KOTA KINABALU – Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP)’s Youth wing has called on the state government to reveal the outcome of the supposed probe on Sabah MIC chief Peer Mohamad Kadir.
Its chief Jamain Sarudin said the state government must reveal his identity, as he is allegedly a migrant from Chennai, India who obtained his identification card apparently only two years after arriving in Sabah.
“We want the government to immediately reveal the identity of Peer Mohamad Kadir, who is allegedly appointed as a member of a Sabah government-linked firm board of directors,” he said in a statement here today.
About a month ago, Sabah chief minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor had said that a probe into the claim that Peer was a migrant would be carried out.
But there has been no further update on the matter since.
The Vibes had earlier reported that Peer allegedly obtained his Malaysian identity card after coming to Sabah from Chennai, India in 1984.
He was also called as a witness in the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah in 2013.
Peer claimed he had obtained his Malaysian citizenship in 1989 with the help of an uncle.
Jamain said the issue is a sensitive one and had received negative comments from various public domains.
He noted that this requires an immediate full disclosure on the part of the Sabah government.
Before this, the Borneo Plight in Malaysia Foundation and the Gindol Initiative for Civil Society of Borneo have questioned whether Peer was the person referred to in the RCI Report and whether he was the one who was appointed to the board of Sawit Kinabalu.
The Vibes had also reached out to Peer previously, but he refused to comment on the matter. – The Vibes, February 17, 2022
