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Rafizi: Son too young to know jail, only Thomas the Tank Engine

INTERVIEW If PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli were to be given sentenced to prison in his case under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) on Monday, the thing he would miss most in jail is his three-year-old son.

"My wife, she'll understand. My son is three.

"I don't think he understands (what's happening to me), he only understands Thomas the Tank Engine.

"The only concept he understands now, is sometimes I have to leave at night because I have to go to work, and he is not at all happy with that... you know, single child syndrome.

"I can imagine that should I go (to jail), the first two or three days would be very difficult for him because he won't be able to understand why I would not come back," Rafizi said in an interview with Malaysiakini at his service centre in his Pandan constituency.

He said he had discussed with his wife previously that were he to go in jail for any of his numerous ongoing cases, they would prefer if it happens before their son gets older and more attached to him.

Unfortunately, he said, the cases keep on dragging and now his son is already three and very attached to him.

Aside from that, he said, he has already done the necessary arrangements for his family, as well as the party and his service centre should he be sentenced to jail tomorrow.

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