SSNBK TRADITIONAL AND CULTURAL PASSPORT ISSUANCE

THE LONG SOUGHT SSNBK TRADITIONAL AND CULTURAL PASSPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE  AT SSNB OFFICE IN QUEZON CITY TO THOSE WHO WANT TO KEEP ONE . THE PASSPORT DOES NOT IMPLY ANY POLITICAL PURPOSE NOR TO USE IN ANY DIPLOMATIC FUNCTIONS UNDER THE U.N. DIPLOMATIC PROTOCOL . THE SULTANATE OF SULU AND NORTH BORNEO IS A " DE FACTO LEADERSHIP " UNDER HIS HRH SULTAN ESMAIL D. KIRAM II .

THE FEATURES OF THE PASSPORT IS PARTICULARLY USEFULL IN SABAH WHEREIN THE 1878 SABAH LEASE CONTRACT, THE LETTER OF SABAH ADMINISTRATION AND THE LAST WILL OF SULTAN PUNJUNGAN KIRAM IS INVOKED TO HIS HRH SULTAN ESMAIL KIRAM II. THE PASSPORT WILL ALSO SERVED AS LEGAL IDENTITY OF THE TRADITIONAL PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES AND SABAH UNDER ONE CULTURE TO TWO POLITICAL GOVERNMENTS OF MALAYSIA AND PHILIPPINES.

SOME  KIRAM CLAN DOES NOT UNDERSTAND NOR ACCEPT THE VERDICT OF JUDGE C.F. C. MCKASKIE STATING THAT PUNJUNGAN KIRAM IS THE ENTITLED HEIR AND ADMINISTRATOR OF SABAH HANDLED DOWN TO HIS SON HRH SULTAN ESMAIL D. KIRAM II. THE SULTAN CAN SEE THE GREAT CONTRIBUTION OF HIS TRADITIONAL PASSPORT TO IDENTIFY THE SSNBK PEOPLE IN SABAH AS WELL AS TO THE PEOPLE OF SULU.