Was Altantuya motive established, yes or no?
YOURSAY ‘IGP Khalid, you have no reason not to give us a straight answer.’
IGP shoots back, murder probes do establish motive
Odin
: Inspector-general of police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar, a report on Jan 30 quoted you thus: "But as many observers pointed out, the court did not determine a motive in the case concerning Altantuya (Shaariibuu). Hence, I suppose
we will never know
why the 'rogue policemen' acted as such."
This statement - if it was recorded correctly by the reporter concerned - suggests that your department was also unaware of the motive.
But now you are telling us that your department does know it, that it has included it in its report to the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC), and that either the AGC or the court - or both - had decided to disregard it.
One wonders what your next story will be.
Perhaps the two policemen heard voices in their heads? Or either a vampire or a werewolf has bitten the duo and infected them with a strange malady that causes the bitten to execute unpremeditated murder?
Or the duo and Altantuya got teleported to the Bermuda Triangle where the incident occurred and then got teleported back to that jungle?
Kim Quek : IGP Khalid, since you said the police had dutifully probed into the motive of murder, can you please give a categorical answer to this question: Had the police established the motive of murder - yes or no?
The nation has a right to this answer, as the strange and inexplicable absence of motive throughout the marathon trials of this world-renowned murder has put the entire criminal justice system of Malaysia into a cloud of suspicion, which in turn has cast a sinister aspersion on the country’s top leadership, thus jeopardising Malaysia’s international image.
Khalid, you have no reason not to give a straight answer.
Vijay47 : This man is the IGP? We must truly be a cursed nation. Once again, we witness his deft shifting of accountability and the passing of blame to another.
Khalid, are you actually saying that in the course of your pre-charging investigation, you did not pursue the issue of instruction or motive?
When one of the accused said that he was offered RM50,000 for executing the murder, did it not strike you to ask that most obvious of questions: Who paid you?
Even without the matter of payment - especially in a brutal murder of a person not personally known to the accused - did it not dawn on you to establish who instructed them to do it?
One would have thought that motive is one of the most crucial ingredients necessary to ensure that a murder charge sticks.
Since you now amazingly stated that motive should be determined by the courts and not the police, I am very curious to find out what exactly the police investigators sought to prove. IC numbers, weight, and height?
Abasir : "During the prosecution, the prosecutor would again determine what or which evidences available are to be adduced to prove the case."
Meaning, the prosecutors (also known as Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's defence team) cherry-picked the 'evidence' with the active connivance of the police to make sure that those who masterminded and directed the kidnapping and killing will remain in the shadows? Thank you, Khalid, for insinuating that.
But please tell the rakyat, weren't you in the least curious to find out who the paymasters were when you learned that money was promised as payment for the killing? Or is your SOP designed to avoid asking inconvenient questions such as, "Who promised you the money?"
Basically : DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang is not talking about the case anymore. He is talking about police accountability, that when two top ranking policemen are found guilty of a gruesome murder, the PDRM must be held accountable to the public to explain why it happened and assure us that the force is not overrun by lunatics.
Hence, the duty of the IGP to know why his men had murdered, regardless of the court case. The two are now different things, but the IGP is as usual hiding behind the court to stay mum.
Even though it happened under then IGP Musa Hassan's watch, he should know the details of misconduct in his force - especially in a high profile case. So, either he is burying his head in the sand by his “we'll never know” statement, or he is deliberately keeping silent.
Either way, its dereliction of duty is to the people, who are the PDRM's paymasters. Really, Malaysians should be more demanding of the people that your hard-earned money goes to pay to work, instead of being happy with slapdash answers like this.
Onlooker : That elephant in the corner of the room is so big we can all see it, but the IGP can't. And because it's so big, it's never going to escape through the door. It will be there until it has turned into a pile of bones and dust.
Need Ture : The IGP is above court, he can take the middle path. So why is he now stressing that it is not the police’s role to question the prosecutor or courts?
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