MACC must explain

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) must explain if UMNO leaders are interfering in their investigation process or privy to their investigation. BN charging PR elected representatives to distract them from their political campaigns against BN’s misuse of power.

Two days ago, a tweet in the twitter account “Sungai Rapat” stated that YB Nga Kor Ming who is the MP of Taiping and the State Assemblyman for Pantai Remis will be charged in court soon with regard to a tailoring business in which his wife was a passive investor. (https://twitter.com/#!/sungairapat/status/184475844377444352)

The witnesses called by the DAP Disciplinary Committee include 6 Pakatan Rakyat Perak Government Executive Councillors and the Ipoh City Councillors who were in the tender committee have cleared YB Nga Kor Ming of any wrongdoings.

The twitter account “Sungai Rapat” is believed to be operated by the people engaged by current BN Perak State Government Senior Executive Councillor, Dato’ Hamidah bt. Osman as the said name refers to her state constituency.

If at all the contents of the tweet is true, I am puzzled as to how UMNO related people know of MACC’s decision while a case is still under investigation.

This matter is an issue of grave concern as MACC is clearly not independent if UMNO interferes in its investigations or is privy to the cases handled by MACC.

BN has caused many PR elected representatives to be falsely charged in court to distract them from the political campaigns against BN’s misuse of power. Among those PR elected representatives charged in court include YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, YB Karpal Singh, YB Tian Chua, YB Tony Pua, YB Lau Weng San, YB Mahfuz Omar, YB Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and YB Dr Hatta Ramli.

Hence, we call for MACC Chief Commissioner Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed to clear the air to maintain MACC’s integrity in this investigation.

29 March 2012
YB Ngeh Koo Ham
Member of Parliament for Beruas

MACC must explain

Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) must explain if UMNO leaders are interfering in their investigation process or privy to their investigation.

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Soalan-soalan jawapan bertulis dan lisan bagi Mesyuarat Pertama, Penggal Kelima‏

Soalan-Soalan Yang Memerlukan Jawapan Lisan dan Bertulis Bagi Mesyuarat Pertama, Penggal Kelima, Dewan Negeri Yang Kedua Belas Perak Darul Ridzuan mulai 3hb April, 2012. Tarikh : 16hb Mac 2012 Daripada : YB DATO’ NGEH KOO HAM (Kawasan Sitiawan) Soalan-Soalan yang memerlukan jawapan lisan 1. Bertanya kepada YAB Menteri Besar kenapa Kerajaan Negeri Perak BN meluluskan projek pusat penagihan bijih besi Syarikat Vale International untuk dibina di kawasan pelancongan Teluk Rubiah dan tidak di Tanjung Hantu yang dicadangkan oleh Kerajaan Negeri Perak Pakatan Rakyat

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Zambry making a cartoon (joke) out of the State of Perak

Media Statement

Najib & Zambry supported by MCA & Gerakan guilty of making a cartoon (a joke) of the State of Perak. The people of Perak suffer in consequence. Inabilility to restore the telephone lines to the State Secretariate & the Director of land and mines buildings after 3 weeks is the latest joke Zambry create out of Perak.

        Fresh from the ‘success’ of spinning the ‘Black Metallic Zambry’remark, BN appointed Perak Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Zambry bin Abdul Kadir in trying to split YB Nga Kor Ming’s one remark into 2 to try to score further political points. The remark made the YB Nga Kor Ming was ‘Hitam Metalik Zambry Menteri Besar Perak Darul Kartun’

    ‘Black Metallic Zambry’ was a humour adapted from the Black Metallic Camry which the BN opposed when the Perak PR government bought Black Metallic Toyota Camry cars to replace the ailing Proton Perdanas. The phrase was used because it rhymes.The skin colour of a person is never described as metallic. Zambry knew that Kor Ming was referring to the colour of the Camry car but played racial politics by twisting it to say it refers to the human skin colour. He makes a cartoon of himself when he twisted the remark to refer to darker skin people.This in the level BN appointed power crazy Menteri Besar will stoop.

        Now Zambry in trying to spin and say that YB Nga Kor Ming is disrespectful of the State when he described the State as ‘Perak Darul Kartun’

       Najib & Zambry supported by MCA & Gerakan are guilty of making the Perak State a cartoon (a joke) and yet Zambry is accusing  others of being disrespectful of the State.

       I am astonished that Zambry still did not realize that he has made the Perak State a joke due to his actions. Unfortunately, the people of Perak became victims and suffered in misery.

        The following incidences have made the Perak State a joke to many people : -

(i)          Democratically elected government ousted by non democratic means

(ii)         Refusal of BN to respect the wishes of the people by calling a fresh election.

(iii)        Not allowing the State Assembly Speaker (undisputed at that point of time) to convence a sitting at the State Assembly
               

         Hall and he was forced to conduct the sitting under a tree.

(iv) The State Assembly Speaker was forcibly removed from his seat in the State Assembly and imprisoned in a room.

(v)  State Budget passed within 20 minutes without debate.

(vi)  Microphones of opposition elected representatives switched off so that their speeches will not he heard and also not
         recorded in the Hansard.

(vii) Using the Police to invade and control the State Assembly.

(viii) Elected representatives not allowed to enter the State Assembly without permission of the police & civil servants
           stationed at the locked doors of the Assembly.

(ix) Elected representatives allowed into Assembly only if issued with a pass by the State Secretary. Even former BN Menteri
        Besar, Tan Sri Dato Seri Di Raja Tajol Rosli was offended and described it as demeaning.

(x)  Judges do not follow the law (precedents) when deciding on Perak crisis cases.

(xi) Laws are selectively applied (especially Article 72 of the Federal Constitution prohibiting interference of the Judiciary
        in matters of the State Assembly)

(xii) A court Registar can appoint a Court of Appeal Judge to sit and stay (suspend) the decision of the High Court judge who
         has declared Dato’ Sri Nizar Jamaluddin as the legitimate Menteri Besar when there were 2 other panel of 3 judges each
         of the Court of Appeal sitting on that day. The stay was granted within 24 hours!

(xiii) The swearing in of Zambly as Menteri Besar was obstructed and spontaneously objected to by thousand of protestors.

(xiv) BN Government refused to answer questions asked in the State Assembly without valid reason.

and the list can continue

         Zambry should stop making a clown of himself and continue to make the Perak State a cartoon by continuing to spin falsehood.

         Many investors have expressed their unwillingness to invest in the State of Perak until the illeginate government of Zambry is replaced. The Perakeans are unfortunately the victims who continue to suffer in consequent of Zambry continuing to make a cartoon of the Perak State.

          The latest joke Zambry created out of Perak is that the telephone lines to the State Secretariate and the Director of land and mines buildings (both buildings form the seat of administration of the Government of Perak) have yet to be restored despite having been down for the last 3 weeks.

          Let the people of Perak be reminded of these black days of Perak after the grab of power by BN since February 2009 and be united to oust the undemocratically installed BN government in the coming General Election.

Dated this 8^th December, 2011.

NGEH KOO HAM
Chairman Of DAP Perak
State Assemly for Sitiawan & Member of Parliament for Beruas

Irregularities in the award of contracts by Rural Development Ministry costing the people at least RM500,000,000.00‏

Media Statement by YB Ngeh Koo Ham, Member of Parliament for Beruas in Parliament on the 10^th Nov 2011:

Irregularities in the award of contracts in the Ministry of Rural Development, at least Five Hundred Million Ringgit (RM 500,000,000.00) could have been saved! MACC must conduct investigation immediately.

The Minister of Rural Development must explain the irregularities in the award of contracts in his ministry. There are reasons to suspect the existence of rampant corrupt practices. As much as RM 500,000,000.00 could have been saved had the Ministry followed the proper practice of awarding contract to the lowest qualified tenders.  

I stayed up till 10.30pm in Parliament on Monday (8/11/2011) to debate and to wait for the answer from the Ministry of Rural Development with regard to the issues I had raised. I was greatly disappointed when the Deputy Minister of the Ministry refused to answer my questions.

The Rural Development Ministry is awarding 209 projects for the year 2011 and they are numbered KKLW 1/2011 – 209/2011. The Ministry has announced only the award of 129 projects. I have asked what has happened to the other 80 projects. The Deputy has refused to reply.

The projects under the ministry were given by direct negotiation, limited tender or open tender.

I have asked why projects like the Sarawak Rural Water Supply worth RM638,910,000.00 was given through direct negotiation. The Deputy has refused to give an answer. Other projects given through direct negotiation were the Sarawak Rural Water Supply recticulation system worth RM83,860,000.00 and the Sarawak Special Rural water Supply 2011/2012 project worth RM555,050,000.00

I have informed the Deputy Minister that I have received complaints that the companies that submitted the quotations for projects under limited tender category in many cases were in fact submitted by the same person using different names. The Ministry did not invite separate independent companies to bid for the job. The Deputy Minister also refused to answer whether the allegation is true. Projects No. 9–13, 23–40, 43-46, 51-56, 60, 69-75, 82-92, 100, 101, 110, 115 116, 118-124, 131, 132, 143 and 144/2011 (68 of them) were projects awarded through limited tenders.

Although open tenders were conducted for the 68 projects as listed in the schedule hereto, all were not given to the lowest priced bidder except for one. Many of them were awarded at many times more than the lowest price tendered.

The Government lost RM403,857,592.72 for its failure to give to the lowest qualified tenders. The proper way to conduct an open tender is to first determine those qualified to bid for the job. Once the qualifying criteria for the tender have been met, the contract must be awarded to the bidder who submits the lowest bid. Such a system will save the government money and be fair to all those who have make the effort to submit the tenders.

After taking into consideration, the loss the government suffered through direct negotiation and limited tender projects, I estimate the people lose at least Rm500,000,000.00 through the improper way the above said contracts were awarded.

I call on the government to award the balance projects that have yet to be given out to be done in accordance to the abovesaid accepted proper procedure of open tender system.

Unless a satisfactory answer is forth coming from the Minister, I call on the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) to immediately conduct investigation as the facts show prima facie that rampant corruption exists in the award of the above said contracts.

 Ngeh Koo Ham

Schedule of 68 contracts awarded by open tender. Comparison of contract price awarded with that of the lowest bidder

Zambry wants to cover up issue by filing a suit‏

MEDIA STATEMENT

Filing a suit does not clear the name of BN Perak MB, Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir and his administration but only goes to show that they have something to hide.

BN Perak Menteri Besar, Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir has been reported in the media yesterday (23/10/2011) that he will be filing a suit against me for my statement that he and his administration has approved a total of 68,503 acres of land since 2009 till July 2011. The statement was issued by me in pursuant to my duty as an elected representative. It was not a personal attack on Dato’ Seri Zambry but a demand by the people that he and his administration be transparent in the award of state lands.

I stand by what I have said and awaits the summons from him.

Dato’ Seri Zambry’s threat to sue me only goes to prove that he and his administration have something to hide. As a Menteri Besar he has a duty to answer to the elected representatives of the people of whom I am one. Dato’ Seri Zambry has not denied that his administration has approved the abovesaid 68,503 acres of land. My only challenge to him was to disclose the names of the recipients of the said lands and to explain why he has approved 60,561.75 acres of industrial/agriculture land at about RM375 per acre only. 

Filing the suit against me only goes to show that he and his administration are not transparent and have something to hide. He hopes to silent me by filing the suit so that this matter can no longer be brought up for public discussion as it will be sub-judice. The hearing of the suit will take a few years. I expect Dato Seri Zambry to withdraw the suit after this coming 13^th General Election and pay me some costs which he will be happy to do in order to avoid public scrutiny over this issue pending the 13^th General Election. His action will be an abuse of the court process.

The public has the right to demand that Dato Seri Zambry and his administration be transparent and disclose the names of all the recipients of the 68,503 acres of land.

Dated this 24^th day of October 2011.

DATO’ NGEH KOO HAM
MP for Beruas &  State Assemblyman for Sitiawan

Lapuran SPRM terhadap kelulusan tanah 68,503 ekar oleh Zambry‏

Kenyataan Akhbar Pada jam lebih kurang 11.30 pagi ini saya akan pergi ke pejabat Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah Malaysia di Ipoh untuk membuat lapuran terhadap Kerajaan BN Negeri Perak yang di pimpin oleh Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir. Saya telah menerima maklumat yang kukuh bahawa Kerajaan BN Perak yang dipimpin oleh Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir telah meluluskan tanah-tanah berikut sejak 2009 hingga Julai 2011. (i) Kuari (a) Keluasan : 528.5582 ekar (b) Premium : RM7,099,250.00 (ii) Lombong (a) Keluasan : 4,502.965 ekar (b) Premium : RM297,357.00 (iii) Skim Perumahan (a) Keluasan : 2,910.61 ekar (a) Premium : RM123,534,786.00 (iv) Skim Industri/Pertanian (a) Keluasan : 60,561.73 ekar (a) Premium : RM22,696,910.00 Saya telah berkali-kali dalam Dewan Undang Negeri dan melalui media meminta Dato’ Seri Zambry untuk mengumumkan dan menyenaraikan nama-nama penerima-penerima tanah-tanah tersebut tetapi beliau telah enggan berbuat demikian.

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DAP Perak 16th Annual Convention at Ritz Garden Hotel, Ipoh on 9th October 2011

Speech by Sdr Ngeh Koo Ham, DAP Perak Chairman at the DAP Perak 16^th Annual Convention at Ritz Garden Hotel, Ipoh on 9^th October 2011 at 10.00 am

 ‘We Can. We Must. We Will.’

1. We can take back State authority in Perak and also to take Putrajaya.

Immediately after BN’s grab of power in Perak on 6^th Feb 2009, a survey conducted showed that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) would be able to win 40 out of the 59 State Assembly seats in Perak had the State election been held then. There was outrage throughout the State and nation wide.  The outrage has subsided but a survey conducted in July this year showed that PR can still win 33 out of the 59 seats if election is called.

            We can take back State authority with the support of the people of Perak.

We must however, not be complacent. PR has 8 seats where we won in 2008 with less than 1,000 votes. On the other hand, we can also win big as BN has 10 seats which they won by less than 1000 votes (3 of which won by less than a 100 votes). We can win 41 seats to form a very stable government if these seats fall into our hands. PR won 31 seats in 2008. We can do it. Let’s work hard to achieve it for the people.

In every disaster, there is a silver lining. In every crisis there is opportunity. The grab of power by BN in Perak will probably be proven to be instrumental to the defeat of BN at the Federal level in the coming general elections. The people will be able to see the true self of the chief architect in the Perak power grab, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak. They will not fall for his slogans. They will not give him the chance people normally do when a new Prime Minister comes to office. Similarly Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir will not have the benefit of newly assuming office as the new Menteri Besar. The people see him through and through. His thousands of banners and billboards (the largest number in the history of Perak) trying to portray himself in good light will not be able to deceive the people.

The people also see the true colours of Parti Gerakan, MCA and MIC who participated and endorsed the power grab. In every democratic country, from USA to UK to Japan, we see Prime Minister, Ministers and even police chiefs bow apologically in shame and resign from their posts if there is a scandal or failure on their part even though they were legitimately elected or appointed.

Only in Perak and in Malaysia, we see Najib and Zambry after grabbing power trumpeted their success, putting up banners and billboards to promote themselves.

1. We Must

We must rectify the situation. We must restore morality, integrity, dignity and righteousness to this beloved nation of Malaysia. If we allowed the grab of power in Perak to go unpunished, we are sending a message to our children and our children’s children that robbing and stealing are permissible so long as we achieve our purpose. A nation without morality, integrity, dignity and righteousness is doomed to fail.

We must save our nation from BN’s corruption, abuse of power and mismanagement which will eventually lead us to bankruptcy. We must strengthen the democratic institutions in our country. We must ensure transparency, good governance and democratic principles and values are upheld.

We must ensure that which has happened to the Perak State Assembly must never be allowed to occur again. We must restore the Perak State Assembly to its rightful place. We must make right the Perak crisis court cases where judges do not follow the law.

Under the impression that he is secured with the police on his side and immune from the law, Zambry has approved 60,561.33 acres of industrial/agricultural land at an average price of RM375 per acre since the grab of power. Despite repeated demands, he has refused to disclose the names of the receipients. We can only assume that most of these lands were approved to his or BN cronies. If Zambry and his or BN’s cronies were to benefit RM20,000-00 per’s acre from these approvals, they would have made a staggering RM1.2 billion far exceeding the Perak State Government’s annual budget! We must demand transparency.

Prime Minister Tun Hussein Onn expressed his worry when our nation was indebted in the sum of RM20.0 billion. Tun Mahathir has allowed it to balloon to RM238.3 billion when he left office in 2003. Tun Abdullah Badawi allowed it to grow to RM313 billion.

Today our nation is indebted to the tune of RM455 billion about 53.8% of our GDP. Argentina became a bankrupt nation when its national debt reached US95 billion (RM285 billion). Many more nations in Europe are facing bankruptcy. Malaysians must not think that our nation can never be bankrupt. Each Malaysian is now indebted about RM16,000-00 or RM80,000-00 per family of 5 persons!

2012 Budget sees us in deficit of another RM51.2 billion.  Estimated income is RM181.6 billion while the expenditure is RM232.8 billion.  Repayment of debt for 2012 has reached RM20.45 billion.

Unless a debt is incurred in order to earn more money, every debt incurred by us is to use up the money belonging to our future generations. We must let the people realize that the goodies given by BN during elections to cover up their excesses and corruption only add on to their sorrows to come.  We do not want our children to curse us for the sufferings they have to endure due to our failure to prevent BN from making our nation a bankrupt nation.

We Will

We will together with other Pakatan Rakyat parties work tirelessly to save this nation from possible bankruptcy.  We will work to enhance the quality of education and the quality of our universities.  We will restore, uphold and strengthened the democratic institutions of this country.  We will make Malaysia a better place for all Malaysians.  We will surmount the challenges ahead of us together.  We together reaffirm that we can, we must and we will take back state authority in Perak and take power in Putrajaya.

We Can. We Must. We Will.

YB DATO’  NGEH KOO HAM
DAP Perak Chairman
MP for Beruas & State Assemblyman for Sitiawan

Zaki’s admission voids MB vs MB trial

The Federal Court rulings on cases involving the Perak constitutional crisis should be considered void because of former Chief Justice Zaki Azmi’s admission that he had no part in forming the panel which heard them, said Perak DAP.

Perak DAP chairperson Ngeh Khoo Ham said that Zaki’s admission that he did not empanel the five-member panel which heard Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin’s case was wrong in law.

Citing Malaysian Bar vs Tan Sri Dato Abdul Hamid bin Omar [1989] 2 MLJ page 281, he said that the Supreme Court had in 1989 ruled that a Federal Court panel can only be empaneled by the chief justice.

“By virtue of this Supreme Court decision, the highest court in the land, empaneling a Federal Court bench by any other person is not allowed.

“Therefore the Federal Court decisions in regard to the Perak crisis cases are void,” Ngeh (right) told Malaysiakini.

Only CJ can constitute panel

In 1989, the case of the Malaysian Bar against former Lord President Abdul Hamid Omar, the Federal Court had ruled that only the lord president alone is entitled to convene and empanel judges to constitute the Supreme Court for any sitting.

“The powers of the lord president or any person acting as lord president under Section 38 and 39 of the (Courts of Judicature Act) are express statutory powers which cannot be exercised by others unless properly exercised under s 9(1) of the Act during illness or absence from Malaysia or owing to any other cause when the lord president is unable to exercise the functions of his office.

“We read the words ‘any other cause’ in s 9(1) to relate to physical inability in the sense that the lord president is unable to perform his functions,” read the judgment.

In an interview with Malaysiakini on Sept 12, Zaki had said he had instructed his deputy, Court of Appeal president Alauddin Md Sheriff, to handle the Perak crisis related cases when it came up to the Federal Court.

Zaki said that he did not want to be involved in the cases as he did not wanted to be accused of conflict of interest as he had once been heavily involved with Umno.

“I did not sit on any cases which were not only political, but had a flavour of politics. I did not even constitute the panel. I told my Number Two: ‘You go to constitute (form) the panel. I don’t want’,” said Zaki.

‘New CJ must right wrongs’

Ngeh, who is a senior lawyer, argued that since the decisions of the Federal Court were now void, it was incumbent upon the current Chief Justice Ariffin Zakaria to constitute a new panel to hear Nizar’s case.

“Since the Perak cases have not been disposed off, we call upon the present chief justice, to convene a new panel, to review the decisions that have been made by the earlier unlawfully convened Federal Court hearing,” he said.

In the same vein, Ngeh said Zaki’s (left) revelation in the same interview that a court registrar had arranged for a single Court of Appeal judge to hear Zambry Abdul Kadir’s application on May 12, 2009 had also raised questions.

“How can a registrar have the powers to call on a Court of Appeal judge to hear a case?” said Ngeh, explaining that such powers lie with the Court of Appeal president.

On May 11, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled in favour of Nizar’s application to be declared the legitimate Perak menteri besar.

But in less than a day, Zambry managed to obtained a stay of execution order from the Court of Appeal. His application was heard by a single judge – Justice Ramly Ali – despite there being two three-member panels hearing cases that day.

This fact, along with the swiftness in which the stay was granted, has led Nizar and his counsel to question the court’s integrity.

 Andrew Ong
Oct 1, 2011  2:39pm

Foreigners Can Vote in Malaysia !‏

Media Statement

Clear proofs that non citizens have been registered as voters. Deputy Prime Minister and the Election Commission must no longer be in denial mode.

I am disappointed that Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the Election Commission continue to deny that there are foreigners who are registered as voters in this country.

The following and foreigners are registered in my constituency of Beruas ;

      Origin                                                                       Mykad No.                               

1.    Ghafar Bin Kaum                                                631020125267            Pakistani

2.    Hawa Binti Ochik                                                201028715448            Indonesian

3.    Ahmaddin Bin Rasid                                            600210125119            Pakistani

4.    Bo Rashid Bin Jabboonam                                  091231617267            Indonesian

5.    Arudkanth a/l V. Rajandran                             690606085119            Sri Langka

6.    Jahatanor Binti Ahmad                                     480811085446            Jawa

7.    Matali Bin Yasir                                                    470110105759            Jawa

8.    Esah @ Pesah Binti Mat Saman                      301102715082            Siamese

However, a check with the National Registration Department shows that there are no person with such Mykad numbers. The likelihood is that these foreigners have been issued unauthorised Mykads and they have manage to register themselves as voters. On polling day they will be allowed to vote using their Mykads because nobody will know that their Mykads are fake ones. As their names appear in the Voters’ list, they will be allowed to vote.

I also discover the following foreigners who have successfully applied for genuine Mykads and have registered as voters in my constituency:-

               Origin                                                               Mykad No.                

1.    Ngoh Boi Teong                                                   420815715105            Siamese

2.    Janah Binti Toh Kee Jo                                     520417085636            Jawa

3.    Eyam a/p Ooi Ah Kie                                          600210095124            Jawa

4.    Baharudin Bin Throot                                        540617085479            Siamese

5.    Nor Asiah Binti Hamsin                                      620529085380            Jawa

6.    Sugumaran a/l Murugan                                   761130086065            Bangladeshi

7.    Mustapa Bin Haji Jamil                                        370817085159            Jawa

8.    Chaali a/p Ai Klin                                                   720727025256            Siamese

9.    Bahorom Bin Ngadir                                                510110085747            Jawa

10.  Hassan Khan Bin Rahnatullah Khan                 730403085227            Pakistani

11.  Munaver Ahmad Bin Nazir Ahmad                     730822085045           Pakistani

12.  Sugarang @ Sughran Bibi Binti Md Yusof          440202085268            Pakistani

13.  Mohamad Bin Ibrahim                                              591028125065            Pakistani

14.  Barry Patrick Morgan @ Yusof Bin Abdulla        260902715189            European

15.  Jariah Binti Wagiman                                                470913085616            Jawa

It is a well known fact that many foreigners have been able to obtain Mykads with ease. The complaints I receive is that it will be easier for foreigners to obtain the Malaysian citizenship if they are Muslims.

It has been so difficult for many Malaysian born residents to obtain citizenship for various reasons. Just like the case of Chan Ming Ying, aged 31 who was born in Malaysia and has been living in Malaysia whole of his life. He studied in Sekolah Rendah (c) in Sg Batu and Sekolah Menengah Pantai Remis both in Perak and subsequently in the Johor Bahru Polytechnic. His only ‘sin’ is that his Chinese parents adopted him without  going through the proper legal procedure. His adoptive Chinese parents have put their names into his birth certificate as the natural parents which is quite a common practice. His case was detected because his natural father was a Chinese and mother an Indian. His natural parents can no longer be traced. So, his skin is a little darker and therefore, the NRD refused to recognize him as a citizen. He is now a state less person holding a green card which allow him to stay in Malaysia only temporarily.

I call on the Home Minister and the Election Commission to clarify and rectify the above said matters.

Dated this 22^nd day of September 2011.

NGEH KOO HAM
Chairman of DAP Perak
MP for Beruas & State Assemblyman for Sitiawan