Let the Cabinet make history tomorrow by doing a quartet by declassifying the reports of Council of Eminent Persons (CEP), the Institutional Reform Committee (IRC) and the Hishammuddin Yunus special committee on management of foreign workers as well as lifting the ban on Bernard Sta Maria’s book “The Golden Son of the Kadazan”.
I welcome the announcement of the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, that he will uphold the principle that information should not be kept from the rakyat and he will bring the issue of the declassification of both CEP and IRC reports to the Cabinet for decision.
The lifting of the ban on Bernard’s book “The Golden Son of the Kadazan” will be a welcome recognition of the Malaysian patriotism of a great Kadazan and Malaysian, Peter Mojuntin as the continued ban on the book will be a slur on the good name and great deeds of Peter Mojuntin before his premature and unfortunate death in the “Double-Six” Nomad Crash tragedy 52 days after Peter’s Berjaya succeeded in toppling USNO and Tun Mustapha and saved Malaysia from a national crisis.
Had the Double-Six Nomad crash disaster not occurred, Peter might have saved Sabah from another tragedy.
There is also no reason to continue to classify the report of the independent special committee on the management of foreign workers chaired by former Court of Appeal judge, Hishammuddin Yunus and the publication of Hishamuddin report will contribute to the resolution of a complicated and long-vexed issue.