Publication Date : 17-06-2013
An Indian national who obtained a Malaysian identity card just two years after arriving in Sabah told the Royal Commission of Inquiry that he wants to remain in Malaysia no matter what happens.
Peer Mohamad Kadir, 53, said he arrived in Sabah in 1984 using an Indian passport and heard about a programme where foreigners were given the Malaysian identity cards but did not manage to apply for it.
"I only applied for it through an uncle in 1986, and got the plastic blue IC sometime in 1986 and later the 'Bunga Raya IC," he said on Monday.
Peer said he got the IC with a '12' on it indicating that a person was born in Sabah, and later changed the IC to the blue MyKad after losing the previous one in 1992.
When asked by the conducting office Jamil Aripin whether the number '12' should not be printed in the IC and that the information was incorrect and not according to law, Peer refused to answer.
Peer said he did not want to be sent back to India and wanted to remain in Sabah as he already had a family and two wives - an Indian and a Filipina - and four children here.
"I like it here and want to remain here, I don't know what will happen but I want to be here," he stressed.
Peer was among several Indian nationals registered with the Indian Muslim Chamber of Commerce Sabah being alleged as illegal immigrants according to an online news portal, Sabahkini.
He is a registered voter, casted his ballot more than four times including at a by-election, was a member of the Malaysia People's Volunteer Corps (RELA) and a Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia (BR1M) recipient.
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