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Sabah is Ours: Malaysia

Chief Editor June 4, 2016

MALAYSIA has vowed to defend the sovereignty of Sabah following remarks made by Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte that the oil-rich state – home to about half a million Filipinos – belongs to the Sultante of Sulu.

The Malaysia Digest also reported that Duterte was quoted by the Philippine media that he would never abandon the Sulu Sultanate’s quest to stake its claim on Sabah.

“We are allowing proprietary heirs to talk (with Malaysia). Since it is part of our claim, it will be there as our land,” Duterte was quoted as saying.  “What has been the policy will always be the policy of the government especially those for the interest of the country. We have to stake our claim.”

But Malaysian Prime Minister Da­tuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has vowed to defend every inch of Sabah’s sovereignty.

Malaysian media quoted Najib as saying that no one could stake a claim on Sabah that had gained its independence through Malaysia with the agreement of the United Nations in 1963.

The findings of the Cobbold Commission reflected the wishes of the people and this was accepted by the international community. “As such, no group can make any claim on Sabah,” Najib said in a report by The Star.

Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman also stated his stand that the state would remain part of Malaysia and had never recognised any claim by the Philippines on the issue. The report further quoted Najib as saying that Malaysia is committed towards defending Sa­­bah from any threat and urged its citizens to be the eyes and ears of the security forces against anything that might emerge internally.

Last year, Manila offered to downgrade its claim on Sabah in exchange for Malaysia’s support in its case before the United Nations against China’s claims over scattered islands near the Philippines, Malaysian media reported.

The Philippines is claiming that Sabah or North Borneo originally belonged to the Sultan of Brunei, who gave it to Sultan of Sulu Salah ud-Din Karamat Bakhtiar in 1658 as a reward for helping quell a rebellion.

In 1878, Sulu Sultan Jamalul Alam Kiram leased North Borneo to the Hong Kong-based British North Borneo Company of Baron Gustavos von Overbeck and Alfred Dent for “5,000 Malaysian dollars” a year.

Even after North Borneo became part of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur still pays an annual rent of at least 5,000 ringgit to the heirs of the recognized Sultan of Sulu Ismail Kiram. (With a report from the Mindanao Examiner)

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