Another mishap, another case of evading responsibility

Last weekend, a ferry heading for Pulau Tioman caught fire; in the end, four lives were claimed. Instead of working to mitigate problems of this happening again, our marine department has moved quickly to claim that the ferry had no license, this and that.

I am really surprised at the speed that department has moved to clear its name and responsibility of the incident at hand. Frankly, I am kinda fedup.

A few months ago, when an accident involving an express bus claimed lives and raised questions, another department moved quick to claim that the bus driver had numerous summons, bad records, etc. Immediately, it would seem that the whole responsibility of the tragedy fell on the driver and the bus company.

Is that how it should be? Frankly, the main bulk of the responsibility is on the relevant departments. The attention was shifted to why did the bus company allow such a driver to operate a bus or why the ferry company still ran the ferry services.

The real question should be why are the departments allowing bus drivers like that (if it is true of the charges at all) to be operating and why has the marine department not clamped down on such illegal operations (if it really has no license in the first place)?

Do not wait for a tragedy to happen to start doing your job. You are being paid to look after the safety of the public. It is not your job to only investigate accidents; but to mitigate and prevent accidents. Do not look for others to blame, look at your own faults and improve. Remember, I am not asking, I am telling you it's your job!