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Faisal Manap testifies that WP's top leaders knew about Raeesah Khan's lie but kept it from others in party: Privileges committee

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SINGAPORE — Workers’ Party (MP) vice-chair Faisal Manap has testified to Parliament's Committee of Privileges that the opposition party’s top three leaders had known for months that former WP MP Raeesah Khan had lied to the House on Aug 3 and repeated the untruth on Oct 4, but they did not reveal this to the r

On Saturday , the committee released its second report on the hearings into the matter. According to minutes of the committee's meetings, it would call on the three WP top leaders — Mr Faisal, WP chief Pritam Singh, WP chairman Sylvia Lim — to give evidence. Ms Raeesah's erstwhile fellow Sengkang GRC MP, Associate Professor Jamus Lim, would also be asked to testify.

The committee pointed out in its report that Mr Faisal"brought a note with him to the hearing"."He said that he had prepared it, to remind himself of the sequence of what had happened," the committee's report stated. According to the report issued by the committee on Saturday, Mr Faisal testified that Ms Raeesah had a meeting on Aug 8 with Mr Singh, Ms Lim and himself where she confessed that she lied during her parliamentary speech on Aug 3.

 

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