Is the AG serious?
Is the AG serious? For his statement is incredible considering his chambers haven’t appeared to have taken action on the case two years after the treacherous theft in 2007.
THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail has described the embarrassing theft of two F-5E jet engines as a “serious matter”.
Which is why his chambers is going all-out to solve the case as “the public needs to know” — a full six months after the police investigation papers landed in his office.
“It is a serious matter. To my knowledge, it is two engines, and what makes matters worse is that the loss was discovered about a year later. I need a full investigation. I think the public deserves to know,” Bernama quoted Gani as saying in New Delhi yesterday.
Is the AG serious? For his statement is incredible considering his chambers haven’t appeared to have taken action on the case two years after the treacherous theft in 2007.
And now that the case has become public, he is trying to convince Malaysians that this is a “serious matter” and no effort will be spared.
Yes it is. Its not shoplifting, is it? Its not a snatch theft or a common burglary which even the police have trouble solving.
But sparing no effort? What has been done since the theft was discovered? Will there be more revelations of other items stolen from the military?
All Bernama quoted him as saying further was, “I have directed my people to conduct a complete check, the entire movement of the two engines, and I want to know where the engines are now.
“This is not a simple matter. It is a concerted effort by a group of people,” Gani added.
Please spare us the rhetoric, Mr AG.
Sometimes, the more someone tries to explain his way out of a sticky situation, the more incredulous he sounds.
This is one of those times.
Why should Malaysians take any comfort from these assuring words of an AG who despite muscular rhetoric has had little to show by way of results?
As the joke goes in Malaysia, “stealing two jet engines is not rocket science.”
But apparently solving it and bringing the thieves to face the law could be that hard.
