This is the typical coward who hides behind the safety of a GRC, instead of facing the electorate on his own two feet in a SMC. It's not his style to settle scores with his adversary mano-a-mano, that's good reason why he carries a feminine sounding name. And the hawker he is dragging into the fracas?
The cyber patrol of conscientious netizens has uncovered the identity of the hawker representative who requested an independent contractor to quote for the "Provision of manpower, equipments, material, chemicals, insurance and supervision for the cleaning of entire premises, consisting of 40 market stalls." That hawker representative is a Mr Ng Kok Khim, representative of Market Association of Block 538, and a long standing PAP grassroots leader at PAP’s Kaki Bukit division. So long that he has been actually cited for a Long Service Award. The red herring quote was supplied by the unabashedly partisan NEA. For the record, Mr Ng has not been asking anyone for an apology for anything. The really nasty partisan types send out lawyer's letters of demand.
If only the febrile Balakrishnan would pause to review the documentation, he would be able to avoid digging himself a sinkhole big enough to swallow up his fulminating ego and his party's soiled public standing. And spend more time on the dengue crisis, now fast approaching 1,000 case a week. 9,544 people have fallen ill, two have died, and the minister for Environment and Water Resources is pandering to politics instead of cleaning up the environment of water borne diseases.
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Under VB, SG has gone back to the swampland era. Once he and his Ministry have a chance to clean up their acts, the citizens will inspect the areas.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/06/11/singapore-dengue-outbreak-worsens/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/singapore-on-alert-after-dengue-fever-cases-rise-8654478.html
he must also apologize to the victims of the two families who died from dengue. ..we don't need him to stand by his words that dengue cases will keep rising... what we want is ACTIONS from him on how to ARREST the rising cases... time he goes back to doing his real gutter works.
Delete9544 infections and climbing!
DeleteThink we will cross the 10,000 mark before end of this month.
Maybe we should say thanks to those experiments across from our neighbors? Or did singapore's lab have anything to do with this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350708/Genetically-modified-mosquitoes-released-Malaysia-sparks-fears-uncontrollable-new-species.html
Dear friends, I am afraid that their main audience is still the 60.1 % daft singaporeans.
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, these 60.1 % does not bother to dig for the truth, they just read/watch the msm and believe it as nothing but the truth.
I have friends who are worried and sad that WP won Ponggol east .
Unbelievable that so many singaporenas are so blind and gullible !!
Are those friends of yours who felt sad that WP won Punggol east all members of the Singapore Society for the blind?
DeleteWhat exactly does a Hawker Association do here?
ReplyDeleteIs it like a hawkers union type of role?
Why is this Mr Ng involved in the quotation or cleaning work?
Are they an audited group? Who do they report to?
So many curious questions, and why is he hiding behind all this saga that he has single handedly created?
What is his intention or motive here?
That is the elephant in the room, no?
DeleteWho is in charge of the Hawker Association?
What is his political party affiliation?
Is he a card carrying member of any political party?
The 'honorable' Ng Kok Khim is a hawker, so he must be an honest man according to Vivian Bala. So he should do the right thing and come up and clarify how he started all this? What prompted him to initiate the quote? He apparently also runs a Waste Disposal/collection company. Will he magically decide to throw some waste around the neighborhood of Aljunied one day and ask how come WP didn't do their cleaning work, who will stop him huh?! I think the mainstream media clearly has not gotten on to the investigative journalism (like the brompton bike). Either that, or they are all in cahoots for not reporting it.
DeleteThe "Hawker Association" must be registered under the Societies Act or it will be an illegal society. Can someone check with the Registrar of Societies? If registered, it will be interesting to know who the officers are. Another AIM sag in the making?
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ReplyDeleteWhat a crude and inelegant way to handle this episode coming from someone who once was the best debater in school ( an elite school).
"Inspect the cleanliness...." indeed!! a one man suicide mission on behalf of the dear leader.
Oh dear! and he is still on vacation....
PM LEe : Always heartened to read of Singaporeans who help others, whether providing food to the poor like Mr Toh, or doing a something extra for our NSmen like Mr Tan (featured in ST http://bit.ly/161Yfod). There are many ways to help, and Mr Toh and Mr Tan do it the way they know best. I hope they inspire others to step out and spread this spirit of generosity. – LHL //
ReplyDeleteI think LHL should write a special article on this Ng Kok Khim leh.
How come never talk about his special role in helping to fix the opposition wards? Some hawkers are not only honest, others are even more honorable that they made it to the long service award, plus sit on committee and scheme and serve all sorts of "healthy" treats on behalf of his ruling party leh. What say you, PM Lee? Do you know what your Gutter Minister been doing? Did you approve this while on holidaying in Mt Fuji sucking fresh air while the citizens are blood-suckered by mosquitoes in the thousands ?
https://www.facebook.com/kokkhim.ng
DeleteClearly a fan of Sheng Shiong boss. Enough said.
Why is it that the PAP always shoot it's own feet whenever they tried to fix the opposition?
DeleteNow that they have identified the mole responsible, how are they going to convince Singaporeans that the NEA's action in this case is not politically motivated?
Hey Tattler, Can you help investigate the Singapore White Group? Something fishy with our government linked companies announcing setting up of townships in China.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a MIW group to me. Possible abuse of public institutions like HDB and URA to have projects overseas where Singaporeans have no idea nor control over.
Luckily, dengue didn't come from this hawker centre, if not our eyes and ears are going to suffer more of all these petty and childish brickbacks.
ReplyDeleteBtw, i wonder if the hawker centre suffers a drop in business because NEA implied that place is very dirty because its high ceiling wasn't cleaned? Customers will stay away for fear that dirty stuffs will be raining down from above. How to enoy our meals? With the onslaught of bad publicity by gahmen and NEA, they are actually doing a dis-service to their hawker supporters business.
So a mole there was one, but like termites, there always will be more, look further my dear netizens. Should we be bothered that the 60% chooses to believe the MSM? Sure but thats democracy, you cannot force them to read the internet if they feel comfortable believing in the past. On one point V Bala is correct - only one side can be correct, only one side is currently digging the graves for their children and grandchildren. At the pace the cock-ups are accumulating and being ignored by the PAP and its servants, the the day of reckoning will be here quite soon. We are all grave-diggers today; whoever turns out correct will not have an easy future because the pile of shit left behind by papigs is already higher than Bt Timah hill.
ReplyDeleteRaise your words, not your voice.
ReplyDeleteRaise your awareness, not your darkness.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
is Bala gonna charge the Hawkers for the ministerial quality inspection? It ain't gonna be cheap...
ReplyDeleteWhy not do the job you are actually paid to do?
DeleteDengue and mosquitoes.
How many more dengue cases does he want?
900, 9,000 or 90,000?
9000 infected and 2 deaths.
DeleteStatistically its insignificant.
They are more fearful that they get infected since mosquitoes can fly all over the place and infect them... SAF cant help and Police cannot either.
Many would have left town to hide overseas in cooler climes.... like someone we know is in Japan.
The smoking gun! Good job by the CSI crew in exposing this guttersnipe PAP mole in hawker's clothing. Gutter politics by the longkang minister? Unethical actions and morally decrepit intentions have a nasty habit of turning back and biting your own asses.
ReplyDelete"He added that the spread of dengue is a self-inflicted problem." How right. Would this have happened if they had not opened the floodgate, started all the construction frenzy, destroyed our last bit of natural greenery, and caused a hospital bed shortage which probably contributed to the 2 deaths?
http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/06/11/the-man-in-the-centre-of-ahpetc-controversy-is-a-pap-grassroots-leader/
Now, it seems that the dengue mosquito breeding in rooftop water tanks is less important an issue than the cleaning of hawker centres. Every day and every night the PAP mouthpiece aka mediacorpse seemed to be harping on the hawker centre cleaning dispute as if it is of national importance.
ReplyDeleteResidents of the water tanks found to be brreding mosquitos have been drinking mosquito larvaes for; I don't know how long' and the TC was just fined $200. That must be the mother of all jokes on April fools day.
Perhaps harping on the hawker centre cleaning issue is just to divert attention away from the mosquito breeding on rooftop issue.
And the father of all jokes is that they are blaming the birds for the problem. The same way that they blamed the trees and their branches for causing the once in 50 year floods in Orchard Road.
So finally the secret hard truth is out, ah ?
ReplyDeleteMost hawkers are hate NEA and by extension, PAP as many of them are pro-opposition. So I was quite surprised at first how can the Aljunied hawkers association can create so much trouble for WP Town Council officials.
Is PAP fast becoming the party for political scums ?
Every establishment seems to lead to the PAP. They controlled the Unions, the Law Society, the religious organisations, the community clubs, the people's association and now even attempting to control the hawkers by having their henchmen working behind the scene in the Hawkers Association and creating problems for the oppostion. And they denied having a hand in this fiasco. The may deny there is no political motive for all their worth, but Singaporeans know the PAP is always living in denial mode. What a shame!
ReplyDeleteOnly now then you know ah?
DeleteAlamak... like dat mati lah!
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ReplyDeleteI checked the Registry of Societies website regarding the "538 Market Association" (this is the name of Ng Kok Khim's association, according to the ATL quotation to Ng, so it must have been the name that Ng had given to ATL) and the result is interesting:
ReplyDeleteThe actual name of the association is "Bedok 538 Hawkers' and Merchants' Association". So, there is nothing called 538 Market Association", which is the name that Ng wrote to ATL for a quotation. So Ng was lying (ATL, please produce Ng's letter to you).
One more observation. The association was only registered on 15/02/2011, i.e. a few months before the GE. Was the setting up of the association politically motivated because they knew that the PAP was going to lose the Aljunied GRC?
Good job. The so-called Market Association, if it exists,is an illegal association.Will the Registrar of Societies investigate? What about ATL? Cand you check with ACCRA? I have a hunch that you will find it interesting.
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