YOURSAY | Are we so short of people with integrity and professionalism?

Suhakam chief, Tan Seng Giaw among Wang Kelian RCI members

Cogito Ergo Sum: Why do they keep going back to the very people who have disappointed the nation on so many occasions?

Are we so short of people with integrity and professionalism that we have to pick the same people who did a bad job previously?

It’s time royal commission of inquiries (RCIs) comprised ordinary folk who have common sense and integrity. There are lots around.

Gulengtu: It looks like this government does not even know who to appoint in the RCI. Former chief justice Arifin Zakaria and former Public Accounts Committee deputy chairperson Tan Seng Giaw are bad choices.

The process of such appointments is no different from the previous administration.

Ipoh PP: No wonder Pakatan Harapan is in the dumps. It looks like they will lose more by-elections. They are choosing all these rejects which should be discarded in the rubbish bin.

Where is the young blood? Let all these old retired fellows go home and play with their grandchildren. We had enough of them under the previous administration.

Where is their track record? What have they contributed/done for the nation besides collecting their salary and now pension?

It looks like Harapan is heading for another loss in the next by-election in Rantau.

Anonymous_be07867c: Indeed, Harapan is really making fools of themselves by appointing rotten personalities from the former government.

Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was wrong to pick all these rotten personalities besides one or two who are still respectable.

Harapan should be kicked out in the next GE15 before it becomes full Umno 2.0.

Prudent: The whole committee smacks of the running dogs of the MO1 (Malaysian Official 1) regime, especially that treacherous one from the DAP.

Anonymous_1547638298718: Seriously, what is wrong with this government? Appointing former DAP parliamentarian Tan Seng Giaw? Is there no one else among our 32 million people?

Anonymous_f9c6586c: Is all that has been stated above (by commenters) true about the judge? Then how did he get chosen to lead the RCI and by whom? Is this a joke?

Has this country fallen so low in intelligence and morals? Cry my beloved country.

On The Other Hand: Does Harapan seriously expect us to support them when they appoint such dubious characters to an RCI?

Are they insulting our intelligence?

Yoda: Why are former police officers in charge of human trafficking not appointed? They have the best knowledge for the commission.

Bravemalaysian: Yes, why are there so many people with suspicious characters in this RCI? There are so many able, sincere and people with unquestionable integrity who are available to be appointed.

Why pick people with questionable character which will give doubts to the findings of the RCI or its impartiality?

I think the home minister either has ulterior motives or is not aware of what has happened in the past.

ChuenTick: An RCI headed by a tainted man is better than no RCI at all.

Let's see if this RCI will bring some semblance of justice for those nameless dead and the sufferings of countless people who were trafficked through Wang Kelian.

Penang land reclamation – ‘Why put sand in our rice bowls?’

Ravinder: Penang exco Dr Afif Bahardin doesn't seem to know what he is talking. He said the reclamation, which involves the creation of three artificial islands, allowed the fishing community open access to carry on their work.

Does he know that the fishing grounds would be buried by the reclamation? So where will the "open access" take them for fishing?

Thinking that "development" can go on and on and on indefinitely is a kind of madness. You have to destroy to develop and the more you develop the more you destroy.

Finally, where will this take humankind? Is there no concern for the kind of world we leave behind for future generations?

JBKing: @Ravinder, how much income do these coastal fishermen get? I believe their earnings are so little that they pay no tax at all.

They should move on to other more lucrative jobs and let the government develop the land to facilitate the nation's progress.

Guuunner: @Ravinder, human population multiplies. If the Penang government doesn’t do anything just to protect the so-called rice bowls of a few fishermen then the majority of the population will suffer as a result - including the fishermen.

The Penang Forum and Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) are notoriously against development, and never have any viable solutions.

Ask the real Penangites and 95 percent will support the PTMP (Penang Transport Master Plan)... and I’m one of them.

Well Thats Fantastic: If the government had stopped subsidising their living, we wouldn't have this issue anymore, now we have all these people in an industry dominated by big business.

We have the technology to build artificial reefs and make fish more abundant than they are now, can't we?

Anonymous_1529214566: This is where PSM and its socialist approach come into play. I feel sorry for all of you fisherfolk, too bad there is no by-election there.

But give Harapan some time, they will get around the issues.

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