Its secretary-general Loretto Padua Jr dismissed the allegations following the photo of a banner containing the state government’s emblem and Warisan’s logo making rounds on social media.

According to the banner, Warisan, through its Kg Titingan branch which is under the Apas division, is setting up a service centre today for the party to, among others, assist people who have encountered problems pertaining to their identity card, citizenship and late birth registration applications.

“I checked and there is no such programme. The headquarters never consented to such a programme,” Padua told FMT.

“We will investigate and find out more and will lodge a police report if necessary,” he said, hinting it was easy for anyone to come up with fake items such as banners and photos these days.

Warisan also previously denied that it was in any way involved or had been issuing forms for the registration of identity cards or applications of citizenship.

Warisan executive secretary Arifin Asgali had then said the party had no authority on matters related to the issuance of identity cards or citizenship.

Arifin, who is also the assistant minister in the Chief Minister’s Department, pointed out that even the National Registration Department and Sabah state government had no authority to issue identity cards or grant citizenship.

The Sabah rural development ministry had also previously denied allegations that it was involved in data collection to launch another Projek IC after an image of a letter from the ministry seeking information on remote villages and islands went viral.