KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 – Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said today he was sad that 99-year-old Chong Yik Sheng had died before his MyKad could be delivered to him.
Chong died yesterday, the very day a representative of the ministry was to have delivered the personal identification document to him, according to Hishammuddin.
Chong had wished fervently to have his MyKad in his hand before he attained the age of 100 and to die as a Malaysian.
“Nevertheless, I know that Chong, wherever he may be now, knows that we have been sincere in fulfilling his wish to have his MyKad,” Hishammuddin told reporters at the lobby of Parliament, here.
Sin Chew Daily had published on Oct 3 the story of Chong, who claimed to have returned to Malaysia at the age of 58 after he had been taken to Thailand by invading Japanese soldiers and had not applied for Malaysian citizenship.
He was born in Serdang, Selangor, in 1910 and had said that all his three wives and a child had died while two children were believed to be in Thailand.
Earlier this month, a team of officers from the National Registration Department had visited Chong to get his thumbprints to process documents necessary for issuing the MyKad. – Bernama
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