Assemblyman wants authorities to monitor foreigners

KOTA KINABALU, Jul 28 (The Borneo Post) -- A state assemblyman has called on the relevant authorities to monitor the unusually large number of foreigners posing as locals in Tenom district.

Melalap assemblyman Datuk Radin Malleh wants the police, immigration and national registration departments to make a thorough check on the foreigners who claim to be locals.

“However, they can be easily distinguished by their accent and appearances. “I have also been inundated with complaints over their large presence in Tenom,” the Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) secretary-general said in a press statement yesterday.

Radin was responding to a statement by Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein in Sandakan on Sunday, that bogus agents — claiming to facilitate identification document applications — were at large in Sabah.

He also supported Hishammuddin’s call to take stern action against the agents, as well as those who engaged their services