KOTA KINABALU : Former PBS Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Ariah Tengku Ahmad, 75, is blissful which a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) upon Illegal Immigrants in Sabah has during least supposing a platform for truth to prevail.
She pronounced if not for a inquiry's testimonies, a reality surrounding a argumentative electoral formula of a Kawang Constituency in a 1994 State Election was now done well known to a world.
She praised a Najib administration department for heeding a wishes of Sabahans for a exploration as well as pronounced it would assistance redeem a certitude of a people. Ariah, who was Kawang Assemblywoman from 1985 to Mar 1994, mislaid to then BN-Umno candidate, Datuk Osu Sukam, by a small 64 votes.
"Winning an choosing by perfect deceit is no feat though a most disgraceful as well as condemnable act. Shame upon you, Osu.
You did not merit to win as well as go upon to turn a Chief Minister.
"Through fake means, you deprived a people of Kawang of my services. you had worked my courage out for a rakyat during a expense of looking after my ill husband (the late Tengku Ahmad).
"That was why when you was approached to competition again, you pronounced it was purposeless because a same thing would happen. you have no some-more faith in a choosing system.
It smacks of manipulation, cheating as well as corruption. < div>
Even now, it's happening," she said.
She remarkable which Osu was during one time sued by a London casino for over RM60 million as well as there were suggestions which Megat Junid was among those with him in Britain then. "Then it was pronounced which a casino in Australia was additionally trying to redeem his debts there.
"Although a ACA (forerunner of a MACC) opened investigation papers, zero came out of it."
Ariah private which upon a initial count of list papers which night during a Papar Community Centre, she was pronounced to have mislaid by 32 votes as well as when a relate was done following a request, it was voiced which she had mislaid by 64 votes.
When headlines of Ariah's electoral better spread via a constituency, encampment chiefs in Kadazan-based areas reportedly drowned their beating as well as sadness in home-brewed wine.
She was commenting upon media reports upon a distribution of 200 JPN profits to immigrants to capacitate them to opinion in Kawang in a 1994 State Election as suggested during a RCI hearing.
On January 16, a former Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) Record Division Head, Asli Sidup, told a RCI hearing which during which election, he was stationed during a polling centre in Papar to monitor a holders of about 200 JPN profits casting their votesthe winner who after became Chief Minister (Datuk Osu Sukam) by 64 votes.
In his testimony, Asli declared a now defunct Deputy Minister (Tan Sri Megat Junid Megat Ayub) as a one giving a directive.
According to him, he perceived direction from a late Deputy Minister during a meeting in Hyatt Hotel, Kota Kinabalu, where Ramli Kamaruddin (who took over as Sabah NRD Director from Rauf, as well as Osu Sukam) were present.
! "The directive was to replace a names of people who had never voted prior to with an additional list of people who were to be released with JPN receipts," he said, adding which a list was obtained from a Election Commission (SPR), Kemas (Community Development Department) as well as a political party.
However, Asli pronounced these people were not authorised to get a IC since a JPN profits were usually released to allow them to vote.
Ariah additionally pronounced she could never imagine Megat Junid could be involved.
"As then State Pemadam Chairperson, you used to attend National Pemadam meetings in KL chaired by him in his genius as National Pemadam Chairperson. He was so gracious, so polite as well as was so good to me."
Days prior to a 1994 State Election, it was brought to Ariah's attention which boatloads of "outsiders" were being ferried from an island (off Kawang) for them to opinion in Kawang."
"They were accommodated in homes of 'friendly' residents during Kg Pengalat Kecil (in Kawang). My supporters informed me which others were kept in a rubber estate behind a sure politician's house.
According to her, she was additionally alerted which scores of buses would be transporting foreign migrants to cast their ballots upon a day of a election.
"In fact, a number plates of a buses were supposing to me a day or two earlier. So a PBS Kawang Division mobilised a youth wing to take preventive action.
"The youths attempted to stop a buses from going to a polling centres.
Instead, police arrested as well as incarcerated them (youths).
Their relatives came to me pleading for help, as well as you had to meddle to get a youths released," she recalled.
A! riah add itionally remembered an situation during a Kg Gana polling centre where a lady was very upset as well as complained which she could not opinion because a military officer concerned told her she had already voted as well as which her name in a electoral hurl had been struck out (indicating which she had already cast her ballot).
"Datuk, saya tidak boleh undi. Dia cakap saya sudah undi pagi tadi. Nama saya sudah garis. Mana ada? Saya baru sampai," (Datuk, you can't vote. He pronounced you had already voted in a morning. My name is already struck out. How come? you only came) a lady lamented.
Anticipating this, Ariah actually reminded a electorate to turn up early though most came late, observant they had to do domicile chores as well as feed a stock first.
"Apparently, illegal immigrants had voted in a places of locals, regulating fake temperament cards (ICs). They came early to a polling centres (in buses) distinct a locals, most of whom took their own sweet time to travel to a centres during noon or in a afternoon."
And there was this 'Helicopter Money Dropping' Incident during an additional polling centre in Kawang only as people were backing up to vote.
"Rolled-up fifty dollar notes were swirling in a air. The people stopped backing up as well as rushed for a money.
"Seeing this, you incited to a police personnel who was upon duty though he instead pronounced 'Datuk, bila lagi durian runtoh' (Datuk, when will there be a windfall again)."
Subsequently, when Ariah went to justice to seek justice with all a evidence of choosing rascal (examples, use of underaged electorate as well as electorate regulating a identification particulars of defunct whose names were not private from a Kawang electoral rolls), it incited out to be a futile exercise.
"I! saw wit h my own eyes income being paid out to electorate from a red car outward a polling centre.
My aide took photographs as well as you lodged a police report during a Papar Police-Station a same day.
"Months later, it was reported to me which police were harassing my aide to surrender a negatives," she remembered.
Despite losing a justice case, a former DCM persisted in her conflict to names of indeterminate electorate in a Kawang electoral rolls in a mid-nineties.
According to her, controversial electorate openly certified which they had obtained their blue temperament cards (ICs) by 'Project IC'.
"When asked where they were born, a little gave inconsistent answers. Initially, they pronounced they were innate in Kawang, Sembulan, Kudat or Sandakan though after most interrogation, they certified which they were innate in a Philippines."
Notwithstanding Ariah's objection, a presiding military officer (who was a then Papar District Officer) accepted a indeterminate voters' blue ICs as accurate as well as refused to obliterate their names from a Kawang electoral rolls.
"Saya akan terima kad pengenalan ini asalkan ia berwarna biru. Saya tidak peduli samada ia datang dari langit atau bumi," (I will accept this IC as long as it is blue.
you do not caring whether it comes from a sky or earth) a presiding military officer was quoted as observant whilst fluttering a blue IC in a air.
Even Ariah's brother, a late Leonard Pritchard (a former Sabah Padi Board employee) was not spared of electoral fraud.
In an progressing State Election (before 1994), an illegal newcomer had allegedly used Pritchard's blue IC to cast his ballot.
"When you detected this, you lodged ! a censur e as well as my brother's name was then deleted from a Kawang electoral rolls."
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