‘Leaders must be able to take criticism, acknowledge mistakes’: PM Lee

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Even the current US president is being investigated for obstruction to justice. So if no decision is needed now on the property why was the ministerial committee being set up ? Who authorised the setting up of this committee and for what purpose ? The whole saga is getting more and more confusing . Is there really an abuse of power ?

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I think the ques should be

Is there any individual in Singapore bigger than the government?

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Ah Gong give up on trying to understand this case .

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Lee Hsien Yang responds to parliament session, doubles down on LKY’s wishes for demolition

Rebuttal.

By Thet Nyi Nyi | July 4, 2017


Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

After PM’s hour long speech, Lee Hsien Yang has responded with another Facebook post.



Summary of speeches on Oxley Road saga by other WP MPs whose name is not Low Thia Khiang

Quite a number of questions were asked by WP parliamentarians.


Here are the 2 main takeaways.

1. LKY seemed to be under the impression that the site would eventually be gazetted.

Although it has been gazetted as a heritage site it is still mine as an owner. But I cannot alter the basic structure of the house. And the cabinet has opposed tearing it down and rebuilding.

2. Lee Kuan Yew made the 2nd statement only as a last resort.

According to Lee Hsien Yang, it was this acknowledgement of eventual gazetting that lead to his later statement on the house



continue reading here : http://mothership.sg/2017/07/lee-hsi...or-demolition/


The response from LHY to LHL .

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Lee Hsien Loong made ‘false’ claims about father’s wishes on Oxley house: Wei Ling and Hsien Yang


Yahoo News Singapore3 July 2017



Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang said on Tuesday (4 July) that their older brother and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has made “convoluted but ultimately false” claims about their late father’s wishes for the 38 Oxley Road house.

In their first joint response following PM Lee’s Ministerial Statement on the family feud in Parliament on Monday (3 July), Wei Ling and Hsien Yang said – in a joint response posted on both their Facebook pages – that PM Lee is suggesting that because their father Lee Kuan Yew signed some renovation plans in early 2012, he was open to preservation of the house.

“From 2010, LHL improperly misrepresented to our father LKY that gazetting of 38 Oxley Road was either ‘inevitable’ or that the house was already gazetted. We now know that no decision has been made,” the siblings said.

Besides “improper representation and conflicts of interest” on the part of PM Lee, it shows the late Lee’s “considerations” of “alternatives” to demolition were “entirely due” to their brother’s representations about the house’s fate, they added.

In his Ministerial Statement on Monday, PM Lee told Parliament about the late Lee’s changing views on the fate of the house. He cited a proposal by him and his wife Ho Ching to “renovate the house and change the inside completely” and that the late Lee had accepted the proposal.

“LHL cites the renovation plans by Ho Ching as proof of a change (of) mind on the demolition. LKY was in fact very skeptical about the renovation plans, as these were inconsistent with LHL’s insistence that the house would be gazetted,” said Wei Ling and Hsien Yang, who also reproduced an e-mail that was sent by the late Lee to Ho Ching and his three children about the matter.

In September 2012, the late Lee believed that the government had already gazetted the house and asked his lawyer Kwa Kim Li to find the gazette order but Kwa could not find such an order, according to Wei Ling and Hsien Yang.


continue reading here : https://sg.news.yahoo.com/lee-hsien-...045037960.html

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Singapore PM misled Lee Kuan Yew over family house, says brother


By Bhavan Jaipragas

4 Jul 2017



The relatives of Singapore’s late founding leader have descended into publicly fighting over his estate. As the Lion City is gripped by the drama – and left to speculate on its undercurrents – questions arise about governance


Sons, mothers, money and memory: theories about the Lee Kuan Yew family feud

The estranged younger brother of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has accused the premier of misleading their father Lee Kuan Yew into thinking the government had gazetted their family house for preservation as a heritage site.

It was only because he believed this to be a fait accompli that the patriarch wavered in his wish to demolish the property upon his death, Lee Hsien Yang said in an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post.

The youngest of the three Lee children was countering his prime minister brother’s contention in parliament hours earlier that their father’s preference for demolition was not “black and white”.

Premier Lee spoke to lawmakers in a special legislative debate on Monday, revealing that their father had even approved architectural plans for interior renovation, showing he was open to less extreme options than demolition.

Lee family feud: key questions as Singapore PM faces grillingp

The house at 38 Oxley Road, the residence of Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. Photo: EPA

Lee Kuan Yew died in 2015 aged 91. The family feud over the fate of the Lees’ home of seven decades erupted into a national debate last month after Lee Hsien Yang and sister Lee Wei Ling went public with stunning accusations that the prime minister had abused his official position to get his way over the house.

They say Lee Hsien Loong wants 38 Oxley Road preserved as a monument to the Lee name so he can draw political capital from their father’s aura as the republic’s founding premier.


continue reading here : http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politi...e-says-brother

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‘Tough’ questions as PM Lee addresses Oxley Road saga



MPs call for independent inquiry or going to court to resolve the dispute


Linette HengFoo Jie Ying

Jul 04, 2017 06:00 am
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Following attacks on his and the Government's integrity, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday addressed Parliament on the Oxley Road house saga that has gripped Singaporeans.

It began in the early hours of June 14 when his younger siblings, Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling, dropped a bombshell on Facebook accusing him of several things, including misuse of power to set up a "secret" ministerial committee.

They alleged that he wanted to ensure their former family home at 38, Oxley Road, was not demolished against the wishes of their late father, founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.

In a 54-minute speech, PM Lee, who also lifted the party whip for the sitting, encouraged MPs to raise questions "vigorously and without restraint".

A total of 23 MPs spoke up on various issues, including:


WHY SET UP A MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE?

Mr Zaqy Mohamad (Chua Chu Kang GRC), Dr Tan Wu Meng (Jurong GRC), and Non-Constituency MP Leon Perera questioned the need for a ministerial committee to study the issue.

Mr Zaqy asked why it was looking into "personal family matters" and why there was a "hurry" to set up the committee when Dr Lee is still living in the house.

Mr Perera was concerned about the "non-transparent" nature of the committee, while Mr Zaqy wondered if an assessment and recommendations by relevant agencies would have sufficed.

He questioned why the committee seemed to be concerned with the late Mr Lee's last will when the court is the "proper platform" to challenge it.

Mr Perera also argued that an independent panel with the expertise and resources to perform expert heritage analysis and public opinion sensing would better address the issue, without any "compromise" that the members have to directly report to PM Lee.

PARLIAMENT RIGHT PLACE FOR DEBATE?

Nominated MPs Kuik Shiao-Yin and Kok Heng Leun called for an independent inquiry to be set up. Mr Kok said the public would want to hear from other parties involved.

"As such, Parliament might be the right place to air the Government's position but may not be the right place to settle this issue once and for all..." he said.

Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang (Aljunied GRC) suggested taking the dispute to court.

He told the House: "Settling this in court would enable everyone to put forward their side of the story with evidence and with dignity."

PM Lee had earlier said he decided not to take his siblings to court so as not to besmirch their parents' names.


continue reading here : http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/tou...xley-road-saga

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Sometimes I wonder how difficult it is to honour and fulfil one's last wishes ?