: Speedy action led to recovery of missing two teenagers

TAWAU, A quick and determined effort by friends of the former Minister of Youth and Sport Sabah had resulted in the safe return of two underage youth in good health after they were found missing for the past three days and two nights.

The hunt began when the ex-Minister Brigadier General Datuk Liew Yun Fah and close friend Dato’ Yong Chi Fui took the initiative with close collaboration with police found the one boy aged 15 and a girl aged 12 at a secluded place apparently fleeing their homes.

`Liew’s effort had brought about the recovery of the two youth and they had been returned to their families safe and sound’, Yong said after the case came to an happy ending.

Liew was in the state capital when he received the call for help two days after the youth were found missing and had initiated a number of moves resulting in the search for the two youth.

Yong added that it was a speedy and concise moves by them led to the quick result. He also urges parents to play a more productive role in knowing their respective children and to prevent such a case from taking place again. `We don’t know yet why both the youth fled their homes but still parents need to be aware of their needs and prevent such thing from happening’, he explained later.

At the same time, Yong who took part in the search with another friend of Liew, Chen Fen Kyun and others seek out friends of the two youths to obtain their possible whereabout. He added that friends of the duo had given their fullest co-operation despite being called upon during early morning of the third day.

`We wish to apologize to them and thank them for their information leading to the recovery of the two children’, he added. Yong said this after they began their search to friends of the duo on the second evening until 4.00 am waking up their friends to obtain clues and moving on to seek the next information.

Yong and Chen continued their effort early in the morning on the next day after obtaining more information of the possible whereabout of the duo and they were finally found around 1.30pm.


Caption: Yong (right) and Chen with others at the house of a friend of the missing boy seeking information at 3.10am. pic 1