Tis’ another glaring example of incompetency of governance! It is a simple thing for ROS to just let it be known the fact – whether DAP had responded/replied by way of submission to ROS of a report on its CEC election on Dec 15 within 60 day timeline. “I was told by the ROS there was none,” said HH, so the whole mainstream went to town on the DAP being ordered to be investigated by ROS with prospects of being deregistered as political society on eve of a watershed GE – when the fact was that its annual report and explanation were submitted by the party way within prescribed period for which the ROS has now to re-state he facts, apologise and cause its political boss to stand corrected! Incompetency is one thing. Disconnect and poor information flow between bureaucracy and their political bosses? Organizations have the tendency recruit and keep people like their bosses up the hierarchy, thus becoming victims of group think, to become deferent to authority and highly identified to the top’s policy agenda – not only when decisions or conclusions reached are bias but even when facts are wrong! In part its because everyone is self-interested in career advancement: the superiors feed information without checking to their political bosses what they like to hear, and lower level subordinates don’t want to jeopardize their careers by saying that their bosses are wrong even on he facts, let alone opinion and decisions! This kind of syndrome is even worse after 50 years of rule building up such a system.