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A PENNILESS man hell-bent on finding work in Johor has decided to walk more than 300 km on the North South Expressway from Kuala Lumpur to Johor Baru, surviving on the scraps he can find at rest areas.
Ustaz Ebit Lew (pix), who is known to reach out to the less fortunate, said the latter had rejected his offer of help, insisting that he would walk to his destination.
Lew’s Facebook post of his encounter with the man on the freeway days ago received a lot of likes from netizens, many of whom gave their good wishes and blessings, Sin Chew Daily reported yesterday.
The religious teacher said he was on his way from Kuala Lumpur to Malacca on the night of four days ago when he saw the man walking down the highway.
Surprised to see the same figure again on his return trip, he stopped to talk to him.
She learned that the man, a Penangite who wanted to look for work in Johor Baru, decided to walk because he had no money.
The man, who was not named in Sin Chew’s report, also told Lew that he had survived on scraps he found along the way.
“I couldn’t persuade him to use public transportation. I also offered to get him a job in Kuala Lumpur, but he insisted on going south and didn’t want to bother me or anyone else. “
Lew said the man told him that he had temporarily worked in Kuala Lumpur and that he once tried to walk from Penang to Johor. “He declined my offer to carry him. In the end, I gave him some money. He told me that he would be in Johor in two days and that he hoped to meet me there one day if he could find work. “
Lew said that different people face different challenges in life and prayed that, inshallah, the man would reach his destination safely.
While most netizens praised the determination displayed by the man, some were surprised that someone actually walked from Kuala Lumpur to Johor.
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