COMMENT | Will politicians ever find the political will to solve the Mat Rempit (boy racers on motorbikes) menace, before more deaths occur? Why have the police also failed?

Many incidents in Malaysia are easily solved, but they quickly degenerate into race- or religious-based issues, especially when politicians and like-minded individuals get their grubby paws on the matter.

Some self-serving politicians will complicate matters and allow the problem to spiral out of control.

These incidents are not isolated. Sam Ke Ting (above) and the Mat Basikal (boy racers on bicycles) tragedy. Fireman Muhammad Adib Muhammad Kassim in the temple riots. Mothers Indira Gandhi and Loh Siew Hong whose children were unlawfully converted by their irresponsible convert husbands. A mobile theft at the Low Yat Plaza escalated into a racial threat.

In February 2017, Mat Basikals were racing illegally at 2am on a highway in Johor Baru. Eight teenagers died, two others were critically injured and six more teenagers were slightly injured, when Sam Ke Ting hit them.

Sam was twice tried and twice acquitted. The racial and religious bigots were dissatisfied, so the High Court quashed these outcomes...