Last night, volunteers from the group that helps search for missing people went to 51 MRT stations and six bus interchanges to put up a total of 57 posters of fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari.

The posters had Crime Library's trademark 'Missing' heading. Explaining this, the group's founder, Mr Joseph Tan, said 'Escaped' and 'Wanted' sounded too much like the posters produced by the police.

At least three other groups also distributed over 8,000 posters of the fugitive that had been provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs across the island yesterday.

One group of eight teenagers split up to distribute 5,000 posters across Singapore, in places such as Toa Payoh, Bedok and Jurong.

Miss Nurul Asyikeen Azhar, 19, led the team of teens. She said: 'I want to do my part and reach out to the public.'

Mr Leonard Ong, 27, a project executive, headed a three-man group that handed out over 1,000 posters in the city area last night.

Madam Cynthia Phua, an MP for Aljunied GRC, led a group of over 40 grassroots leaders and others. They gave out 2,000 posters around Kovan MRT station.

The reactions of those who were approached were mixed. Some took the posters eagerly while others declined to accept them, saying they already knew all about Mas Selamat.

Taxi driver Quek Siow Soon, 58, allowed the posters to be put up behind the front seats in his taxi. 'As a citizen, it's my duty to help,' he said.

But housewife Ngern Mui Tiang, 64, declined to accept a poster, saying she was illiterate.

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