Firstly, no less a person than the Home Minister whose portfolio
includes the police needs to address the issues raised by the
whistleblower. Hishamuddin Hussein should convene a special press
conference at which he can refute the damaging allegations made of
political interference in the work
of the police and the charge that “the police have succumbed to the
political pressure in agreeing to achieve the targeted KPI set under the
NKRA.”
Should he fail to do so, it will be an admission of guilt. Worse, it
will show him as unfit and undeserving of the high position of Home
Minister. In such a development, it is incumbent on Prime Minister Najib
Razak and the cabinet to give Hishamuddin his marching orders and put
him out to pasture in the same way that has happened to Shahrizat Abdul
Jalil.
Secondly, Koh Tsu Koon and Idris Jala, ministers in the Prime Minister’s
Department and the latter, chief executive officer of the Performance
Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) must not pretend to be dumb and
deaf on this.
As CEO of Pemandu – the unit monitoring the implementation of the Key
Performance Indicator (KPI) initiative – Idris Jala is responsible for
the statistical data that is released to the public. The whistleblower
has provided a detailed account of how crime records are recorded and
processed, and how these records have been manipulated to give the
impression of a decline in crime in Malaysia.
The onus is on Koh and Idris to show that the whistleblower had got his
facts wrong and to also answer the other serious allegations in the
internet media on Pemandu’s role in this botched attempt to fool the
public.
For the sake of their conscience and personal integrity, it will be
necessary for both Koh and Idris to apologize to the public should their
own investigations show that the allegations made by the whistleblower
are substantially correct. This public apology must be followed by a
clean-up of the mess and by strong action to punish those responsible
for this despicable attempt to hoodwink the public on such a serious
matter. Only in this way will Koh and Idris repair their reputation
which is in tatters following this debacle.
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