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From: DAP MALAYSIA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [ba-secretariat] Kayveas on DTC fire - "Fools rush in where angels
fear totread"
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:50 AM
Media Statement by DAP National Chairman Lim Kit Siang in Petaling Jaya on
Thursday, 16th August 2001:
Government should end the politics of insinuation and rule
of rumour-mongering by make public all the three investigation reports on
the Dewan Tunku Canselor fire to let the people decide for themselves the
cause of the fire
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Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government M Kayveas has rushed in
where “angels fear to tread”, declaring categorically that the June
29 fire that destroyed Dewan Tunku Canselor (DTC) in Universiti Malaya
was a work of sabotage, countering an earlier news report which stated that
the blaze was caused by a short-circuit.
After more than a month after the mass media reported that the
investigation conducted by the Fire and Rescue Department showed that the
fire was the result of an old and overloaded wiring system, Kayveas refuted
the reports, declaring that he has yet to see a report from the Fire and
Rescue Department saying that it was a short circuit, and announced: “After
the investigation and studies done by myself, (I conclude) it’s a sabotage.
It’s very clear.”
It is significant that when pressed for the exact content of the final
report from the six-man special task force headed by Negeri Sembilan Fire
and Rescue Department director Othman Abdullah, Kayveas said that he did
not get a copy of the report.
Yet Kayveas has the temerity to pronounce on the cause of the DTC fire,
probably believing that he has an excuse of last resort - that he was
only giving his personal opinion!
Kayveas is way ahead not only of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr.
Mahathir Mohamad and the entire Cabinet, but of the Police, the Fire and
Rescue Department and the Chemistry Department which had conducted
separate investigations into the DTC fire in arriving at the cause of the
DTC fire.
Last month, Mahathir admitted that he had read the reports of the three
agencies which had submitted their findings on the DTC fire - namely the
Fire and Rescue Department, the police and the Chemistry Department - and
that they said three things, viz:
· that the three agencies did not concur on the cause of the DTC
fire;
· that the investigations by the three agencies were not conclusive
yet although there were signs pointing to electrical problems and
short-circuit; and
· the possibility of arson could not be dismissed.
If the Fire and Rescue Department had pinpointed a short circuit as the
probable cause of the DTC fire, is Kayveas publicly declaring that he has
no confidence in the professionalism of the Fire and Rescue Department
which is directly under his Ministry and would he ask for a complete
overhaul of the leadership of the Fire and Rescue Department?
The government should end the politics of insinuation and rule
of rumour-mongering by make public all the three investigation reports on
the Dewan Tunku Canselor fire by the Fire and Rescue Department, the police
and the Chemistry Department to let the people decide for themselves the
cause of the fire.
Kayveas’ outburst is the height of irresponsibility especially under the
prevailing conditions when the authorities are on a witch-hunt to
clamp-down on student activists in the university campuses to purge the
universities of healthy and legitimate dissent, whether through the
indiscriminate use of the draconian Internal Security Act or the further
emasculation of academic freedoms of students and academicians by even more
oppressive amendments to the Universities and University Colleges Act.
- Lim Kit Siang -
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