Caretaker Transport Minister, Wee Ka Siong owes an explanation to the people affected by the recent breakdown of the LRT Kelana Jaya service. Certainly, Wee cannot wash his hands when something as major as this has happened, not once, but on several other occasions.
For five days, many of the regular commuters had to go through inconveniences. It cannot remain a mystery that only the minister knows the root cause; unless, of course, there is something sinister that the authority tries to hide.
Wee only has to look at how Singapore handled the problem, when its MRT system failed on July 7, 2015 – the company operating the MRT services was fined a total of S$5.4m for a mere few hours’ breakdown. Back here, Wee, in his election fever, could only play the blame game and used the DAP as a punching bag for exaggerating the incident.
I have three questions to ask Wee:
- Shouldn’t someone take responsibility for this incident which dragged on for five consecutive days?
- Shouldn’t the Ministry of Transport take disciplinary action against those who were in charge?
- Shouldn’t a hefty fine or even termination of the contracts for the engineers, suppliers or contractors involved if they are held culpable for the service disruption?
The people had enough of this kind of disruption that affects their quality of life yet, no one was punished for it.