ADUN SPEAKS | High time for Royal Commission of Public Service
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ADUN SPEAKS | The outgoing Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador was not the first high-ranking government officer to contradict his minister in public. Way back in 1990 the then retiring air force chief Mohamed Ngah Said took a swipe at his minister, Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen, who helmed the Defence Ministry.
However, there are several notable facts putting these two rare occurrences in their proper perspective and circumstances. While Abdul Hamid (
above) was a contract officer, the air force general Mohamed Ngah was not. And while Mohamed Ngah was serving a government whose legitimacy was not in question, Abdul Hamid was serving a government whose majority in Parliament has never been proved.