Sungai Besar Umno division chief Jamal Md Yunos has announced plans to offer free food to 1,000 Malaysians every single day for the next three years.

To be served at his Gabungan NGO 1Malaysia restaurant, which he launched today, he said the idea came to him after he realised that material wealth could not be brought with him to the afterlife.

“This realisation came from my friend who died two months ago. After I buried him, that’s when the realisation came,” he told reporters today.

He hoped news of this programme would receive wide publicity so that underprivileged Malaysians will benefit.