There is no ground for the government to apologise for the accident during a drag race at the recent Himpunan Jutaan Belia in the federal administrative capital of Putrajaya last month, the Youth and Sports Ministry says.
“The matter of apologising does not arise, as I have explained earlier... and we took responsibility. All those injured were sent to the hospital, it was not as if they were left unattended,” its minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek (BN-Kemaman) reasoned in the Dewan Rakyat today.
“The matter of apologising does not arise, as I have explained earlier... and we took responsibility. All those injured were sent to the hospital, it was not as if they were left unattended,” its minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek (BN-Kemaman) reasoned in the Dewan Rakyat today.
Shabery argued that even the victims’ families understood that “had their children not been there, they would have gone somewhere else” and may have faced other mishaps, and have forgone suing the government, as certain quarters had urged.
He said the drag racing event, which was one of four extreme sports events among more than 500 programmes scheduled during the youth rally, was organised by a company that is well-experienced in such events.
He was responding to a supplementary question from Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR-Lembah Pantai) on whether the government intended to apologise for the mishap, that saw seven members of the audience injured when a drag racing car slammed into the gallery during the accident last month.
Isolated events like the accident and a controversial K-Pop performance, said the minister, do not reflect bad on the government they formed a small percentage of the over 500 other events.
Shabery also called the youth rally a success, boasting that it was attended by more than two million youngsters and that Malaysia was probably the only country in the world that allowed its federal administrative capital to be used by youths several times a year for them to do what ever they wanted to, within reason.
He said the drag racing event, which was one of four extreme sports events among more than 500 programmes scheduled during the youth rally, was organised by a company that is well-experienced in such events.
He was responding to a supplementary question from Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR-Lembah Pantai) on whether the government intended to apologise for the mishap, that saw seven members of the audience injured when a drag racing car slammed into the gallery during the accident last month.
Isolated events like the accident and a controversial K-Pop performance, said the minister, do not reflect bad on the government they formed a small percentage of the over 500 other events.
Shabery also called the youth rally a success, boasting that it was attended by more than two million youngsters and that Malaysia was probably the only country in the world that allowed its federal administrative capital to be used by youths several times a year for them to do what ever they wanted to, within reason.
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