STEAL MILO - JAIL: STEAL RM2.6BIL - ALL EXPENSES PAID TRIP TO SAUDI ARABIA?

When a mother steals Milo because she cannot afford it and her child is asking for it, she gets jail and RM200 fine. At the same time, news headlines scream of leaders allegedly having amassed billions and they are jet-setting across the world.

Does this case show the failure of the country?

Social media users commented that it is injustice when leaders of the country are embroiled in scandals amounting to billions of ringgit while the poor suffer.

They also said such is the state of our country at the moment that financial scandals amounting to billions of ringgit in government funds are being swept under the carpet, as exposing media gets gagged and others who speak up gets sacked.

In the heartrending case, the mother was jailed for one day in default of five days’ jail, for stealing a packet of Milo for her two-year-old child at a KK supermarket in Kuala Lumpur.

Magistrate Husna Dzulkifly handed down the sentence on S. Sellamah, 36, who pleaded guilty to the charge.

It is obvious that humanity was the last priority when she was arrested. The police, the DPP, the magistrate, the whole court and the society are all to blame, for they charged her in court.

The government is definitely to blame for having made the mother to come to such a situation — for where is the welfare department and the zakat agencies?

The ministers are all to blame for they are the reason the country is mismanaged and prices raised that she could not afford even a packet of Milo.

The neighbours and relatives are to blame for having been blind to her poverty.

In looking at the bigger picture, this case may be what is to come for the poor rakyat as increase after increase in food prices, toll rates and services rates are piled upon hard-working citizens, whose only aim is to ensure their children do not go to bed hungry.

Meanwhile, the politicians are all swarming over each other, trying to find who can gain more power and in that process, the circus literally parks itself in town. Ministers think it is time for jokes and try to push rempits onto the streets, as if it is not enough that there are thousands of homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur every night. The ones who are making the rules are out of touch with the reality on the ground.

With politics taking the main priority of news, it seems social justice in this country has taken a backseat, proven by this case of the mother who had to resort to stealing Milo for her child.

Moralists can comment that it is wrong to steal.

Politicians can comment that the mother’s predicament may be due to the failure of government agencies being not run properly by the current government.

And while we are all commenting, a child cries out for Milo and the mother cries too, for she cannot afford it. And then we turn to our portals to read the latest in politics. - http://www.theheatmalaysia.com/