Two years after the Sabah Air crash in 1976, which claimed the lives of Sabah chief minister Fuad Stephens and 10 others, the government had banned a book on one of its victims under the Internal Security Act.

Although the security law was repealed in 2012, the “Golden Son of the Kadazan”, which chronicles the life and career of former state minister Peter J Mojuntin, remains off the shelves.