KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today said that it was important for the people to ensure victory for Barisan Nasional (BN) in the 13th general election (GE13) as it still has to complete many unfinished tasks for the people’s wellbeing.
“We will return to Putrajaya because we still have many unfinished tasks. Major changes will take place in the country and all Malaysian citizens will get what they truly deserve,” he said.
The prime minister said all that had been done by the government were proofs that it did not make empty promises when it said it would take good care of the people with determination and high commitment.
Speaking at the presentation of citizenship certificates under MyDaftar Programme here today, Najib said he wanted a government that could uphold social justice, as well as capable of being fair and inclusive to all under the concept of 1Malaysia.
Looking at the encouraging response at the event, he said it was indeed a good sign for BN to retain power and to get bigger majority in the general election.
“It also reflects the high hope of the people for BN candidate to wrestle back Batu (parliamentary) constituency,” he said to the cheers of those present.
Najib said in conjunction with his 100th day in office on July 1, 2009, he had announced his commitment to find immediate solutions to several issues, including on late registration of births, citizenship application and entry permits.
With the commitment, he said 219,485 cases of late registration of birth, citizenship application and entry permit registered between 1997 and 2010 had been solved.
“These cases comprise 62,604 applications for citizenship, entry permit (18,162) and late registration of birth (138,719). This also proved that Home Ministry, including two special agencies, namely the National Registration Department (NRD) and the Immigration Department, had worked closely to achieve the desired target,” he said.
Under the MyDaftar programme, which was introduced in 2011, Najib said the government had solved 7,000 applications for identification document.
“Right now, we have 7,600 new applications and I believe all those applications are being processed,” he said.
Najib said the success was also due to the change in the mindsets of the officers and staff of the relevant agencies, who realised that the issues involved social justice and should be addressed immediately.
“We have also adopted the approach where we shouldn’t wait for the people to come to Putrajaya, but should be the ones to go find them, whether in the plantation, estates, Orang Asli villages and long houses in the rural areas,” he said.
As such, Najib said he wanted the two departments to continue doing their jobs and solve more of such cases.
On the opposition’s allegation that there were 300,000 Indian people who did not possess an identification document, Najib said it was a ridiculous allegation and shouldn’t be politicised.
“We called them. If 300,000 people have turned up, Putrajaya would have been badly congested, but only one per cent of them actually came.
“The opposition promised to solve the so-called 300,000 cases in just 100 days should they receive the mandate to rule the country. That means 3,000 cases must be solved in a day. That’s impossible. I don’t think it can be done. It is just another empty promises made by the opposition,” he said.
At the event, Najib also presented the certificates of citizenship to 100 applicants, entry permits (10) and birth certificates (10) and visited NRD’s mobile unit.
Also present were Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, Chief Secretary to the Government Datuk Seri Dr Ali Hamsa and Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar. — BERNAMA