everyone so relaxed ar? he could jolly well walk down to the nearest coffeeshop without anyone caring right now. At least that’s what I’m seeing in S’pore. They don’t even know what he looks like for god’s sake. those unsightly posters have been replaced by coca cola ads…zzz….
“coca cola is more important than the guy who’s gonna blow us up”

zzz….see what i mean–how long has it been since someone set foot on this site?

I don’t see how he could get out without help from the inside! double fencing le! + barb wire!! no possible way he could climb em with that limp of his, and his body would be torn in shreds by the time he got over the fences…zz….

One other possible way that NO ONE suggested — he knows black magic!! Sure…magic’s “bogus” but hey! he’s definitely been to indonesia and pretty weird shit happens there often – sacrificial rituals, voodoo, etc..
all he needs is a little water and he can shapeshift into a snake…zzz….and he did escape from a toilet did he not?zzz….flushed himself out…zzz…..

I have never thought that I will ever see him in real life with my very own eyes, only then have I felt that the danger and threat of a terrorist attack in Singapore is still very real.

I urge everyone to stay vigilant and keep a look-out for him. If you see him, PLEASE, DO NOT WALK AWAY TO CALL THE POLICE. Approach him on the spot or even manhandle him, so that passerbys can help out should a comotion breaks out.

a small room with 3 walls and a door.
A small vent with bars across it to prevent escape.

This is what I think the inside looks like. What do you think?

How about you ?

POP Quiz time!

Who would you hold accountable if your money in the bank went missing ?

1)CEO of the bank
2)Manager
3)Staff

If you were a share holder of the bank and the bank went into losses.Who would you hold accountable ?

1)CEO
2)Portfolio Manager
3)Staff

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It’s plain simple, the folks inside have the information, but its the public presentation that needs addressing.

The Emperors new clothes ?

So…..this trigger me to ponder. Our ministers are all of CEO quality hence the recent pay increase. We have to award them duely so that they will continue to be motivated to stay on and help run the country. That I fully agree.

I also agree on the fact that, now, if I fail a $200,000 project that I am doing, I can forget about my increment and my variable pay this year.
Since our ministers salary are benchmark against those in the private sector, shouldn’t their performance apprasial and their bonus scheme be the same?

I would like to use the over used term of ….you can’t have your cake and eat it…though everyone of us would like to.

I think the actual question is: Who should take responsibility? Is it Wong Kan Seng? Or is it somebody down the line? Obviously and ideally, the guards and the guard commander would have to take responsibility. Unfortunately, everybody would pin the blame on someone in power, because that someone, in this case Wong, is better-known, and because of the perception that someone up ther usually has the answers — which isn’t the case. From a justice-centric perspective, the guards are responsible, as well as whomever aided Selamat’s escape through negligence. But from a political perspective, someone higher up must take responsibility because of this perception because the people on the ground would not be satisfied so easily. Where the people are concerned, only someone of ministerial level would do — largely because they know whom to target.

Ken, you said that the ISD runs the detention centre. So why shouldn’t the Director of the ISD come out to take responsibility instead? Or at least in tandem with Wong?

George,

I suppose you’re right. I should have included the Director of the ISD in some way or form. But the essentials remain the same: news that Mas Selamat has escaped must travel from the guard who discovered his escape all the way to the media proper, passing through a long sequence of events, almost all of which requires consideration and/or delay before this news can be passed on. Any questions on whether or not the media could have, or should have, been informed earlier must be framed in this context.

Patriot,

Please read carefully. I said that speculation is useless beyond the point it helps us find him. This means, we should not wonder about conspiracy theories or unfounded nonsense, but instead look at the facts, and extrapolate from there.

Robert Ho,

I’d kindly advise you to think through what you’re really saying before typing up conspiracy theories and unrealistic speculations.

Frankly, This Is My Take,

The Director of the ISD. After the guards, guard commander, and whoever that could have prevented the escape have been charged. Wong Kan Seng is too far removed from the prison for me to comfortably say that he should be responsible. The best analogy to describe this situation, really, is to demand an apology and resignation from a general after a private has committed a crime, when the general was too far away from the event to have made a meaningful impact. Frankly, this is my take: The buck stops at the Director of the ISD. You need to prove to me that the chain of responsibility extends beyond him.

The point here is that ALOT is at stake. More than MAS, More than the Police Commissioner’s job, even more than the Minister’s job.

Thus when we look for the appropriate measure to rectify this, we should find the appropriate levels of response.

The outcomes still look very bad no matter how we sugar coat this.

Well said RH!

My apology; patriot.

Its like saying the CEO is not responsible for the losses in a bank

Its like saying the manager is not accountable for his staffs action.

The chain of responsibility should not extend to Wong because he is not involved in it; consequently, resignation over this does not serve the interests of justice. We cannot commit the fallacy of the spotlight, of believing that Wong is at fault simply because of his high profile.

Is there such a thing as a contingency plan?

In the short term, no. Wong does not have a designated successor that the public can identify with, if he indeed has one. Should Wong step down, the Ministry of Home Affairs, among other things, would be shaken up.