SINGAPORE: “My late father looks like me.”
With this limited information, a Singaporean, who gave his name only as Muhd Imran, hopes to locate his other siblings in Malaysia.
Muhd Imran, 43, said he was made to understand that his late father had two more wives in Malaysia and his Singaporean mother was the third.
The search for his family by the father of two, who also has a twin brother, began in the month of Ramadan this year through a posting on social media.
“I want to find my siblings in Malaysia. I fear if this is not done, our children may get married to each other,” he said when contacted by Bernama.
Apart from resembling his late father, Muhd Imran said his father, a Malaysian, served with the British police in the Cantonment here around the 1960s.
“If he is still alive, my father would be in his 80s. He was better known as ‘Corporal Yusof or Yusop’,” said Muhd Imran, who was only informed of his father’s departure when he was 21 years old.
Muhd Imran said the people around him were hesitant to share more information about his father and he said the name of his father was not included in his birth certificate.
“My father used to live on Race Course Road and in Lorong Kuaman with my late mother, Saniah Marzuki.
“He also has a sister but I do not know her name,” he said.
Muhd Imran and his twin brother are the only children from the marriage, believed to have taken place in Malaysia around the late 1970s.
“I only saw my father in a photo years ago,” said Muhd Imran, who hoped his own photo will help in the search for the rest of the family.
Muhd Imran who lost his mother, better-known as “Niah”, in November 2010 is appealing to Malaysians and Singaporeans who know his family in Malaysia to contact him at +65 8383 2716.