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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Cops wants 'water villages' removed



The Semporna district police will be recommending for the removal of “water villages” in the area to the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) to improve security. 

According to Berita Harian, two of such villages are Simunul and Srijaya, near Semporna town, which was the scene where six police personnel were ambushed and killed by armed intruders on March 2.

semporna simunul 040313 bloodWater villages are networks of wooden villages built on stilts which dots the coastal areas throughout Sabah, normally near urban areas.

Semporna district police chief Firdaus Francis Abdullah said that in the Semporna district alone, there are 21 islands which hosts such villages.

On Thursday, former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad had also recentlyrecommended that water villages be removed from Sabah's landscape, on grounds that such area are barely policed.

The police will also recommend that “pump boats”, a type of water craft which can travel on shallow water, be banned because it is used for smuggling and could have been used to ferry the armed intruders.
Piracy

He added that the police is considering requests by locals to build a command post about 3 nautical miles from Semporna to monitor the entry of boats, ferries and ships headed for those villages.

Meanwhile, NST reports that the Lahad Datu area had long suffered from pirates from southern Philipines. Tawi-Tawi, is only an hour away by sea.

NONEAssaffal Alian, a resident of Kampung Tanduo - the epicentre of the ongoing armed intrusion by forces loyal to Sulu province's Sultan Jamalul Kiram III – had complained there were many discreet landing points for illegals.

Assaffal is among those 2,800 people who have been evacuated from Kampung Tanduo and several surrounding villages after armed intruders landed in the area last month.

The evacuees are currently being housed in four centres – Fajar Harapan, Cenderawasih, Embara Budi and Gemala Puta - nearby and are not allowed to leave without permission.

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