Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said yesterday that Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On had never avoided responsibility for the disaster caused by deadly Super Typhoon Hato in August.
Wong made the remarks when replying to oral interpellations by directly-elected lawmakers Ng Kuok Cheong and Ella Lei Cheng I during a plenary session of the legislature.
In his interpellation, Ng said that the Committee for Responding to Unforeseen Incidents, which was established in 2012 and chaired by Chui, had failed to properly organise disaster relief work during the aftermath of Hato which battered Macau on August 23. He questioned whether senior officials ducked responsibility and what measures the government will take to improve its organisation of disaster relief work in the future.
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak (centre, officials’ top row in front of public gallery), flanked by Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario (left), Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun, and other senior officials attend yesterday’s plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle. Photo: GCS
