Recent political scandals have revealed “a pattern of behaviour” of the People’s Action Party “engaging in half-truths on matters of significant public interest”, charged Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh on Wednesday .
He also referenced the privacy concerns of TraceTogether, the rental of the Ridout Road state properties, former Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin and MP Cheng Li Hui’s affair and the corruption probe involving Transport Minister S Iswaran. In a press conference on the same day, Mr Lee told the media that he first found out about the affair after the last General Election held in July 2020. On Wednesday, Mr Lee revealed that he initially learned of the affair in November 2020.
Responding to Mr Singh’s question, Leader of the House Indranee Rajah noted that the names for the House Committee were put forward by herself, as the PAP’s representative, and Mr Singh was consulted on the nomination of opposition party members. “Therefore, it was not possible for this thing to be kept quiet and it had to be stated upfront. But would they know where the investigation would lead? At that point, no.”
"But CPIB found out and they told me and they decided to investigate the matter... and they proceeded. It reached a point where they needed to interview the minister and then they came to tell me and say 'can I have your concurrence', because CPIB reports to somebody. It has to report to somebody. It can't report to God.
A former MP for Sengkang GRC, Ms Khan resigned from the Workers' Party and as an MP after she lied in parliament that she had accompanied a victim of sexual assault to a police station, alleging that the police mishandled the case. "What was the point in relation to Ms Khan? It was that in August, Mr Singh, Ms Sylvia Lim and Mr Manap were told by her that she had lied in parliament. This is not about rape, this is not about sexual assault. This is about her lying in parliament."
In response, Mr Lee noted that Mr Palmer's affair involved a staff member with whom he had a “reporting relationship”. On June 5, 2020, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said in Parliament that TraceTogether would strictly be used for contact tracing. He reiterated this point a few days later.clarified in Parliament
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