I saw in the papers yesterday that Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha said the investigation report will soon be made public. He also mentioned to the media that 'something went wrong'. Well I'll be looking forward to know what it is that went wrong! I guess with Raya around the corner and the PKFZ and cowhead issue, the Jaya issue got left behind a bit...but I'm also sure the authorities are doing what they can under the circumstances.
The reporting was pretty uneven. I observed a few discrepancies etween the reports in the media. Ok, so I cannot read Chinese, so I can't say what's on there. Firstly, I noticed that none of the English papers named the agencies involved in compiling the investigation report. But the Malay papers did. But, the Malay papers also got the agencies mixed up. According to Utusan, these are the agencies: Ikram, Dosh, JKR, MPPJ (notice the wrong acronym!!), IEM and LAM. According to Harian Metro, the agencies are CIDB, MBPJ, JKR, IEM, LAM, Bomba and PDRM.
So which are the actual agencies? Safe to say MBPJ, JKR, IEM and LAM were involved. They should be anyhow. But I seriously think Ikram and Dosh were also part of the report commitee, with Bomba and PDRM. Not sure about CIDB, though.
The Malay paper Utusan also worngly stated that the number of deaths in the collapse was 4 Indonesians. In actuality 7 Indonesian workers died.
One of the papers (dont recall which) also named one of the firms: DP Architects. From earlier reporting several months ago, there were 7 firms blacklisted. So why only this one was mentioned? As the architect, I imagine they were the submitting authority, so maybe thats why.
All in all, it appears to me that the press ambushed the minister when he exited the cabinet meeting, and in the haste to answer reporter's questions, and they're haste to take it all down, there was some misinfo communicated. I doubt they held a press conference otherwise sure there won't be these kinds of mistakes. Can any PR person advise me on that?
I'm interested in all aspects of demolition and bringing down old buildings, and this is my blog relating to the collapse of the old jaya supermarket. I find this case very interesting and am keeping track of developments as they happen.
About Me
- JMC Engineer
- Engineer by training! USed to work very closely with construction industry as subcon. Fascinated by the process of turning perfectly good buildings into rubble. call it a childhood obsession, I used to build then destroy lego towns and knock down other boys sandcastles on the beach!
