Shafie told to explain photo
Published on: Sunday, May 21, 2017
Kota Kinabalu: Bum-Bum island Umno branch chief Datuk Ainal Fattah has challenged Parti Warisan Sabah President Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal to publicly explain if a photo that shows him with Agbimuddin Kiram, the man who led a group of 235 armed militants to invade Sabah under the instruction of the late Jamalul Kiram III in 2013, is fake.He said the photograph has raised a lot of public suspicion as the shocking incident still remains fresh in the minds of most Sabahans."I'm challenging Shafie to explain to the people what his business was in being with the man who has gone down as the enemy of our State and country," he said, in a statement.
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Ainal, who is a Semporna-born senior lawyer and Secretary of Umno Zone Six, said Shafie's alleged acquaintance with Agbimuddin as shown in the photo contradicted his political battle cry of "Sabah for Sabahans.""He's been campaigning that Sabah is for Sabahans. But how come the picture is showing him having a cordial relationship with the man who caused the deaths of our police and military personnel? He owes the people a full explanation," he said.Agbimuddin led a group who called themselves the "Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo" that was sent by Jamalul Kiram III, one of the claimants to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu.He was the younger brother of Jamalul.
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Kiram III had stated that their objective was to assert the unresolved territorial claim of the Philippines over Sabah.At the end of the over one-month standoff in Kg Tanduo, Lahad Datu, around 56 militants were killed together with six civilians and 10 Malaysian security forces.
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