan dikesan di Tawau.

“Adakah kerajaan persekutuan menangani masalah keselamatan Sabah dengan betul? Adakah Esscom memberikan jawapan yang tepat kepada segala permasalahan keselamatan kami?

“Atau adakah terdapat isu-isu sosial yang lebih serius dan asas yang perlu dikenal pasti dan ditangani?” soal Jeffrey yang juga Anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Bingkor.

Adakah Pencerobohan Lahad Datu perancangan UMNO? - Jeffrey Kitingan

Is Lahad Datu siege a Umno-BN plan?

Raymond Tombung

 | February 20, 2013

The government's 'unconvincing actions' via negotiations had 'legitimised' the Sulu army's demands and made us a laughing stock, said STAR chief Jeffrey Kitingan.

KOTA KINABALU: Is the incursion of more than 100 armed Filipino men from the alleged royal Sulu army an elaborate federal level Umno strategy to scare Sabahans into voting back the Barisan Nasional in the 13th general election?

Is that why the federal government and its top leaders – Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak included – seem unperturbed by the threats and demands of the Manila-acknowledged Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III and his men led by brother Raja Muda Abimuddin who are holed up in Lahad Datu since Feb 9?

Isn’t it possible that Putrajaya and Manila are in cahoots? After all, it has been reported in the Philippine media that President Benigno Aquino was “informed of the incursions from Day One”. Also noteworthy is that Malaysia took credit as peacemaker in the long-drawn insurgency in the southern Philippines.