YOURSAY 'Surely, if Abdul Latif is an illegal citizen, he couldn't care less if it was BN or whoever else ran the country...'

Pakistani voted twice, claims name still on roll

Ferdtan: I believe the identity card (IC) of the Pakistani who used the name Abdul Latif Jumaani, is 'real' in a true sense as the Immigration Department had accepted it to process his application for a passport in 2010.

In 2010, the IC scanning system was in place to verify the genuineness of the identity card and is linked to the National Registration Department's (NRD) database. So the main culprit is the NRD. They are the ones who gave out and/or duplicate identity cards to foreigners. That is traitorous.

The sorry state of affair was long ago alerted by then parliamentary opposition leader Lim Kit Siang in a March 30, 1993 statement.

His statement: "It is clear that NRD director-general Kamaruddin Nordin knew nothing of the syndicate involving senior NRD officers supplying new hi-tech identity cards to foreigners, which was disclosed by Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayob, in Perak on Sunday (March 28).

"He had to refer back to Megat Junid who said last Sunday that he had been informed by police that three senior NRD officers had been questioned in connection with the illegal supply of the cards to foreigners.

"The senior NRD officers were suspected to conspiring with the syndicate as the particulars of the new cards had been recorded in the department's computers but the applications had not received official vetting.

"He said that such ‘upstream cheating' involving senior NRD officers had been suspected to have gone on for a year. Megat also said another syndicate was responsible for supplying Malaysian birth certificates to Muslim foreigners here.

"Megat's revelations as well as Kamaruddin's ignorance have presented with a double shock."

The proof was all there in 1993 and the BN government hushed up this fraud by detaining the NRD officers under the Internal Security Act (ISA). Dr Mahathir Mohamad must answer for all this as he was the PM then.

Lim Chong Leong: What or who instigated Abdul Latif to vote? If he is just interested in the IC and therefore residency and citizenship perks, what was his motivation to vote?

Surely, if he is an illegal citizen, he could not care less if it was BN or whoever else ran the country, so what or who instigated him to vote? Why was that not put to the witness during the Sabah royal commission of inquiry (RCI)?

Up2U: These revelations are very, very serious matters involving national security, and those involved in the rampant and blatant issuing of identity cards for citizenship must be charged with treason.

There is no need to wait until the RCI is completed. A special task force must be set up immediately to start investigations immediately. The only problem is who can be entrusted to head and be in this special task force.

RA 1: Since Abdul Latif's child was born in Malaysia, the child is a Malaysian citizen. As a result, both parents can claim permanent resident as they have lived here more than five years. Case closed.

DontPlayGod: RA 1, but there are also hundreds of thousands of non-Muslims who were born here and whose applications for citizenship are still under process for the last 50 years, and by the look of things, since Umno has been returned to power, these applications will still be under process until their last days on this planet.

Don't bank on MCA, MIC, or even Hindraf to day anything about it.

Disgusted: Can anyone blame Pakatan Rakyat for saying that there is massive fraud created by BN with the help of the Election Commission (EC) to cheat in elections since Mahathir's reign.

Umno-BN has cheated not only in the recent GE, but in previous elections as well.

How can anyone trust EC to be impartial and fair? Bersih has been justified all this while. Mahathir and PM Najib Razak should be charged for treason for selling citizenship to foreigners to keep themselves in power.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, too, as he did nothing about it during his tenure as PM.

Mick: There is no point in telling all these. The best procedure is to take up the case in the court to have the election declared null and void because of these anomalies.

Documents, photos, videos should be submitted in support of the claim so that the authorities will be stopped from denying the facts. If you have proper evidence, the judge cannot reject the case. An eminent lawyer should be engaged to pursue the issue.

OMG!!: Pakatan, this is your best chance to do something for the Sabahans to win them over. Do something on the mounting evidence of treacherous acts. Don't wait for the conclusion of the RCI.

N Ng: I guess we all know why the phrase "Malaysia Boleh" was coined. The question is whether the RCI will be allowed to make it own conclusions, and whether anyone will be made to stand trial for it.

Doc: Maybe Abdul Latif mixed up the years as he may have voted in both Pakistani and Malaysian elections. After all, both these nation's elections are marred by vote rigging and electoral fraud.

The Mask: Sports and Youth Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said there was " not a shred of evidence ". What say you now?

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