Who's responsible, who will take responsibility?

What this source establishes

"According to news reports of Saturday, 73 bodies have been recovered and 76 rescued. Taking the official count of 179 passengers on board the MV Barima, it means that 30 of them are still unaccounted for." Lall does the same arithmetic the archive does and reaches the same place. "Over a week after the disaster, there is still uncertainty about how many passengers, paying or not, with a ticket or lacking one, were onboard the vessel."

Key claims

• "According to news reports of Saturday, 73 bodies have been recovered and 76 rescued. Taking the official count of 179 passengers on board the MV Barima, it means that 30 of them are still unaccounted for." Lall does the same arithmetic the archive does and reaches the same place.
• "Over a week after the disaster, there is still uncertainty about how many passengers, paying or not, with a ticket or lacking one, were onboard the vessel."
• [SINGLE SOURCE] "The management team of the Transport and Harbors Department has been sent on leave. The fear is that there could be tampering with evidence." — the evidence-tampering concern about the suspended management team is stated here as a live fear.
• [SINGLE SOURCE] "One senior government representative chose to use 'noise' to describe in derogatory fashion the anger over the disaster." The official is not named.
• Lall sets out the comparative record: the MV Sewol disaster contributing to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment and PM Chung Hong-won's resignation; Latvia's PM Valdis Dombrovskis resigning six days after the Maxima roof collapse; ministers resigning after rail crashes in Argentina, Egypt and Greece.
• "The people under whose watch that disaster occurred have one clear duty in front of them. Man or woman, they have to go."
• He identifies the parallel he considers dangerous: "Providing inaccurate information, minimizing loss, shifting blame, targeting dissenters, and massive corruption in the background."
• This is a signed opinion column, carrying Kaieteur's standard disclaimer; it asserts no facts about the three accused.

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