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Saturday, August 25, 2007

The Malaysian Way To Solve Problems

On August 13, Malaysia's worst bus accident happened. I guess we all know what happened. The bus was going downhill when it hit the curb and careened 20 yards off the road before flipping over and falling into a 20-feet-deep ditch. A total of 22 people were killed in this bus crash. Now here comes the GREAT question of "SIAPA PUNYA SALAH??". Malaysian officials would now start pointing their long and pointy fingers to one another. After much delibration, it was found out that the bus driver has up to 30++ outstanding traffic summons. Good news for JPJ now that they had someone to blame. Then someone asked

" How come he got so many traffic summonses still can drive on the road??? Police no saman or catch a?? ".

The long and pointy fingers started moving and now the JPJ officials were blamed. The system which was suppose to curb drivers who has outstanding summonses from driving on the road failed. Suspension from the road should have been given to the bus driver thus saving 21 lives in the process.

Horror of the bus accident

Now AFTER the accident, the Malaysian spirit of "Happen first, think later, blame others" came into the act. Now that the bus accident had happened, the police launched their Ops Bersih-to "clean up" errant bus drivers and companies. Why wasn't this Ops Bersih launched earlier??

"Because haven't happen ma...."

"Won't happen for sure one. Malaysian roads and highways are very safe. Sure no accident one..."

Back to the JPJ officials now, why was such a driver allowed to drive?? I guess after their investigations, they would say "Not enough staff lar". Then, someone from the JPJ would give a suggestion

" Ask the goverment to allocated more funds to hire more staff who would smile everytime a person comes and pays their traffic summonses. Like that then all the people who kena saman will pay up la."

The proposal would then be put up in like lets say - A WEEK. Oh my, thats fast and efficient. If only services at the goverment offices would be done in a week..... The proposal would then be implemented " as soon as possible to avoid any more casualties ". The story would then go on and on..... In the end, where does this money come from?? I guess i'll leave the answer to you guys.

We all know the saying that goes " prevention is better than cure ". But why do Malaysian officials all act the same and wait for something to happen first before they want to do something about it?? Recently, a motorcyclist lost his life when he hit a pothole in Johor. He was just 20 years old. Are the authorities gonna act first before someone gets hurt?? People like the famed "panjang" cant be doing the authorities job of mending potholes all the time. All the authorities need to do is be a little more concious and do their job. I hope we won't be reading in the newspapers saying " 20 years of love lost to a pothole not mended "

Potholes that kill - its much bigger in size in Malaysia

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