‘NRD’s G17 processed over 100k blue ICs for foreigners’
A special unit dubbed G17 operated out of the Sabah National Registration
Department (NRD) headquarters in Kota Kinabalu beginning 1990 and was
responsible for processing the application forms for some 100,000 blue identity
cards for immigrants, the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah was told today.
Kee Dzulkifly Kee Abdul Jalil, who was part of the unit, said he was tasked
to write down the names and numbers on the blue identity cards that was then
done manually before they were shipped to Kuala
Lumpur.
“I wrote down the names according to what is in the application forms that
were given to us,” he said, adding that the unit processed an estimated 100,000
such identity cards.
Furthermore, he said his unit was also responsible for issuing letters of
approval for birth certificates, which he estimated the unit had produced some
200,000 for the children of immigrants.
“This approval letter would allow them to get hospitals or district office
to issue them with a birth certificate,” he said. He admitted to being paid
RM80,000 for his work.
Primarily Muslims targeted
Beginning 1987, statutory declaration were no longer accepted for the
application of blue identity card and birth certificates were required.
He added that later, such applicants were charged RM300 each and the funds
were then channeled to G17.
He said the targets were primarily Muslims from Indonesia,
the Philippines and Pakistan, some
of whom were later recruited to work for unnamed political parties.
He was later detained under the Internal Security Act from 1995 until 1997,
followed by another year of house arrest.
Also testifying today were Kee Dzulkifly’s former NRD colleagues who were
all involved in the operation and detained under ISA, namely Asli Sidup, Alcop
Damsah @ Yakup Damsah, Nasit Sugip and their boss Ramli Kamaruddin.
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