'While ignoring the elephant in the room, PM Najib Razak commented on whether the floor has been swept or not.'

PM: Sarbani's death different from Teoh's

Gerard Samuel Vijayan: The fact is that this latest victim of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) was in their custody, care and control when he suddenly died.

It is immaterial that he went there on his own accord to change his earlier statement. In the fight against corruption the MACC simply cannot go about it by killing its suspects and witnesses. Its interrogation and investigation methods must be changed so that they are fair, transparent, open and objective.

Kgen: This lying Umno prime minister seems to be fond of splitting hairs. The fact is that both Teoh Beng Hock and Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed died while in MACC's custody by falling from the MACC building.

Both of them had no reason to commit suicide. While ignoring the elephant in the room, he commented on whether the floor has been swept or not.

Anonymous: So what is our PM Najib Abdul Razak trying to say? Something really wrong happened in the Teoh Beng Hock (TBH) case and our PM knows it. This is ridiculous. I can't believe that it's coming out from our PM's mouth.

I understand that MACC is doing their work, but what happened to TBH and his family is really wrong. MACC is responsible for his death.

Tailek: Frankly I don't understand what the PM is talking about. The end result was the same: a dead person while in MACC premises. MACC is doing the right thing in investigating the Customs Department corruption, but something is not right if people end up dead at their office.

HYL: What's the difference? Two men lost their lives in MACC buildings. Does the PM deem that the lives of us ordinary folks are so dispensable? Why is he taking things so casually? Our PM is indeed blind and deaf to the pleas of the rakyat.

Dila: Died in the blink of an eye? How stupid is the PM to say this. The Customs officer Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed did not die due to heart attack to justify this statement. He fell from the third floor of the MACC building. That does not happen is a blink of an eye!

Joker: PM, royal commissions of inquiry (RCI) are for serious issues affecting the country's very foundation of governance. The 'sex video' is just porn - there is no proof that the man in the video is Anwar Ibrahim.

Even if it was him, so what? Don't tell me youi want an RCI to investigate all porn? Start with Chua Soi Lek's video, since it involves sex against the order of nature, which is a crime and there is no debate as to whether CSL is guilty or not, since he has admitted to it.

RCIs should be done on PKFZ, Petronas' distribution of royalties to Kelantan, MACC's alleged killing of witness and suspects, immigration records being deleted, a Mongolian national being blown to bits by special force officers using military-grade explosives, defence procurements of overpriced submarines, armoured vehicles, OPVs (offshore patrol vessels) and missing jet engines, police brutality for killing its detainees and indiscriminate shooting of suspected-but-yet-to-be-proven criminals, independence of the judiciary, native customary right lands, and so on.

Anak Bangsa Malaysia: It's funny how people seem to keep 'falling' out of MACC windows 'in the blink of an eye' when MACC officers are 'not watching them'. In fact, it's 'funny' how people seem to keep dying at the hands of MACC and the police.

Did Teoh Beng Hock strangle himself and throw himself out the window at Plaza Masalam? Did Aminulrasyid Amzah shoot himself in the back of the head? Did Altantuya Shariibuu blow herself up 'in the blink of an eye' when no one was watching her? Did A Kugan and R Gunasegaran beat themselves to death while no one was watching?

No one is questioning the need to fight corruption, but with yet another senseless death in custody, MACC no longer has the authority to take on that responsibility, even less so the police or the Attorney-General's Office.

What is needed is the establishment of the long-delayed Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC), but one which answers directly to Parliament, not to the Umno-BN regime.

Cala: Excuse me Najib, you have failed to point out the similarities in the two cases. First, both victims had been subjected to certain kinds of interrogations which must have left an indelible mark on them. So the hypothesis is, they killed themselves.

Second, both died in the custody of MACC. So who else should take the responsibility? Either way, as head of the regime, Najib bears certain responsibilities.

Perhaps this is an issue of knowledge acquisition versus knowledge application. In China in the 1980s, not too long after the Cultural Revolution had ended, many top party cadres were sent by the Chinese government to US top universities (such as Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, etc) to get their MBA.

Upon graduation, they returned to serve in factories and applied the newly acquired skills of management by objective (MBO) with great enthusiasm. In their eagerness to reach for results, workers below them were harshly punished for not achieving the stated goals.

Within a short period of time, a dozen or so of this batch of US - MBAs were killed by disgruntled factory workers. Subsequent high-level findings revealed the wrong application of Peter Drucker's MBO as adequate measures had not been placed.

In the same way, MACC boys could also have misapplied the wrong principles.

Junky: Najib said, "We must remember that MACC is doing this to safeguard national funds. Corruption is serious and if we can stop this racket, which has been ongoing for years, then it is the rakyat who will benefit."

There were reports on Abdul Taib Mahmud by various people. Are you instructing MACC to investigate him?

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