Wanker elders told Khan to keep on lying!!! Wankers are so fucked!!!
SINGAPORE -
Three senior Workers' Party (WP) MPs had told their party colleague Raeesah Khan to stick to the lie she had told in Parliament on Aug 3, the Committee of Privileges heard this week.
Ms Khan and two other party members said she was told by WP chief and Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh, WP chairman Sylvia Lim and WP vice-chairman Faisal Manap in an Aug 8 meeting that
there was no need for her to clarify herself or for the truth to be told.
These were among a number of revelations contained in a special report that the Committee presented to Parliament on Friday (Dec 3), and which has been made public on Parliament's website, alongside footage of the committee's hearings over the past two days.
Ms Khan, who resigned from the party and as an MP for Sengkang GRC on Tuesday, told the Committee chaired by Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin that the WP leaders told her to keep to the lie.
"If Ms Khan and the WP could get away with it, there was no need to clarify the lie. If the matter was brought up again, there would also be no need for her to clarify and there was no need for the truth to be told," the Committee said in its report.
On Aug 8, Ms Khan told her secretarial assistant Loh Pei Ying and WP volunteer Yudhishthra Nathan what had transpired at her meeting with the three party leaders.
Ms Khan had messaged: "I told them what I told you guys, and they've agreed that the best thing to do is to take the information to the grave."
Ms Khan and Ms Loh gave evidence to the committee on Thursday and Friday, while Mr Nathan did so on Friday.
Ms Khan's former legislative assistant Lim Hang Ling testified on Thursday.
The report comes a day after Mr Singh told a press conference that the party leaders had decided to give her time to deal with the matter, as she had also told them she had been a sexual assault victim herself, and had not told her family about it.
In her Aug 3 speech, Ms Khan said she had accompanied a 25-year-old rape victim to a police station to make a report, and that the officer who interviewed the victim had made inappropriate comments about the victim's dressing and the fact that she was drinking. But Ms Khan never accompanied the victim to a police station.
She later admitted that the victim had shared the account in a support group for women, which Ms Khan herself was in, and said she did not have the victim's consent to share the story.
In her evidence to the Committee,
Ms Khan also disputed statements made by Mr Singh at his press conference on Thursday (Dec 2), where among other things, Mr Singh told reporters that he had directed Ms Khan to take responsibility and admit to her lie in Parliament, and that she had contradicted this order.
She said that on Oct 3, a day before the Oct 4 Parliament sitting,
Mr Singh visited her at her home and said that if she kept to her existing narrative on the untruths which she had said on Aug 3, there would be no judgement by him.
"Ms Khan understood... that Mr Pritam Singh was advising her to continue to lie, should the matter come up the next day during the Parliamentary session.
"Mr Pritam Singh did not ask Ms Khan to clarify and state the truth in Parliament," said the Committee.
"To the contrary, Ms Khan was advised that she can continue to lie."
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