Home Affairs Minister
WongWua Kan Seng has cited a lapse in security at the Whitley Detention Centre on Wednesday as the cause for the escape of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) member Mas Selamat Kastari.He told MPs, who had raised the matter in Parliament, that Mas Selamat had been taken from his cell to another part of the detention centre for a visit from his family. He then asked to be allowed to visit the toilet, where he escaped.
“This should have never have happened. I am sorry that it has,” said Mr Wong in an update to the House, adding that an independent investigation is underway.
Is that all you can offer Singapore, after this guy has escaped, Wong? With 3 million Singapore dollars of pay p.a., an apology is not good enough. If you have any sense of shame and responsibility at all, you should just resign and shut the hell up for a long time. (Though personally, I would prefer you use a store room somewhere in Parliament house to commit hara-kiri to atone for your disgraceful failures!)
Recalled how George ‘Warmonger’ Bush failed to follow up on intelligence on Osama bin Laden? We all knew what happened on September 11, 2001. I’m going to hold you personally responsible if Mas Selamat managed to pull off a big one after this escape. So, if there are any personal god you believed in, I suggest you put on your sack cloth, act downcast, and fast and pray for the next 40 days that Mas Selamat will be caught!
Frankly, this is not the first time the Home Team has fxxked up. All these for show patrols at the MRT doesn’t make one feel any safer when it has been fxxk ups after fxxk ups since 2004. I have completely lost confidence in the security forces of this country. It’s high time someone admit he has fxxked up and stop shamelessly taking his 3 million dollar annual pay and seek lateral career shift, preferably in Zimbabwe or some other war torn, strife infested African country.
Here’s 3 of recent Home Team boo-boos:
- Took Leng How – (exerpt from Wikipedia) On 21 October 2004, when the police officers escorting Took for another round of questioning (in connection with Huang Na’s disappearance) allowed him to drop by at a coffee shop for a meal en route, he went to the toilet and escaped through an open back door. He hailed down a taxi, and asked the driver to send him to the Woodlands Checkpoint. At the checkpoint, Took went to the bus station, where the gate between the roads for buses entering and leaving Singapore had been left open, and used this gate to go onto the road for buses leaving Singapore at 3:38 a.m. in the morning.
- Tan Chor Jin – Nicknamed ‘One-Eye Dragon’, Tan shook Singapore with the execution-style slaying of a 41-year-old businessman (nightclub owner Lim Hock Soon at his home in Serangoon) on February 15, 2006. Tan subsequently escaped to Kuala Lumpur, and was only arrested with the assistance of the Royal Malaysian Police Force. He was flown back to Singapore on March 1, 2006.
- Richard Yong – (exerpt from Wikipedia) Former NKF chairman, was declared bankrupt on May 16, 2007. After selling personal properties worth $7.5 million, Richard Yong left Singapore without permission early on the morning of May 17 but was arrested on Jul 4 2007 in Hong Kong and extradited back to Singapore on Aug 3 2007 where he was charged the next day for charges that the NKF levied on him as well as escaping from Singapore hours before being declared a bankrupt. Yong said that he had left to settle some personal matters.
And by the way, I didn’t even include the fact that the home team showed up with 4 anti-riot vehicles against some guys who put up some figurines at the Youth Corner to protest against Odex.
That’s a little obsessive display of force and a tad over-reacting, don’t you think?