The National Registration Department (NRD) today cleared the air about claims
that permanent residents were offered citizenships for votes, saying that it was
in fact part of a drive to clear its backlog. In a statement late today, NRD director-general Jariah Mohd Said
said that this involved the case of Mismah, which has received much media
coverage. “Claims that she was awarded
citizenship within four hours is untrue. Records show that she was granted
permanent residency on July 17, 1982. “Her citizenship application was granted on Jan 31, 2011 under
Article 19 of the federal constitution, after 29 years as a permanent resident,”
she said.
She added that the Home Ministry had approved citizenships for 29,290 people between April 9, 2009 and July 15, 2011 as part of Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's key performance index (KPI). This is out of more than 72,334 pending applications for citizenships. “219, 000 applications were resolved, including 72,334 citizenship applications, 31,449 applications for permanent residency, 108,906 applications following late registrations of birth and 6,311 applications under the MyDaftar programmes,” she said.
PAS today disputed the registration of 1,597 voters on the supplementary electoral roll draft for voters registered up to the end of June, who were listed on the NRD website as permanent residents. This had included Mismah, whose status was changed from permanent resident to citizen on the NRD yesterday, within hours of Malaysiakini's report on the matter. In response, Election Commission chairperson Abdul Aziz Yusof said that this was due to “technical negligence” whereby the NRD system was not updated. The publicly-accessible system on its website, he explained, is separate from the automatically-synced system between the Election Commission and the NRD.
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She added that the Home Ministry had approved citizenships for 29,290 people between April 9, 2009 and July 15, 2011 as part of Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's key performance index (KPI). This is out of more than 72,334 pending applications for citizenships. “219, 000 applications were resolved, including 72,334 citizenship applications, 31,449 applications for permanent residency, 108,906 applications following late registrations of birth and 6,311 applications under the MyDaftar programmes,” she said.
PAS today disputed the registration of 1,597 voters on the supplementary electoral roll draft for voters registered up to the end of June, who were listed on the NRD website as permanent residents. This had included Mismah, whose status was changed from permanent resident to citizen on the NRD yesterday, within hours of Malaysiakini's report on the matter. In response, Election Commission chairperson Abdul Aziz Yusof said that this was due to “technical negligence” whereby the NRD system was not updated. The publicly-accessible system on its website, he explained, is separate from the automatically-synced system between the Election Commission and the NRD.
Source : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/171921
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