July 2017

Demanding accountability for illegal immigrants

My last column developed a hypothesis about who should be responsible and accountable for public works, in particular, public service programme failures, of either the enforcement of rules or simply ensuring compliance with existing rules. The alternative is our currently operative “close one eye” culture. While I did compare Malaysian stories to ones from the …

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Demand for accountability

Two independent and separate events in England and Chicago were very telling; even for Malaysians a world away. Both involved the process of judicial review which found public officials guilty of criminal negligence through a specific demand for accountability by citizens. The first was the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, and the other was the Chicago …

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