Wonder why the patriotic and seemingly self regulating media are not interested in doing a continuous blitz on how the ‘Mat Rempit’ are terrorising the streets in the federal capital city of Kuala Lumpur.

Anyone who takes a ride or drive down Jalan Raja Laut and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman on a weekend night between 9pm till midnight is in for a heart-arresting experience.

The motorcyclists gather in huge numbers by the tens of hundreds. They storm the streets in groups of fifties as they rev their modified racing kap chais and break all traffic rules with daredevil stunts.

Their total disregard for traffic lights at every junction will make any normal person shiver with fright as these youths - mostly young Malays, zip left, right and middle of all lanes along the named roads and beat the traffic lights.

Perhaps if the local journo descended at the scenes they may be in all likelihood be swamped by the menacing racers, their sponsors and those lining the roads with heavy bets to boot.

Perhaps that, too, explains why a passing traffic police car would play blind to the blatant breach of traffic rules.

What does it say about Malaysians and the government?

Suppose if some day a foreign tourist gets mauled on the streets for going to shop in Sogo at night, and a foreign media does a scoop and publishes the story, are we going to scream “lies”?

Have these wayward youths who have earned the name ‘Mat Rempit’ and were even compassionately supported by a politician, taken over the streets?

Has the law taken a back seat?

Surely the government has failed to address the symptoms and the definite, deeper causes of this phenomenon that will easily frighten any tourist away, let alone normal law-abiding citizens.

While we are on this scary development, let us also take stock of the raging Malaysian motorists we often read about and see on social media.

Not only do ordinary citizens burst into a rage on the road but these days we also read and watch how leaders within the main governing political party behave.

The latest is one involving an incident in Kedah.

Or how about all the adamant illegal parking and blocking of traffic that is now seemingly a ‘normal’ thing these days?

And the speed-breaking demons that fly past on expressways?

Indeed considering the way Malaysian motorists behave - including the now completely out of control Mat Rempit, is it wrong to say that these reflect a government’s failure?

Those of us who have travelled the world will readily agree that we are way, way, far behind even in comparison with the road users in neighboring countries, to say the least.

Over to you Honourable Prime Minister of Malaysia. How on earth do we now compute your ‘endless promises’ when how Malaysians behave and abuse the law on the roads is far, far off from other citizens’ experience across the globe?