This is really a global issue. Without honesty and transparencies, how can a nation go far? ---------- Inconsistencies and incompetence in handling the flight MH370 disappearance is showing that 50 years under one coalition and tight control over information is a mismatch for Malaysia in handling a rapidly growing crisis followed across the world, Bloomberg reported today. It said China was calling on Malaysia to be more transparent as Prime Minister (Datuk Seri) Najib Razak lets his cousin, acting Transport Minister (Datuk Seri) Hishammuddin Hussein, be the face of the investigation into why a Malaysia Airlines plane vanished on March 8. The Boeing 777-200ER jet was en route to Beijing with 239 people onboard when it went missing. Investigators from at least nine countries are trying to locate the jet. “They’re handling a huge global issue as if it was domestic politics,” said Clive Kessler, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, who has analysed the nation’s politics for half a century. “With the cause of the disappearance still unknown, you can understand the need for discretion and caution but it’s being perceived in Malaysia and elsewhere in the region as a bid to hide the truth. Najib’s administration is sending the message that people should let the ‘government tell them what they need to know, when they need to know it, and not before’,” Kessler said. “That’s the way they’ve acted for generations and they are starting to find out it doesn’t work any more.”
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 05:16:57 +0000
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