This is what we call responsibility.
3. a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible: the responsibilities of authority.
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil has submitted his resignation taking “moral responsibility” for the Mumbai attacks that killed nearly 200 people.
The dust has just settled. An inquiry has yet to be carried out, given the focus on rebuilding and helping the injured and the families of the victims.
I compare this action taken by the Indian Home Minister to our very own Home Minister over the Mas Selemat escape.
When Mas Selemat escaped, he stopped short of an apology. (This should never have happened. I am sorry that it has.)
When the report made by a independent commission came out, he pinned the blame and on the ground level all the way up but the highest level(him) wasn’t to be blamed, and he promised to punish all of those responsible. He refused to accept any personal responsibility for the mistake and told us to move on. PM Lee said the same thing, our newspapers spared no time spinning the wool. (Mr Wong announced that junior officers “all the way up” to the supervisory and management levels of the WRDC will be disciplined and penalised.)
I leave you to decide and form your own opinion.
Which minister, if we disregard their huge disparity in pay, fit the job description of a public servant which includes this word: responsibility
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