Noorazlan Ismail, the 49-year-old taxi driver who claimed to have walked from Johor Bahru to Kuala Lumpur to draw attention to his plight, said he has gone as much as two days without sleep in achieving his feat.

“My sleep is irregular; it depends on my abilities. Sometimes I have gone two days without sleep,” he said in a video released last night.

He said this after claiming to have walked to Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur to draw attention to his plight and appeal to the government to allow targeted EPF withdrawals.

At the palace, he was also joined by...