Providing services beyond call of duty

KANOWIT: Edwin Kupon proves that the role of polling agent is beyond monitoring people casting their votes.

The 40-year- old from Rumah Anyau in Nanga Ngungun helped an elderly woman who is unable to walk at Nanga Ngungun polling station here yesterday.

Edwin, or Ait to those who know him, was among polling agents appointed by Election Commission to monitor the election process in Nanga Ngungun.

According to him, the woman in her 80s earlier came to the polling station with her daughter.

The woman was given priority by the EC officials to cast her vote without queuing up with other voters outside the voting stream.

Edwin then saw her struggling to walk when she came out of the polling room after she cast her vote.

“Her daughter was still queuing up in another line outside another voting stream.

“So I told the elderly woman that I would help to send her home. She agreed because in Nanga Ngungun we know each other,” he said.

Ait then carried the woman to his vehicle parked outside the polling station.

He said being a polling agent for three times now, such gesture was not extraordinary.

“In fact, it is a good thing that the woman still wanted to exercise her right despite her disability,” he said.

BN was facing a straight fight with PKR in Kanowit.