'Backpackers' can well afford to rent a room, reveals exco


EXCLUSIVE: JOHOR BARU: Most of the “backpackers” squatting at the Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) Complex can afford to rent a room here or even across the causeway.

State Women and Family Affairs Committee chairman Asiah Md Ariff, who said this, added that most of the vagrants were earning monthly wages of between S$1,000 (RM2,561) and S$2,000 (RM5,123).

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