KOTA KINABALU: Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) government will be able to resolve issues pertaining to illegal immigrants more effectively by working with the federal government.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin said he chaired the state-level technical committee on management of illegal immigrants in the state.
"Through this committee, we aim at having an achievable decision in (solving) security and foreign workers.
"We are hoping that with the setting up of the technical committee at the state and the federal level, joint collaboration can expedite efforts in solving the issues," he said in a statement after chairing an online meeting on the Illegal Immigrants technical management committee here yesterday.
He also said it was timely now for such a collaboration as the state government had formed good ties with the federal government.
Bung, who is also the state Public Works minister, said that Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hazani Ghazali would chair the security committee while Tan Sri Pandikar Amin would take charge of the illegal immigrants and foreign workers committee.
He said with the issue of illegal immigrants being addressed, people should stop pointing fingers when things had yet to show results.
"Illegal immigrants and border security issues have been long-standing and do not have absolute solutions.
"We have heard opinions and relevant suggestions on how to solve it from leaders and citizens.
"But if we do not act in one direction, there is nothing to gain," said the Lamag assemblyman.
Yesterday, United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (Upko) youth chief Felix Joseph Saang called on the state government to fulfil its manifesto on tackling the issues which GRS had promised to the electorate.
He also raised the need to act against agents following recent reports of eight Filipinos working as security guards in Kuala Lumpur being charged with using fake identity cards obtained from Sabah.
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