Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen will be delivering a ministerial statement to address the recent spate of National Service training deaths in Parliament on February 11. Meanwhile, MINDEF has also announced that they have appointed a 5 member panel of COI to investigate the death of NS man and local celebrity Aloysius Pang.
The COI was convened last Friday, and it will be chaired by judge nominated by the State Courts. All five members of the COI work with MINDEF or are SAF Regulars. Minister Ng have been quiet in the wake of Pang's death and did not even turn up when a serviceman under his watch was given a Military Funeral, having died serving the nation. So much for being a Defence Minister.
You could say the Defence Minister went MIA.
