Rebels without a pause

Race ends: Some of the Mat Rempit being hauled up during an operation against illegal racing in Penang.

IN a recent The Star poll asking readers if they supported a proposal to close certain city roads at night to allow Mat Rempit to race, 92% of readers said no.

Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor should wonder why. It had been his idea. “We will control the situation because we realise that this is entertainment for them, they have no other means to entertain themselves due to high costs,” he explained, tactfully referring to the Rempit as “Mat Moto”.