The government has officially announced the formation of a Committee of Inquiry. Your persistence ensured that this matter will receive the thorough and independent review it requires. We will continue to monitor the proceedings closely to ensure full transparency remains the priority.
September 19, 2023
We, Singaporean calling for the Government to setup a Committee of Inquiry (COI) to provide the full facts on 26 and 31 Ridout rental by 2 ministers
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Reached 1,000 supporters
July 1, 2023
June 29, 2023
The number of signatures is nearing one thousand. Reaching this milestone will provide the necessary impetus to demand an independent inquiry.
May 29, 2023
The petition has now reached one hundred signatures. This level of interest confirms the public desire for a transparent inquiry into these rental agreements.
Reached 100 supporters
May 27, 2023
490 Comments
I do feel there is a need for an account, lawyer and real estate professional to be in the committee to objectively analyse this issue to suss out shortcomings and make recommendation for improvement.
This matter seems more serious than the lying on parliament by RK of WP. This concerns matter of integrity by 2 sitting ministers of the ruling party. A COI would clear them of any stain to their reputation.
One cannot claim "Nothing to hide", and call for an "independent" review and yet have one to be carried out by a long-time close colleague from the same party. Singapore is not some corrupted third-world country. Others will be laughing at Singapore if we allow this.
I urge for an independent inquiry to be held. Ministers cannot investigate other ministers. As LKY said, we need to he fair but more importantly we MUST BE SEEN to be fair! A situation of "own self investigate own self" will never lend be seen to be a fair and unbiased investigation!
COI have the power to request for whatsapp, emails, documents and interview the ministers directly. Like Raeesah Khan's incident. Transparency and accountablity, not "ownself check ownself" I know this will not happen, with the current one-party government.
I am for the FULL TRUTH and FACTS,
If the ministers said to "recuse" themselves during investigation, then why did they want to rent the state-owned properties knowing it would bring much speculations and cause much anxiety, problems and inconvenience to oneself and others? More so, to involve mainly civil servants of low ranking and high ranking civil servants to investigate the matter. Thus literally causing disruptions in their normal cause of duties and hence "squandering" of taxpayers' monies in view that the salaries of these civil servants of both high and low ranking arecdrwn from taxpayers' monies - wasting of time and resources as a result. In my opinion, why get their own peers to conduct the investigation? How much can the public trust? Yes, to call for an independent party not related to the govt body to conduct an true and factual COI is needed to ascertain the true facts of the rentals.
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The government has officially announced the formation of a Committee of Inquiry. Your persistence ensured that this matter will receive the thorough and independent review it requires. We will continue to monitor the proceedings closely to ensure full transparency remains the priority.
September 19, 2023
We, Singaporean calling for the Government to setup a Committee of Inquiry (COI) to provide the full facts on 26 and 31 Ridout rental by 2 ministers
Final supporters
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
July 1, 2023
June 29, 2023
The number of signatures is nearing one thousand. Reaching this milestone will provide the necessary impetus to demand an independent inquiry.
May 29, 2023
The petition has now reached one hundred signatures. This level of interest confirms the public desire for a transparent inquiry into these rental agreements.
Reached 100 supporters
May 27, 2023
490 Comments
The people need to know the truth whether there’s any wrong doing, how much is the rental, who paid for the pool, tennis court, interior design, etc, please include more people who are truly impartial and independent, it’s a real joke that SMTeo is always the Goto person to resolve all these sagas
I do feel there is a need for an account, lawyer and real estate professional to be in the committee to objectively analyse this issue to suss out shortcomings and make recommendation for improvement.
This matter seems more serious than the lying on parliament by RK of WP. This concerns matter of integrity by 2 sitting ministers of the ruling party. A COI would clear them of any stain to their reputation.
One cannot claim "Nothing to hide", and call for an "independent" review and yet have one to be carried out by a long-time close colleague from the same party. Singapore is not some corrupted third-world country. Others will be laughing at Singapore if we allow this.
I urge for an independent inquiry to be held. Ministers cannot investigate other ministers. As LKY said, we need to he fair but more importantly we MUST BE SEEN to be fair! A situation of "own self investigate own self" will never lend be seen to be a fair and unbiased investigation!
COI have the power to request for whatsapp, emails, documents and interview the ministers directly. Like Raeesah Khan's incident. Transparency and accountablity, not "ownself check ownself" I know this will not happen, with the current one-party government.
I am for the FULL TRUTH and FACTS,
If the ministers said to "recuse" themselves during investigation, then why did they want to rent the state-owned properties knowing it would bring much speculations and cause much anxiety, problems and inconvenience to oneself and others? More so, to involve mainly civil servants of low ranking and high ranking civil servants to investigate the matter. Thus literally causing disruptions in their normal cause of duties and hence "squandering" of taxpayers' monies in view that the salaries of these civil servants of both high and low ranking arecdrwn from taxpayers' monies - wasting of time and resources as a result. In my opinion, why get their own peers to conduct the investigation? How much can the public trust? Yes, to call for an independent party not related to the govt body to conduct an true and factual COI is needed to ascertain the true facts of the rentals.
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The people need to know the truth whether there’s any wrong doing, how much is the rental, who paid for the pool, tennis court, interior design, etc, please include more people who are truly impartial and independent, it’s a real joke that SMTeo is always the Goto person to resolve all these sagas