Singapore — Workers’ Party Member of Parliament Leon Perera pointed out that while Health Minister Ong Ye Kung recently echoed a phrase WP leader Pritam Singh famously coined, Mr Ong seems to have failed “to recognise the original intent of that phrase — that ‘ownself check ownself’ is never sufficient.”that we “should never trust blindly in any government or institution.
Eleven MPs from the Workers’ Party and Progress Singapore Party objected to the passing of the bill, and two Nominated MPs abstained from the vote. “What if the Minister for Home Affairs – which FICA vests extensive powers in – is himself a subject of foreign interference? After all, ministers meet CEOs of foreign companies, ambassadors and other lobbyists as part of their jobs,” Mr Perera wrote in his post.As a safeguard, the WP proposed the establishment of an Ombudsman to be “an independent avenue of redress for ordinary citizens who want to lodge complaints against the government.
However, Mr Perera countered this, writing, “But trust levels in government have complex causes in each country. It would be overly simplistic to attribute it to a single cause, a point which he acknowledged carried ‘a kernel of truth’.”
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