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He has epilepsy, blind, limping and tumour...

TNS, I am really busy today and really dun want to blog. But my bloody nosy nature ......sigh...

Blind seller: I was manhandled
KUALA LUMPUR: Blind Francis Selvam, 45, earns a living selling sweets and tissue paper in public places. Last Wednesday, City Hall enforcement officers roughly handcuffed him and hit him when, confused, he tried to resist being pushed into a lorry during a raid on beggars and illegal immigrants in Jalan P. Ramlee here. He is still not sure which agency, out of the three involved, was responsible for his rough treatment as he could not see them. The three government agencies were the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, Social Welfare Department and Immigration Department.

“This is the fourth time I am being arrested within a year for selling sweets. I asked the Malaysian Association for the Blind if I could get a licence to sell sweets and they told me there was no licence issued for this type of business. “I wish the Government would provide a licence for the blind to legally sell items to the public,” he told The Star. He makes about RM20 a day. “How can they arrest me when I am making an honest living selling sweets?” asked Selvam, who is on medication for epilepsy.

City Hall said Selvam was arrested for begging under the directive of a Social Welfare Department official. The department’s Federal Territory enforcement officer for beggars, Suhaimi Sujak, said they received reports that Selvam was asking for money and did not have his identity card with him. Selvam had left his MyKad at home but was able to show them his Kuala Lumpur Hospital card.

Selvam developed a brain tumour when he was six and surgery left him blind. Due to a weakness in his leg, he also has been walking with a limp since 1966. He is appealing to the authorities not to arrest him again and other blind people like him for trying to earn a living by selling sweets.

For goodness sake, I hope that our authorities (ALL 3 of them) could leave this man - blind, lame, has epilepsy and brain tumor, ALONE. No matter how rude, annoying or disturbing this Mr. Selvam is, please have mercy and leave him alone.....

Now, I want to laugh at these 3 agencies. If they used their BRAIN during the operasi...this thing will not be so embarrassing....

Kuala Lumpur City "Whore"
Social UN-Welfare Department
Irritation Department

Junior

posted by Junior @ 1:48 PM