Special pass for illegal workers only in p’sula: Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu: Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan (pic) has slammed a post by a blog here that insinuated the Federal Government is about to grant a special pass for illegal immigrants in Sabah.

Jeffrey, who is Star President, said the post in the blog which had been making the rounds on social media, is misleading and malicious.

The same blog also used a picture of him and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as its featured image although the picture had nothing to do with the post.

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“The Prime Minister was only referring to the situation in the peninsula. The temporary pass is nothing like the Sabah Temporary Pass (or PSS) which Warisan had stubbornly and arrogantly defended earlier this year,” he said in a statement.

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He said the proposal mooted by Muhyiddin was to give a temporary pass to stranded undocumented migrants who are already in Malaysia to work in oil palm and rubber plantations.