COMMENT Some days into its hearing, the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) in Sabah on the extraordinary population explosion in this “Nation in Malaysia”, has opened a Pandora’s Box. But will there be hope left as in the mythical Pandora’s Box when it was finally shut, or will all hell break loose? In 2005, it was estimated that Sabah had a population of 3.2 million, of which only 1.5 million were locals.