By Frank E. Dosdos, Jr.
Correspondent
ILIGAN City — In the recently concluded Bangsa Mranao Congress (BMC) held in Iligan City, the Bangsa Mranao (Maranao People) expressed their support to the claim of the Sultanate of Sulu over Sabah, now being ruled by Malaysia.
BMC Executive Council Chairman, Sultan sa Lanao, Sultan Firdausi Ismail Yahya Abbas, said the delegates to the congress numbering around 500 Mranaos, voiced out their support for the claim of the Sultanate of Sulu over Sabah.
The support was followed by the passage of BMC Resolution No. 1 resolving that the Bangsa Mranao support the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah’s claim over Sabah through Sultan Mohammad Fuad Abdullah Kiram l, the Sultan of Sulu and Sabah, Abbas added.
Abbas stated that Sabah belongs to the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah on legal and historic grounds.
According to Abbas, Sabah was leased to Overbeck and Dent when the territory was under the British Empire by the Sultan of Sulu in the later part of the 18th century.
To this day, the Malaysian government still pays rental to the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah, Abbas added.
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