Sabah girl gets NRD's support
KOTA KINABALU: The National Registration Department will investigate claims that a 19-year-old local girl was told by one of its officers to apply for a new identity after her MyKad was issued to another person.
Putrajaya NRD public relations officer Jainisah Mohd Noor said under no circumstances would a person be asked to change his identity.
"We don't have such a system whereby someone takes another identity if their personal particulars are being used by another person," she said.
Jainisah said the MyKad was issued based on the particulars of the birth certificate.
She was responding to a report in which Sandakan girl Siti Rositah Mustapah was told by an NRD officer in Kota Kinabalu to apply for a new identity as her MyKad was issued to another person. She was also called an impostor.
Rositah, whose parents and seven other siblings are Malaysians, lodged a police report on Friday after she refused to take up a new identity as all school certificates were under her present name.
She had made an application for a MyKad in 2005 but every time she checked, the NRD told her it was not ready and she was finally asked to go directly to the state NRD headquarters here last week.
Jainisah advised Rositah to return to the state NRD headquarters to look into the matter and said her case would be investigated and resolved promptly.
