DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang called the National Security Council’s handling of the Kelantan floods a 'disaster’. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 16, 2015.DAP today accused the National Security Council (NSC) of making up excuses to justify its weaknesses and failure in responding to and dealing with the recent floods that ravaged Kelantan.DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang was commenting on NSC secretary Datuk Mohamed Thajudeen Abdul Wahab who had likened the Kelantan floods to the triple earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that hit Japan in March 2011."Such a comparison is completely baseless although the purpose is very clear: to seek excuses for the weakness, lapses and even failures in disaster response, relief and reconstruction spearheaded by NSC," Lim said in a statement."Thajudeen was clearly more interested in looking for excuses for the lack of leadership, particularly the failure to declare a state of emergency and the sub-par disaster response, relief and reconstruction phases of the 2014 floods catastrophe."The Gelang Patah MP hit out at the NSC secretary, saying his statements to justify NSC's lack of action during the floods, which saw thousands fleeing from their homes, had highlighted the "sheer failure and disaster" of the disaster management preparedness of the NSC."As a result, we have the shocking episode of the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who only realised that the floods disaster was a 'major catastrophe' on the fourth day of his return, cutting short his vacation in Hawaii, after he had visited the two worst flood-stricken districts of Gua Musang and Kuala Krai."In an interview with Malay Mail Online yesterday, Thajudeen said the situation had been so severe that even the Kelantan District Office collapsed, effectively preventing the NSC from coordinating and receiving information from them.“Even if I have 50 or 100 officers down there, if I call everybody in the whole country to be there in Kota Baru, but if you can't communicate with them there, what can you do?" Thajudeen was quoted as saying.Lim cited Johor DAP chairman Liew Chin Tong that after four weeks, reconstruction of the affected areas had hardly begun.Liew in his report, after leading the flood relief mission, said hard-hit areas such as Kuala Krai remain unchanged and "increasingly worrying".Liew said Putrajaya should mobilise the armed forces to clean-up these areas to prevent an epidemic.Lim said the NSC should buck up in the second and third phases – relief and reconstruction – and urged Putrajaya to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to review the NSC's handling of the floods. – January 16, 2015.
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