KOTA KINABALU, July 19 — A group gathered near the Sabah legislative assembly building to peacefully protest the rejection of a motion to debate the issues surrounding claims...
KOTA KINABALU, July 19 — A group gathered near the Sabah legislative assembly building to peacefully protest the rejection of a motion to debate the issues surrounding claims made by the “heirs” to the Sulu sultanate.
The group waited for a representative from the state legislative office to receive their memorandum for the state assembly Speaker, but as of 12.30pm, no one emerged to meet them. Speaker Datuk Kadzim M. Yahya said the motion was rejected based on Rule 23 which requires motions to be submitted within 24 hours of the start of the session.
Kadzim, however, advised Shafie to raise the matter in Parliament, saying that as it involves the federal government, the issue should be handled at the federal level. The decades-long controversial issue has taken a big tide when it was reported that two Petronas Luxembourg-registered subsidiaries, Petronas Azerbaijan and Petronas South Caucasus, were seized on Monday following a Paris arbitration court ruling in March that Malaysia was obliged to pay the Sulu “descendants” at least RM62.59 billion.
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