Swimming with the Fishes (and guns)

I write in response to the Malaysian Inspector General of Police ("IGP") Khalid Abu Bakar's statement in trying his level best to justify the 44 guns that are found missing as enunciated in the Malaysian Auditor General's ("AG") Report for 2012.

According to the report, between 2010 and 2012, the police lost 156 units of handcuffs, 44 units of firearms, 29 vehicles, 26 walkie-talkies, 22 radios, 6 cameras, 4 computers, 1 cell-phone and 21 unspecified items.

Teresa Kok of the DAP immediately went for the kill and sought clarification whether the missing firearms could have any connection with the rising guns related crime and deaths. In response, the Malaysian Inspector General of Police ("IGP") Khalid Bakar's came with a gem off the cuff excuse that the guns may not have fell into the wrong hands but may have instead "fell into the sea!"

Today, 3 October 2013 the IGP further mentioned that the AG was not up to date in his calculations, pointing out that seven (7) guns have since been recovered. So the number is NOT 44!! it is ONLY 37!!

Talk about missing the point!

Guns, no matter how many, 44 or 37 or 5, the Royal Malaysian Police ("RMP") must be castigated as to why this was allowed to happen. With the spike in gun-related violence and murder, surely any reasonable Malaysian and not only a DAP lawmaker, could connect the two together? The onus rests on the RMP to debunk this, however miraculous the effort.

Remember that Nallakaruppan, who is political history, was once arrested on 12 August 1998 under both the Firearms Act and the Internal Security Act (ISA) for merely possession of bullets, and he had a valid license at the time!

If the full brunt of the law was implemented against him, why not against the RMP? Is there a separate Schedule in the Federal Constitution to allow leeway to RMP personnel?

You can try to use Utusan to spin it off. Hell maybe you can even consider Khairy Jamaluddin when he tried (to no success) to defend his cushy Ministerial seat by according some flimsy justification for the RM1.6 million K-Pop originally said to be 'sponsored' and suddenly AFTER THE AG REPORT it became 'forced government expenditure' similar to insurance uinderwriters.

Since when did the Malaysian government become underwriters and indemnified private corporate sponsors?

I dare the RMP or the IGP himself reprimand the AG for highlighting these issues in the name of "National Security". Which begs the question, how many gross negligence cases such as these have been swept under the carpet under the same notion?

You tell me.