Sabah security in fits-and-starts

By Joe Fernandez
Sabah security in fits-and-starts just won’t do.

We are now told that the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) will be responsible for security along the newly-created Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) stretching from Kudat in the North to Tawau in the south-east corner, past the wolf’s mouth segment on the map of the territory.

Mindef takes over from the all-powerful Prime Minister’s Department (PMD) which had hitherto been apparently responsible for security in Sabah. Indeed, it appears that the reason why Malaysian security forces have been slow in responding to the Lahad Datu intrusion and Standoff may be more due to the fact that the PMD was solely responsible for security in Sabah.

Cobold Commission never established that majority Sabahans wanted Malaysia

OPINION: In 1963, Sabah was bundled with Sarawak into a strategic arrangement between Britain and Malaya to consolidate Britain's colonial territories and economic interests and replace British colonial rule in this region with Malayan rule in the newly created Malaysia.

When the Malaysia proposal was announced in 1961 by Tunku Abdul Rahman, this immediately touched off local and regional controversy and opposition to "Malaysia" as a neo-colonial scheme to prolong colonial rule- especially by Indonesia and the Philippines. This led to Indonesia's Konfrontasi against Malaysia and the Philippines claim on Sabah.

Sultan of Sulu--A "SHOCKING" REVELATION!!!----amazing

An interview with relatives about the background history of the 72 YEAR OLD RAJA MUDA AGBIIMUDDIN KIRAM who is LEADING THE SULU ARMY IN LAHAD DATU, reveals something which ALL SABAHANS had "SUSPECTED" & FEARED THE MOST...

... THE SULU PRINCE "HOLDS A MALAYSIAN SABAH IC"!!!

Quoting from the interview write-up...

"When President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law all over the Philippines on Sept. 21, 1972, Datu Punjungan Kiram, a crown prince then, HID OFF TO SABAH

Charges against Tian Chua will expedite BN's downfall, says Star

By Daniel John Jambun
INANAM : The swift action by the BN government to charge opposition leader Tian Chua for sedition over his fair remark on the Lahad Datu incidence is a black day for democratic Malaysia and would undoubtedly ensure all right-thinking Malaysians to vote for opposition at the coming polls.

It will expedite the downfall of Umno regime which clearly practiced selective prosecution and dirty tactics all these years.

PI Bala passes away

Private investigator P Balasubramaniam, who rocked the na
tion which his statutory declarations on the murder of
Altantuya Shaariibuu, has passed away.

KUALA LUMPUR: Private investigator P Balasubramaniam, who rocked the nation which his statutory declarations on the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, has passed away.

Both PKR vice-president N Surendran and Subang MP R Sivarasa confirmed this.

“I am on my way to the Sungai Buloh Hospital. I don’t have the details as yet,” Sivarasa told FMT.

It is learnt that he died in an ambulance on his way to the Sungai Buloh Hospital from his house in Rawang.