After online anger, Kelantan exco says clamped car lacked OKU sticker

 

Social media was abuzz over an elderly couple left stranded after their car was clamped in Kota Bharu. (Facebook pic)

KOTA BHARU: A misunderstanding led to online anger over a disabled person and his wife having to wait two hours for their car to be unclamped after it was parked near a hospital, a state executive councillor said.

Dr Izani Husin said the car had been clamped because it did not have an OKU sticker, Bernama reported.

He said the disabled person was a passenger in the car and not the owner, who “is actually a normal person who clearly committed an offence by not displaying the sticker on the vehicle”.

Izani was responding to viral postings on social media yesterday which described the ordeal of the disabled person and his wife, a cancer patient, who were left stranded on the street as they could not pay the RM100 fee for the car to be unclamped.

According to social media postings, a man named Mustaqeem Yusoff helped the elderly couple by paying the compound fine to the city parking contractor.

The company, in a posting on Facebook, said a caller had informed the customer service centre that the disabled person was a passenger.

The caller agreed to make the payment and the order to unclamp the car was issued at 1.50pm. However, at 2pm, there was another call from the same person, who changed his statement, claiming that the driver of the vehicle was a disabled person, the report said. - FMT