He's actually no Michael Scoffield

After weeks and months, the government has finally decided to disclose the very much awaited report on how the most famous Man in Singapore, Mas Selamat Kestari escaped our supposedly tight security detention centre. And low and below, the much anticipated mysteries behind his contrived manumission was in fact, downright simple. It was too simple, it has become incredulously silly and extremely embarrassing for Singapore. Sure, the ministries would assure us that they are confident that this matter would not lose Singapore's attractiveness to investors, however nothing can change the fact that our reputation of being one of the safest and secure country would surely be tarnished.

If they were to house the most wanted and dangerous terrorist in our detention centre, surely they should not lax on the most vital measures of keeping any detainee within the guards' sight. When MS was allowed to use the toilet situated nearer to the family unit, although those toilets were meant for guests and other staff, he entered the urinal in the cubicle and closed the door. Meanwhile, the guard standing outside the cubicle door was fooled the by sound of running water and just waited patiently for him to finish. When he realised that MS was taking too long in the cubicle, no, the hapless guy did not bang the door open to double-check, but informed the other guard standing outside the toilet, who apparently seemed to doubt his colleague because he proceeded to inform a female officer. And no, the broken telephone game is much longer than expected, because the female officer HAD to inform another officer about MS's dubious actions. With eleven precious minutes elapsed, any crippled man would have had a good headstart running away unscathed and unnoticed, especially through the coincidentally unhinged ventilation window and thread his way through the weak wiring of the fence outside the toilet. And to add on that litany of security lapses, MS exploited the timely fact that the CCTVs outside the camp were non-operational and under maintenance temporarily.

He didn't need to be Wentworth Miller, any Tom, Dick or Harry might have easily escaped too given the all too many poor judgements and erroneous assumptions the security personnel assigned to MS made. Well, Singapore, now that you've all let it out, I applaud your guts for choosing mortal embarrassment over further scrutiny from the public. Well this ought to be a lesson learnt and I, just like every concerned citizen sure hope the government DO quickly revamp their security measures in the Detention Centres, Rehabiliation Centres and other places of incarceration.

Oh well, boy, Im sure the perpetrators of this episode are sure going to have a hard tongue-lashing from the public now and the days to come, once the report hit headlines on tomorrow's newspaper.