Saturday September 27, 2008
Issue IC, Sultan tells NRD
IPOH: The Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah has ordered the National Registration Department (NRD) to issue a temporary identity card to R. Ragu, who had sought the Sultan’s help to apply for a MyKad.
Perak executive councillor A. Sivanesan said the NRD must give Ragu, 33, the temporary identity card before the Hari Raya celebrations.
Welcome relief: Ragu (top left) and his family members leaving Istana Kinta in Ipoh yesterday. ”They will have to issue the temporary identity card by Monday or Tuesday as ordered by the Sultan,” said Sivanesan.
”He was very sympathetic towards Ragu and said his problem should not have happened,” he told reporters outside the Istana Kinta after meeting with the Sultan here yesterday.
Sivanesan said Ragu, an odd-job worker, would need to get his temporary identity card first and apply for the MyKad later.
”I will try my best to help him with his application to get his citizenship,” he added.
Ragu, who was also outside Istana Kinta here, said he was still unhappy as he had yet to obtain his citizenship.
”I’m a Malaysian citizen, why can’t I get citizenship like everyone else?” he added.
Odd job worker Ragu has been carrying a temporary identity card since 1998 because he was unable to obtain a permanent identity card. He had to renew his temporary identity card annually.
He was abandoned by his parents at the age of four in Parit Buntar and had been under the Social Welfare Department’s care until he was 16.
Meanwhile, Deputy Home Minis- ter Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh said in Putrajaya that the National Registration Department (NRD) will help stateless people who are seeking birth certificates and MyKad but it will take time.
He said the department handled tens of thousands of applications at one go and had to scrutinise each application carefully.
“The department has to vet the applications on a case-by-case basis as every problem has its own inherent issue,” he said.
He added that the NRD had no intention of delaying applications for birth certificates and MyKad by the over 30,000 stateless people reported to be in the country.
“It is not true that the department only takes action the moment a stateless person’s complaint comes out in the media,” he told reporters yesterday.
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