The protest of an Indian national against his arrest has proven that the National Registration Department has been involved in the illegal issuance of ICs (citizenship cards) to foreigners.
The Daily Express (26th August 2009) had reported that Mohamed Kani Majid, 43 an Indian national was arrested for being an illegal immigrant. Majid however protested, saying his arrest was illegal as he was issued an IC by the NRD along with about 100 Indians and Pakistanis in 1994. He claimed the project under which he and other South Asians obtained ICs was called IC Projek Pedalaman (Interior IC Project).
This is the third time the illegal issuance of ICs to foreigners have been admitted by the foreigners themselves. The first one was by Salman Majid, a Pakistani who had his dubious citizenship revoked after a business deal gone wrong with a local. The second was when two Filipinos in 2008 asked Sabahans to forget and forgive while flashing their illegally obtained ICs on the front page of the Daily Express. Majid's case is the third!
It is also a wonder that Majid obtained his IC through an interior IC project, when there are many indigenous folks from the interior who have yet to get their ICs.
The government better revoke the citizenship of all these dubious citizens. Or else more embarassing revelations will come to light. The NRD too needs a total overhaul.
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3 comments:
It is strange that 1-2 millions are in Sabah under Project IC.
Why NRD only taking action on one or two or three just as a window dressing.
NRD should do much more....
Joshua Kong
i think the NRD ppl are too busy following orders to promote the 1Malaysia project to notice this.
in Jakarta Globe (newspaper) dated 27 April 2009, article "Unequal Malaysia and Indonesia", claims that:
"In politics, we helped Malaysia by sending hundreds of thousand citizens in a secret operation to increase its Malay ethic population"
this may help to explain...
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