Think twice, will anyone resign with more than 3million package per year?

furthermore its only the civilized way of bringing terrorists to justice…

on another note, if this was Japan or another civilized country, the minister or even the prime minister will have resigned…

Please tell us your opinions of his competency as the Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Minister of Home Affairs.

Your opinions and impresssions of Minister Wong Kan Seng will be greatly appreciated by the Citizenry and a gauge on how you will fare yourselves from now on. We as citizens of Singapore would like our future leaders to be sincere and frank with us.

I’ve sent the letter to the forums, but it bounced.
I’m not very good at this kind of stuff… does this normally happen? or is this just another one of those… coincidences?
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Apologies for the video not working. It is working now. :)

Gosh!! you informed the public only after 4 hours when he escaped?? Why? Just because you want ‘face’? or you’re so confident that you can catch him back for less than 4 hours so that you can ‘cover it up’???

You idiot !! What’s more important?? your face or the safety of the nation? To have you as a leader in our country is really an insult.

The fact that all the news agencies are picking up this story isn’t really because of the terrorist himself but because of the image of squeeky clean, hard pressed, highest paid and iron ruled Singapore government’s embaressment to this. The news agencies probably cannot believe that such a thing can happen here. Then again we’re Uniquely Singapore.

Going back to the four hours. Yes, the public should have been informed. If this was a murderer on the loose, what would they do? If a rapist had escaped would they not alarm the public so peoples daughters and wives would be safe? Here they have a man that’s know to the world as a terriorist, who had plans and bad intentions for Singapore, who should be on the top of any countries’ most wanted list and they WAITED. Shame on them.

A man who limps, has no resources or friends here as they claimed, is hiding well above a twenty four hour period. For all you know he’s in someones home right now with a knife to their throats and got them all tied up. Eating their food in the refridgerator, using the PC to converse with others, making IDD calls for help and planing a way to blow himself(and the family) up with the gas tank in the house. He’s not stupid after all.

Like others mentioned, if they had got him before the four hour period, there may have been a cover up but they may also have mentioned it on the news so as to show the Home Affairs Ministry skills at such things happening. Basically a propaganda boost for the Home Affairs Ministry. After the four hours, with futile efforts, they probably thought it was best to go public in case anyone got hurt. They realized that the search will now have to be made larger and more forces will be seen in public which will make people query. It was best to come forward. So their plans for quiet resolvment is over. If only they got the news out. A lot of people would have spotted him but his four hours has given him time to find refuge and possibly make terrorist plans. What will the Prime Minister’s Office say about the Minister of Home Affairs then.

This is how the Singapore government works I guess. Cover ups, concealments, thight libs, helping their own, hushing things up, blowing things off, secreativity and so on. Now is the time to see what happens when someone in authority like Wong Kan Seng has in term of resposibility and integerity. Even if he doesn’t step down or resign, his fate will be sealed in the next election. The public wont take four hours to decide his fate if they see his name on the ballot sheet. So opposition take note. You have a shot at that GRC in future.

Of course his guy is dangerous. He has a dangerous mind, a dangerous religious ideology, and once led a dangerous network of people. That is true. That was why he was arrested to begin with.

But I doubt he is a physical threat to your average adult Singaporeans. He is a 1.6m tall man with a limp, and having served out time in solitary confinement, with awful food, he is not going to be Jojo Sinclair. If you have read Francis Seow’s account of detention at Whitley, you will find out that the conditions, while adequate for survival (humane or not depends on one’s subjective reading), but aren’t particularly nourishing. He may arm himself with a weapon, but just about any common criminal may arm himself with a weapon when desperate. It doesn’t justify a manhunt. Doesn’t justify people being scared of him attacking anybody. What people should be scared of his is destructive potential, but only when he is in a position to reconnect with his now broken cell.

I think the Minister has a lot of explaining to do. In any other country all the newspapers both tabloids and broadsheets would have called for his head. But what i fear is the impact on the reputation on the Gurkhas, who were supposedly guarding the place.

‘no imminent danger to the public’ – I pray for all our sakes that is so.

Having no concrete leads after more than 48hrs suggests to me that this fiasco could last for an uncomfortably long period. I think that is something we have to prepare for.

Wouldn’t this be the best solution if he had already been exterminated. Then nobody has to account for it.

Looks like someone has to answer for it but an apology from Mr Wong is all that you will get.