He was answering a question from Foong Po Kuan (DAP-Batu Gajah) who wanted to know how the investigation into the case was proceeding.
In January, the trainee, Basant Singh, alleged that his hair was cut while asleep at the Sungai Bakap NS training camp. This caused an uproar, with opposition members of parliament taking the NS Department to task over the issue.
Abdul Latif said the ministry through the department had interviewed about 16 witnesses of the alleged incident.
The deputy minister said two levels of investigations into the case were carried out. The first being an investigation at the camp level on Jan 17 and the second by the NS department on Jan 19.
The outcome of the second investigation is pending.
He said although the investigators questioned 16 people, they never interviewed the boy who complained of the incident as he was on leave from camp.
He also said that the government would not discontinue the NS programme just because of one or two unpleasant incidents.
“If a death occurred in school compounds by accident, don’t tell me you want to close down the (whole) school,?” he told Foong after she queried if the government would close down NS camps which had such problems. - FMT
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