'11 times more new citizens in Sabah than in S'wak'

  • 9 years ago
Around 66,000 foreigners we given a path to citizenship in Sabah from 1963 to 2012, eleven times of that in Sarawak, the royal commission of inquiry was told.

The 63rd witness; Sarawak National Registration Department director Abu Bakar Mat said in the same period, only 5373 people became naturalised citizens in Sarawak.