How could a PKR election candidate hold two ICs?


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 28 Oct 2018

KOTA KINABALU: How could a PKR member, who was arrested by graft investigators, have been allegedly holding two Malaysian identity cards (ICs)? That's what the Opposition Parti Bersatu Sabah wants the National Registration Department (NRD) to find out.

PBS secretary-general Datuk Johnny Mositun (pic) said that it shocking to learn that the PKR candidate contesting the party’s Kimanis division chairman post had been found to hold two MyKads (ICs).

Mositun said the NRD should explain how the man was able to obtain two ICs for himself, as seems evident when he was arrested by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Agency (MACC) two days ago.

“More confusing, a letter from the NRD was produced by those making the arrest, meaning that the NRD had knowledge about the man holding two MyKads.

“At least that’s how it looks. Both the NRD and the Chief Minister’s Office are obliged to give a proper explanation to the rakyat and should not brush it off as a minor thing,” he said, when speaking to PBS Pantai Manis, Bongawan and Kawang members in Papar on Sunday (Oct 28).

Two PKR members from Sabah’s south-western Beaufort area were arrested for alleged money politics by MACC on Friday (Oct 26) but it was learned one of them had two ICs.

It is alleged that the suspect had obtained a fresh IC after he was declared a bankrupt in 2010. 

It is not known if the IC number and name used were the same as his original or different.

Mositun urged the state government to seriously look into the long standing problem of foreigners and also non-citizens getting MyKads.

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