Sgpolitics.net
25 Jun 2008
“The cure to all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government,” Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told the Straits Times on 5 Apr 2007 while speaking on the subject of Ministerial pay and the grouses people had over them.
This year, we got that “dose of incompetent government” from the Ministry of Home Affairs which has committed one serious blunder after another.
The first, and most major, security lapse was the escape of Mas Selamat Kastari, a known terrorist, who practically limped out of the highest security detention centre on the island in 49 seconds or less in broad daylight on 27 Feb 08. The Ministry of Home Affairs took a grand four hours to alert the public on the matter. To this date, there is absolutely no news on Mas Selamat’s whereabouts.
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