Chiam can proceed with lift upgrading, no $80m upgrading package: Mah
NATIONAL Development Minister Mah Bow Tan has told opposition MP Chiam See Tong that he can proceed with lift upgrading plans using the funds which the Potong Pasir MP said his town had.
But Mr Mah said there was no question of an 80-million-dollar upgrading package being made available.
'The $80 million upgrading package was proposed by Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, the PAP candidate for Potong Pasir, as his plans for the constituency if he was elected the Member of Parliament,' Mr Mah said in a letter to Mr Chiam on Wednesday.
'It was on this basis that I promised to help Mr Sitoh secure the funds for the upgrading programme.
'As the majority of Potong Pasir voters rejected Mr Sitoh and his plan, the issue of funding no longer arises,' Mr Mah wrote.
Mr Mah said nevertheless, as the Government has announced, all eligible HDB blocks will have lift upgrading by 2014. And this includes eligible blocks in Potong Pasir.
Mr Chiam had written to the National Development Ministryasking for access to $80 million in funds that had reportedly been earmarked for upgrading in the constituency.
In a letter to Mr Mah last week, he referred to comments by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and media reports during the election campaign about an $80 million upgrading programme for the ward if the PAP candidate won it.
He asked Mr Mah for details which the ministry may need from him and how he could go about 'to claim the said upgrading packages which will benefit the residents of Potong Pasir'.
Another opposition MP, Hougang's Low Thia Khiang, said he would apply for a 100-million-dollar upgrading fund that residents inhis constituency had also been told about during the election.
This is damn fucked up. Eh, the people in Potong Pasir and Hougang not Singaporean si boh? They what, Dukedom of Potong Pasir and United Hougang Federation issit? Lan jiao. They pay the same amount of tax leh. GST they pay, Road Tax they pay, Parking Tax they pay, T.V tax they pay. They also PAP leh! Pay and Pay! But after they Pay and Pay you say they don't deserve this cos' their constituency don't want to PAP? Lan jiao you understand?
Hun ki price go up, simi lan jiao price go up except wages. Ni niang eh la. Now fishball noodle 4 dollars at food court only give you 2 fish ball. Knn the fish ball so small, lim beh eh ball bigger then that ball la! G.E over only for 2 months nia all this shit happen liao.
Chee bye you understand? Chee bye!
If this go on, Yew Tee won't be the kampung. Hougang and Potong Pasir will. Next time we can request Red Cross and United Nations send their rations and supplies to Hougang and Potong Pasir also. Then if Singapore is attacked, SAF won't protect Hougang and Potong Pasir and Chiam and Loh can hire Bobba Fett to fight for him liao.
The new generation of voters won't forget. Lift upgrading don't matter to most of us. But the injustice will torment us.
Your typical beng!