KOTA MARUDU: The National Registration Department and the office of the Kota Marudu member of parliament will conduct a special registration exercise from today (July 26) to assist rural village folks to register for their birth certificates and identity cards.
The two-day mobile exercise will be held at Kampung Damai in Tandek and Kampung Melangkap in Marak Parak.
Up till now, more than 10,000 paperless natives or locals of Kota Marudu constituency have received their birth certificates and identity cards, with the help of Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili.
The Kota Marudu MP said this would be the eighth series of exercise conducted by the MP office and the NRD, which began in 2002.
He said the current joint exercise had identified several villagers living at the lowland, coastal and highland areas, who had yet to obtain their important documents due to their remote location and inaccessibility.
“Hence, the special exercise brings to them the services of the NRD to ease their registration. Without these documents they and their children would face many problems in life including having their citizenship questioned,” he said.
He added that the continuing effort by the NRD and the MP office was to assist the natives obtain their documents, hence resolving their citizenship problem.
“Up till now we have registered more than 10,000 paperless natives or locals of Kota Marudu constituency, for their birth certificates and identity cards,” said Dr Ongkili.
He has spent RM300,000 of his MP allocation for the exercises, to address the woes of the undocumented villages and their children who would otherwise live in a quandary over their identities.
“I urge those who have already been identified as not having the necessary documents to come and utilise the services rendered to them during the two-day special exercise,” he said, adding the exercise had assisted many villagers.