PARLIAMENT The government will consider the possibility of extraditing those campaigning for Sabah and Sarawak’s secession from Malaysia from overseas countries, Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Wan Jaafar said today.

He said that the attorney-general is studying all the cases based on the evidence gathered, and a decision on whether to pursue extradition will only be considered later.

“We have good relations with the authorities in Britain, this can be done but it must be reciprocal for extradition to happen,” he said during question time in Parliament today.

Wan Junaidi repeated his assertion that most of those urging secession were “disgruntled politicians”.

“Politics doesn’t have to mean that you are part of any party. The moment you interfere with the administration, then you are a politician, without even being a member of any party,” he said.

Meanwhile, he also said that the notion that there is growing discontent from Sabah and Sarawak people against the federal government, leading to urgings for secession away from Malaysia, is just a “perception”.

“There are only a few of them doing this. That’s not many. It’s not true (when you say many),” he said in response to a question from Chong Chieng Jen (DAP-Bandar Kuching) in Parliament.

“Our intelligence tells us that there are very few of them.”

“That’s just your perception (that there are many). You are living in your own world. We live in reality,” Wan Junaidi said.

Wan Junaidi is the MP for the Santubong constituency in Sarawak.


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