Your take - the main reason why Mas Selamat escaped

Incompetence of officers
40% (187 votes)
Inside job
30% (140 votes)
Mas Selamat was too smart
9% (43 votes)
Black magic
17% (80 votes)
Others - add your comment
4% (17 votes)
Total votes: 467
Comments 37

Such a dangerous person is out....what to do? Mistakes do happen everywhere....just we make less but important is Our govt are honest to announce and admit to the public the slip up. U cannot find such honesty in our neighbours....Maybe even there is a slip out (intentionally or not?), they may not even know or chose not to know.
At least we knew our Govt and the system is honest to us.
Our neighbours is just Like edison or cecilia who are known to be bad....so any mistakes is OK. Wheras our image is so high up...any sligh mistakes the whole world made noise and jeers.
we as a s'porean should stand together as one and not let this sway our condident..
Remember one of the NDP song go like this...When people say s'pore cannot make it, but we did.
Some good example is like Ah How ( wang na case) and the one eyed assasinator who escape to foreign land but still need to come back here to face the music.

Just give M. Salamt some freah air for some days and he will be caught.
Maybe he want to greet the ex-PM of one SEA country who just return to his homeland to face corruption charge and later x over to go visit another neihghbour who has election campaign till this weekend. So, by this Sunday, he will return (by all means) to Whitley DB . Cheers.

Posted by MSP Beckham* on 3 March, 2008 - 11:38am

I think you are giving undue credit to the Singapore Government. The reason why Singapore has no choice but to reveal this is because there are other stakeholders - in this case Indonesia - who knows that he is in Singaporean custodian.

Even if the above was not so, revealing this is not so much a measure of transparency in my opinion. And your comment on our neighbours seem a little sensitive. =)

Posted by Jinwei* on 3 March, 2008 - 6:05pm

is the country you said is corrupted captured Mas Selamat..
and the country you said is "at least honest" let him escaped....

make sense.

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 12 March, 2008 - 11:48am

You have pointed out correctly that people do makes mistakes. Another good example is the numerous medical errors by proffessional like Med Doctors. Also Professional like Lawyers appropriated with Clientele's money.

What I feel the jailbreak was due to complacency of the people. It is a good effort to involve the public on the lookup of MSK. Many pairs of eyes are better than just rely on the law enforcement officers

Posted by The Happy Health* on 22 March, 2008 - 8:30am