Members of parliament have been urged to consider if Parliament should adjourn next Thursday if it becomes increasingly unlikely that the black box of MH370 is going to be retrieved.
In a media conference statement by DAP Parliament leader and MP for Gelang Patah, Lim Kit Siang, said time is running out fast to find the blackbox with only three days left to retrieve it.
He adds that despite the search involving 12 planes, 10 ships, a submarine, with more than 100 men and women in the air and more than 1,000 people at sea, the prospects of finding the missing MH370 Boeing 777 have become increasingly pessimistic, forlorn and desperate.
The current Parliament session ends next Thursday on April 10.
Lim said that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet has yet to respond to the call for the establishment of an Opposition-headed Parliamentary Select Committee on the MH370 disaster.
“Time is not only running out for the retrieval of the “black boxes” before their batteries expire, time is also running out for the Malaysian Parliament to play a meaningful role in the MH370 disaster before Parliament adjourns next Thursday,” he said.
He hopes with the establishment of this committee, it will send a clear and unmistakable message, both nationally and internationally, that the Malaysia has nothing to hide and is prepared to find answers to the “thousand-and-one questions” which have surfaced in the past four weeks.
Lim said that Parliament will be committing an unpardonable dereliction of duty if Parliament adjourns without any concrete measures as to the role of Malaysian Mps can play in the MH370 disaster, and in restoring national and international confidence in the transparency, good governance and international reputation of Malaysia.
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Thu Apr 03 2014
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