{"id":12398,"date":"2022-05-19T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T02:59:23","slug":"sapp-theres-no-need-to-be-harsh-on-sabah-ic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/05\/19\/sapp-theres-no-need-to-be-harsh-on-sabah-ic\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPP: There\u2019s no need to be harsh on Sabah IC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Youth is confident that Sabah Cabinet will make Sabah IC a reality because this is what Sabahans crave for, said Charles Yong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t any need for SAPP to \u2018threaten\u2019 the state government pushing for the implementation of Sabah IC, as a study conducted by Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in May 2020 clearly shows 92% of Sabahans want Sabah-specific identity card, a gradual process to filter out dubious documents issued to foreigners, such as through the infamous Projek IC, and address the state\u2019s perennial undocumented migrants issue,\u201d said Charles, SAPP Deputy Youth Chief.<\/p>\n<p>Charles revealed there is one Michele On who posted an infographic in the WhatsApp group name \u201cAwan Biru Kundasang\u201d, impersonating SAPP President Datuk Yong Teck Lee, with a threatening message written in Malay \u201cJika Sabah IC tidak dilaksanakan SAPP akan tarik sokongan terhadap Ketua Menteri Sabah dan keluar daripada GRS dalam masa terdekat\u201d translated as \u201cIf Sabah IC is not implemented SAPP will withdraw support for the Sabah Chief Minister and leave GRS in the near future\u201d and attached with SAPP party\u2019s logo.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was taken when SAPP was organising a gathering to promote Sabah IC at the Deasoka Square, Gaya Street last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Charles, who is also a supreme councillor, said a Warisan assemblyman had asked Yong Teck Lee, who is also Sabah nominated assemblyman a similar question \u201cIf the Sabah IC is not implemented, will SAPP withdraw support for the Sabah Chief Minister and leave the GRS?&#8221; after Yong proposed Sabah IC in the last state assembly sitting two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDatuk Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee replied, \u2018kami tau, kami GRS (Gabungan Rakyat Sabah) ada Manifesto\u2019, of which Sabah IC is one of the pledges.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Charles, accompanied by SAPP Youth Vice Chairman Dexter Chin, Youth Exco Clarence Oh and Hu Wenzhong, made a police report on Wednesday at the Luyang Police Station against the fake message by Michelle which was done with mischief and intention to mislead.  It is hope the police will take action against this person for abusing the social media to spread lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Youth is confident that Sabah Cabinet will make Sabah IC a reality because this is what Sabahans crave for, said Charles Yong. \u201cThere isn\u2019t any need for SAPP to \u2018threaten\u2019 the state government pushing for the implementation of Sabah IC, as a study conducted by Institute of Development Studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12400,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions\/12400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}