THERE is still no sign Yamani Hafez Musa, the son of former Sabah chief minister Musa Aman, as the deadline for him to take his oath of office looms.

The Sipitang MP, who disappeared after the May 9 polls, has been told to be present on January 7 in Parliament to take his oath, which is nine days before the speaker can declare the seat vacant.

He is the only MP yet to take his oath and failure to do by January 15 will compel the speaker to declare the seat vacant.

If this scenario plays out, Yamani will make Malaysian history as the first lawmaker to lose a seat because of failure to take an oath of office.

Meanwhile, his Sabah colleagues said they, too, were clueless as to his whereabouts and have not been able to reach him.

“We do not have any information on him as yet,” independent Usukan assemblyman Japlin Akim told The Malaysian Insight.

Yamani, along with Japlin, is now without a party as he was one of four MPs and nine Sabah Umno assemblymen who left the party en masse on December 12.

The defection was led by then Sabah Umno liaison chief Hajiji Mohd Noor, who said he, too, was unclear as to Yamani’s whereabouts.

“We only spoke by phone at the time when we were leaving Umno,” he said, adding that he did not ask Yamani where he was then.

Yamani was last spotted in May at an unknown medical facility in London with his father, Musa, in photographs that made the rounds on social media showing the latter on a sick bed.

After the 14th general election, the Sipitang MP reportedly accompanied Musa to London for medical treatment on May 17.

Yamani was not with Musa when the latter returned to Sabah and was sworn in as Sibuga assemblyman on September 5.

He was also nowhere to be seen when Musa returned to Sabah from Kuala Lumpur for a court ruling on the originating summons to the chief minister’s post on November 7.

Speculation has been rife in Sabah political circles that Yamani is being sought by the authorities.

Yamani had been implicated in the destruction of a forest reserve in Tawau, involving the Tawau Green Energy Geothermal Power Plant.

Large tracts of jungle in Tawau were cleared in 2013 for the country’s first geothermal plant. Yamani is a majority shareholder in Tawau Green Energy Geothermal Power Plant. – January 4, 2019.