Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein today deflected further questions about a MyKad scam that supposedly took place at a holiday resort in Bangi on Oct 12 to give citizenship to some 240 Indonesians, Bangladeshis and Cambodians.
"Issues like these smell of politics and have been used to haunt and distract the public," Hishammuddin (left) said at a press conference in Parliament House today.
Instead of going to town with it, he said, the opposition should take its allegations to the parliamentary select committee for electoral reform.
"That is the proper forum, a committee that even has opposition members in it, formed to look into such claims," Hishammuddin said.
However, when asked if there is an investigation on the alleged incident, Hishammuddin was unable to give an explanation, claiming ignorance of the matter.
"But our investigations are always ongoing and when we have something, it will be tabled at the proper time and in the proper forum," assured Hishammuddin.
PAS Youth, which exposedthe matter, said the foreigners were brought to Putrajaya that day in six buses from Johor to be provided with citizenship, on grounds that they have pledged to vote for the BN in elections.
The Islamic party also claimed that police officers were purportedly seen onboard the buses, while several National Registration Department (NRD) officials were allegedly attending to the foreigners.
However, Sepang district police, who initially refused to speak to the media, explained the next day that the foreigners were at a Bangi resort to attend "an entrepreneurship course", which the PAS Youth slammed as "not believable".
He also denied the PAS allegation that it was involved in the programme to grant citizenship to foreigners.
"Thus far, there has been no information about any programme at all in the last two or three days," NRD public relations officer Jainisah Mohd Nor said on Oct 13.
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