KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 — Leaders of polls watchdog Bersih 2.0 have
expressed shock over accusations that a former minister had ordered the
National Registration Department’s (NRD) Sabah branch to enable illegal
immigrants to vote.
Yesterday, former Sabah NRD director Ramli Kamarudin told an inquiry panel that the late Tan Sri Megat Junid Megat Ayub had instructed him to provide immigrants with NRD receipts, temporary documents that allowed them to vote in a 1994 state election.
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Ambiga Sreenevasan, the Bersih 2.0 co-chair, described Ramli’s
testimony during a hearing before the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI)
on Sabah’s illegal immigrants as “shocking”, saying that this amounted
to electoral “fraud”.
“The evidence is shocking in one sense but on the other hand, this is
exactly what the people have been suspecting all along. What has
happened and is happening in Sabah is reported to be happening in West
Malaysia too! This is fraud and nothing less,” she told The Malaysian Insider when contacted yesterday.
She said that it suggested that there was a “conspiracy”, saying that there is “cause for grave concern”.
“It suggests a conspiracy at high levels. Of course it is not proper to comment fully yet until all the evidence is given and the other side of this sorry tale is told. For now I can say that what is surfacing is cause for grave concern.”
Maria Chin Abdullah, a Bersih 2.0 steering committee member, similarly expressed shock over what was testified during the RCI hearing yesterday.
“We are shocked but at the same time glad that these people are making such exposes as the EC (Election Commission) had denied that all this is happening.”
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Yesterday, former Sabah NRD director Ramli Kamarudin told an inquiry panel that the late Tan Sri Megat Junid Megat Ayub had instructed him to provide immigrants with NRD receipts, temporary documents that allowed them to vote in a 1994 state election.
Ambiga said the accusations amounted to electoral ‘fraud’. — File pic
She said that it suggested that there was a “conspiracy”, saying that there is “cause for grave concern”.
“It suggests a conspiracy at high levels. Of course it is not proper to comment fully yet until all the evidence is given and the other side of this sorry tale is told. For now I can say that what is surfacing is cause for grave concern.”
Maria Chin Abdullah, a Bersih 2.0 steering committee member, similarly expressed shock over what was testified during the RCI hearing yesterday.
“We are shocked but at the same time glad that these people are making such exposes as the EC (Election Commission) had denied that all this is happening.”
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