Sabah police and the Philippine military have dismissed as untrue, a report that said a secret plot has been hatched for Sulu militants to invade Sabah which echoed the 2013 bloody incursion of Lahad Datu
A meeting between the Sulu governor and 19 mayors from the southern Philippine province was to discuss strengthening their maritime security, according to a Philippine military statement, dismissing a news report that the Dec-1 discussion was a secret plot to invade Sabah
Sabah police have dismissed as untrue a news report that said a secret plot was hatched for Sulu militants to invade Sabah which echoed the 2013 bloody incursion of Lahad Datu.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Idris Abdullah was responding to a report by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) that said a locally elected Sulu official gathered 19 mayors in the Sulu archipelago in a Dec 1 meeting to set up a “Royal Sulu Army” with a target of recruiting up to 600 men to invade Sabah.
"The news report is not true, nevertheless, we are always enhancing maritime security," Idris told the Daily Express today.
Idris's comment echoed a statement by a Philippine military official
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