A Royal Commission Of Inquiry that isn't!

By Jeff Ooi,

Justice for Beng Hock? He is short-changed and cheated!

Collectively, Najib and his Cabinet had cheated Beng Hock a full Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate into his suspicious death!

Today, Najib announced his Cabinet's decision that implied that there will NOT be a a Royal Commission of Inquiry to look into Beng Hock's death.

Beng Hock's death will now be investigated by an inquest that will be presided by a magistrate, meaning a junior officer of the Malaysian Judiciary, and Correct Correct Correct, you know its track record.

The Cabinet has only agreed to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to look into the interrogation methods used on him by the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission).

With the inquest, police papers and evidence will be depended upon heavily by the magistrate in conducting the investigation.

This is a huge deficit of the People's trust and public expectations.

That is because, going by track records, our magistrate-presided inquests are wholly deficient to look into cause of death.

That was the reason for the Select Committee and the Bar Council to recommend in 2006 for specialised Coroner's Court to deal with such death cases which, hitherto, has yet to be passed.

I personally met Beng Hock's aggrieved family and attended Beng Hock's funeral. The decision of Najib's Cabinet is unsatisfactory and totally unacceptable.

The ins-and-outs that caused Beng Hock's death within the MACC HQ must be an integral part of the same Royal Commission of Inquiry that will look into the interrogation methods used on him by the MACC.

Tee Keat & Tsu Koon agreed?

When MCA's Ong Tee Keat and Gerakan's Koh Tsu Koon told Malaysians they will press for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate into Beng Hock's death, did they follow through with their promise during the Cabinet meeting today?

BN used to boast all Cabinet decisions are by consensus.

Did Tee Keat, Tsu Koon, and all BN ministers press for a RCI into the causes of Teoh’s death?

Or are they out-voted by the rest of the Cabinet?

Or all along, they had agreed to only have a RCI into the investigative techniques of MACC, but not into Teoh’s death?

We don't need another Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate how Tee Keat and Tsu Koon -- and all other BN ministers -- had voted to short-change Beng Hock in telling the truth.

We just need to tell them to resign.