Stolen engines case was covered up from the start

The fact that not one but two fighter aircraft engines could go missing from the Royal Malaysian Air Force's (RMAF) inventory is not just a normal case of theft. It involves national security. And not only must heads roll, those involved must be tried for nothing less than treason.

The government's response and the manner in which the case has been handled so far have been appalling to say the least. We are now being told that the theft was discovered last May. And a police report was lodged only last August. So what was the Defence Ministry and RMAF doing in those three months? Were they looking under mattresses for the engines?

But yet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak claims there is no cover up. He was then Defence Minister in Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's Cabinet. He should have recommended then for the theft to be announced to the public.

We are now told that a top general was sacked. Who is this man? If he is found to be liable for the theft he should perhaps face more severe action.

Najib has allowed the issue to be kept under wraps for more than a year. In the eyes of the public that sounds like a cover up. The fact that a police report was lodged does not mean there was no cover up.

According to Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail, his office only received the investigations papers from the police last month. And now, he has sent the papers back to the police with further directives.

Meanwhile, the public has still not been given wider assurances that the country's defence inventory is in place.

Has any official from Mindef even bothered to issue a statement to say that Malaysia's inventory of defence equipment is safe and sound? Or are Malaysians to assume everything is fine? Just like the public assumed two fighter engines could not have been stolen.


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Hey, anybody out there want to buy a submarine or two???. Its easy to sell. Submarine always under water, so go missing, no one will know. Worse come to the worse, we will tell the M'sian public that it sank in very deep waters, and cannot be recovered. Interested? Please submit all quotations to the Def Ministry.

The ultimate head to role is that of the current Prime Minister who was then the Defence Minister! Umno talks about "Ketuanan Melayu" and defending Islam and the rights of the Malays.

But on the issue of national security, it has erred. How can you defend "Ketuanan Melayu", Islam and Malay rights and bungle on national security. Those involved should be tried for treason and jailed without pension to their families. It is that serious.

It is time Malaysians hold their leaders accountable for things under their watch. No more sweeping everything under the carpet. Those elected into power must know they work for "the RAKYAT" and can be penalise under the same rule of law applied to the rakyat


2 engines and that will be 100million and why is the PM and that General said it is ONE..SATU....huh? Now I am thinking it maybe the tip of the iceberg. Maybe it is a WHOLE damn jet plane. How the heck did they smuggle it out? It is a BIG and HEAVY machine? How did they passed through Custom? oh, silly me, they must have used one of those C130 to carry them there on one of the planned training session?

I got a question, so where is the 100 million?

this is ONLY RM100 millions! But what about the BILLIONS of MONEY BELONGING THE SARAWAK PEOPLE being PLUNDERED BY .... previous and present BN govenrment?

Resign lah or the rakyat will "resigns" you. Enough our the BN twist, drama and cover-up.

Oh by the way, in Sarawak, YB Wong Ho Leng (DAP) was suspended and still is, by the Sarawak August House because he uttered the word "camouflage" to one or two BN minister.

COVER-UP means CAMOUFLAGE! This is the BN government and the Rakyat has ENOUGH of it!