So silly me thinks!

He was with us for a while only. How I know later he want to jump? Not my fault what!

Isn't it just weird? A Royal Commission of inquiry to enquire MACC's investigative procedures stemming from Teoh Beng Hock's death and at the same time have a death inquest into the political aide's death. I tell you why its so weird.

1) The terms of reference for the RC do not make any sense for it only is only going to be looking at the investigative procedures of the MACC.

2) Whilst the death inquest set up for next week is to inquire into how and why Teoh died.

Wouldn't it be easier for all parties if the RC to be set up incorporates the death of Teoh as part of its terms of reference? The witnesses would all be the same wouldn't they? Documents chances are would be the same and even the investigations into the case certainly must be the same...so why the duplicity? Wouldn't it also be saving precious time and costs if just one party i.e just the RC conducts the inquiry?

The inquest is also not a very good idea because chances are the magistrate sitting as a coroner in the inquest would be a junior officer with only a few years experience. Would the intense public interest generated by the inquest be too much for such a junior officer to handle? Would he/she be overwhelmed by the occasion and the personalities that are to appear before him/her? Would there be undue pressure to "toe the line"?

I don't know about you but I am certainly convinced that this latest measure by the government is the wrong way to resolve this most delicate matter. Public confidence in the institutions of government is at an all time low. To me the measures taken by the government is just not going to make matters any better.

Anyway since when is the RC of any real use anyways? Remember what happened after a RC was set to inquire into the police force? Yup....nothing happened. The recommendations of the RC then was shelved by the government. What happened after the RC inquiring into the Lingam tapes? Yup....Nothing again.

So what guarantee do we Malaysians have that things would be different this time around?

M V Nathan