Mas Selamat: Shocked and disappointed

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May 28, 2008

Mas Selamat: Shocked and disappointed

I REFER to yesterday's report 'Mas Selamat escape: Detention centre superintendent gets the sack'. So the Government has sought closure to the Mas Selamat saga by handing out an assortment of punishments to the nine, mainly low-ranking, officers and guards whose security lapses had led to the escape of the terrorist.

I wish to express deep disappointment, shock and pain that in a national scandal of unprecedented magnitude and public outrage, it is only the little people who are held accountable and punished.

 

 

Catherine Lim (Dr)

 

[Yrvsport]

It is not a SINGAPORE WAY OF STYLE....by sacking people....very familiar but yet it's the best drama edpisod ever in Singapore....

[Seaweed]

Well....be on the top...you will be safe...unless your deputy screw up...anyway even if he/she screw up...can say he/she is senior and experience and old enough to handle the problem....so he screw up....no choice....not my fault also... The boss say you wrong you wrong lor...isn't it a fact or life....there is no fair system in this world....rather I say a good system is sufficient...maybe we fall short of a good system this time round..

[Chongster]

superintendent not little people i feel. he's BG level, leh.

 

i feel it should at the very least go up to ISD head; but even though he is not sacked, i think his career as a civil servant will be impacted. btw, how come his name is revealed but the superintendent's is not i think someone made a boo boo

 

i think WKS will have political ramifications - notice now K Shanmugam, the next super express track law minister cum 2nd minister of home affair, is very much in media spotlight.

[Friendstar]

well said!

 

now the LEE jeans are busy "fixi**" Chai CHEE

[Lala81]

I think the superintendent also has a very direct role to play in the escape.

 

Maximum security area how can just ask people to cut off a window handle instead of sealing it. I think thats y he got the sack even though the pple on the ground eg. the 2 gurkhas and the liason officer were also quite complacent. The rest only got demotion and reprimand only.

 

Anyway superintendent of the facilities is quite big already. Maybe LTC/Colonel rank in army.

 

To be ISD head, u obviouly have to be quite capable and trusted, so prob wont kana anything much.

 

U are right, boss say u are wrong u are wrong.

Edited May 30, 2008 by Lala81

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i think WKS will have political ramifications - notice now K Shanmugam, the next super express track law minister cum 2nd minister of home affair, is very much in media spotlight.

 

I think WKS has reached the peak of his political career anyway so it doesn't really matter much to him. He at most is 1st or 2nd DPM waiting for the next PM to be groomed. He'll prob retire sometime after the next GE anyway.

[Acemundo]

someone should post the 2 replies in ST today for interest.

[Curahee]

It is not a SINGAPORE WAY OF STYLE....by sacking people....very familiar but yet it's the best drama edpisod ever in Singapore....

 

Yes they contradict themselves once again.

[Fortress]

You are absolutely right, the point is where does the responsibilities ends....just the Superintendent, ISD head or DPM. We have professionally payed(pegged to private sector) people, however, do not need to be as responsible as the private sector. Isn't it nice to work in jobs in this sector.

[Lexxmexx]

Got so much money of course can retire and live comfortably

[Acemundo]

where pay is concerned they are as responsible as pte sector.

 

where responsibility is concerned.........

[Sabian]

aiyah...i tot the post was abt something else.

 

Like Mas Selamat was shocked disappointed that the manhunt has died down

 

cos more effort and assets seemed to have been deployed to apprehend Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows.

 

MS only got chow keng NSFs whose expertise are using x ray eye power to scan the lallang....

 

so Ms wrote in to ST to express his heartfelt disappointment.

[Ultramega]

Is this the same Catherine Lim who wrote the open letter to PM?

 

http://catherinelim.sg/2007/11/04/an-open-...prime-minister/

[Yaloryalor]

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May 28, 2008

Mas Selamat: Shocked and disappointed

I REFER to yesterday's report 'Mas Selamat escape: Detention centre superintendent gets the sack'. So the Government has sought closure to the Mas Selamat saga by handing out an assortment of punishments to the nine, mainly low-ranking, officers and guards whose security lapses had led to the escape of the terrorist.

I wish to express deep disappointment, shock and pain that in a national scandal of unprecedented magnitude and public outrage, it is only the little people who are held accountable and punished.

 

 

Catherine Lim (Dr)

 

 

I read this article too!

[Scenic98]

Yup...looks like the same Catherine Lim whose books back in my time was used as text book for literature subject

[Blackyv]

infact, what's so shocking with the result?? im sure most people here knew way back before the annoucement, the ending is going to be something in this manner. just that most people hoping for mirracles to happen one of this day, just like hoping the petrol price will drop when crude oil price drop since it raised when it hikes.....

 

my reaction and what i told my wife when i heard it over news was that very nite--> aiyah..u see, told u the other day right!!!....expected lar.....

[Damienic]

Yes...MOE used to use some of her novels as literature textbooks in the past..but strangely after she got more critical of the govt, they stop doing tat..