WP should should learn to show integrity first. Otherwise, how could they perform their role as checks and balances versus PAP as oposition members?
politics and integrity are mutually exclusive concepts...
remember.. the sins of one party does not exonerate the other of theirs
WP is there to help put corruption on check. Now, Since WP does not show integrity which also means WP has high potential to be corrupted themselves. That is a problem. I would not want anyone like that in the government.
"There is no way a Minister can avoid investigations and a trial if there is evidence to support one".
- then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, quoted in the Straits Times, Jan 27, 1987
1. Former Minister for National Development Tan Kia Gan from the PAP was found to have tried to assist his close businessman friend Lim Tjin Hauw and his son William Lim to sell a Boeing aircraft to Malaysian Airways. He was also middleman for his brother-in-law in the sale of a tin mine to Lim. In return, he was given $70,000 worth of shares.
After investigations in August 1966, as witnesses did not want to implicate him, Tan Kia Gan was administratively stripped of all public appointments by the Government.
2. Wee Toon Boon, then Minister of State for Environment from the PAP was found to have used his ministerial status to make representations to civil servants on behalf of developer Lauw Tjin Ho. In return, he was rewarded with a bungalow, galvanised roofing for his home, free air tickets for him and his family and back overdrafts to speculate in shares.
In April 1975, Wee was charged for corruption involving $839, 023, sentenced to 4 and half years imprisonment and ordered to pay a penalty of $7,023. His jail sentence was reduced to 18 months after he successfully appealed against one of the 5 charges.
3. Teh Cheang Wan, then Minister for National Development from the PAP accepted bribes totalling $1 million from 2 private companies, for helping them retain aby buy over a piece of state land for private development.
Teh was investigated in 1986 and committed suicide before he could be formally charged in court. He maintained till the end that he was innocent.
Originally posted by CannotTahan:WP has high potential to be corrupted themselves.
All man made institutions has potential to be corrupt.
Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:All man made institutions has potential to be corrupt.
People are very concerned over hawker centre cleaning.
Really.
At least they are doing their job.
Better than some one who never do their job and only good at pointing fingers.
Dun come out and make any blame.
Take a look at yourself and repent.
TRE got another expose on this saga.
Dig out another hawker info.
The National Solidarity Party (NSP) has called on the ruling People's Action Party and the opposition Workers' Party not to exploit the ongoing hawker centre cleaning dispute for "political gain".
NSP secretary-general Hazel Poa said on Monday night in a statement that her party is "troubled by what we see as the declining level of discourse in our politics recently", and "a growing culture of partisan bickering".
Ms Poa called on both parties to focus on a thorough post-mortem, and to focus debate instead on recent licensing rules for news websites and the country's preparedness during the recent haze. These are issues which are "top of mind for all Singaporeans" currently, she added.
Ms Poa said the website rules would have a chilling effect on free expression. She also asked why the Government did not issue stop-work orders during the peak of the haze, and why the Government's stockpile of masks bought with taxpayer money were given to retailers to sell for profit. She also suggested an "emergency response czar", or a senior minister, to head an inter-ministry committee to ensure the Government communicates clearly in emergencies.
Ms Poa added that "good leaders do not point fingers when things go (wrong) or single out private citizens in an attempt to embarrass them."
She did not elaborate. But a week ago, Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim named blogger Ravi Philemon as among those who caused unnecessary public anxiety during last month's haze by spreading rumours. Mr Philemon is a member of NSP.
Ms Poa said leadership is about being honest and open about errors, and focussed on problem-solving.
"That is the kind of leadership that Singaporeans voted for in the last general elections, not what we have been seeing in Parliament of late," she said, adding that elected MPs have a duty to ensure that parliamentary sessions focus on discussing issues that matter to the people.
Originally posted by iveco:We need NSP to sit in Parliament on the crossbenches. Nicole Seah would certainly be one of those I hope to see, along with the level-headed Hazel Poa.
Yes to Nicole Seah.
WP not up to the job. Do you think PAP is also not up the their job?
Originally posted by SJS6638:Yes to Nicole Seah.
PAP not up to their job, WP not up to the job, Nicole Seah hasn't done the job yet.
Originally posted by sgdiehard:PAP not up to their job, WP not up to the job, Nicole Seah hasn't done the job yet.
Thinking of it realistically, I am hoping for a new party which is with passion, commitment, willing and interested in governance of the country to come on board to rule the country.
I tell myself dream on.................. not that it is impossible but at least I doubt it will not happen any time soon in the future.
We have found the best tooth pick in singapore today.
Thanks to one who went around singapore testing the tooth picks after every meal in all the restaurants in singapore.
Not only did he determined the best and he have also led by example to tao bao half the tooth picks on the table after his meal.