All facts are twisted, more of play of words to see who's a better bullshitter. Low better end this case and plead negligence on his part, admitting now he has only 2 dongs in his pants.
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Chitchat Oppie Low Admits That He Was Irresponsible! Getting Ready To Pay Back $33M To Aljunied Voters! Return Us Our Bloodsweat Money!
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Low better start leaving some instructions before he goes away haha
Byebye WP, no more MP salaries for you come next election.
You have been dishonest to voters that you will bring about First World Parliament and be the co-driver that sleeps the driver when he falls alseep. What we see is only a kiasi selfish opposition party that is just contented being PAP team B. Good for you, even PAP thinks you are only good enough to suck its toes.
You have been dishonest to voters that you will bring about First World Parliament and be the co-driver that sleeps the driver when he falls alseep. What we see is only a kiasi selfish opposition party that is just contented being PAP team B. Good for you, even PAP thinks you are only good enough to suck its toes.
all wayang, as the main aim is to throw wp under the bus. teochew low will get a plumb retirement package from the hand that feeds him. may even get a medal for being the deepest and most effective mole in sg's history.
Not just throw WP under the bus, but all the opposition parties by casting aspersions on them. Temasek now sell so much bonds, not-my-president Indian turned Malay makcik “guarding” reserves. PAP can not afford to have any loose cannon that enters parliament accidentally through any oppo party.
If Pritam Singh who once said that WP is ready to form a coalition government with PAP if the latter does not get the majority is elected to be the party chief, it says a lot. Might as well vote PAP then instead of lining the pockets of these not good enough WP members who probably won’t ever be invited to pap tea party nor has any plan to develop Singapore.
All of us can forget abt PAP developing Spore now onwards, their main concern is how to stay in power and enrich emself b4 this Island Sink.
Since 2011 ...WP had done very well. We sincerely thanks them for many policies changes. They had made Sinkieland a much better place to stay with love & compassion.
We will continue to support them
Pritam said it right in the interest of stability of such a day come to pass. It will also put pap on notice as they cannot just brush away the opposition. Pls note 70% love pap..ah Singh have no choice but to say that. But since times have changed.. WP needs to fulfill its promise of holding the pap accountable. Which it has failed. Even the supposed saviours of WP like desouza, Daniel tan, Chen just for show Mao have made no impact on debates etc. Therefore I believed WP has failed and Singkieland cannot afford another 5 years of wayang by WP. It's time for Ah Juan n ah thean n ah bock to enter the fray. That is why I hope WP lose aljunied and that will give these 3 musketeers a chance to enter parleement under NCMP scheme
Since 2011 ...WP had done very well. We sincerely thanks them for many policies changes. They had made Sinkieland a much better place to stay with love & compassion.
We will continue to support them
You are right, my brother.
Let use all our efforts and available resources in helping WP to retain Aljunied GRC next year.
Give them an increase in majority votes and that will be something very important to show those people who wanted them to lose
They can't even perform in parleement now. I doubt giving them 2 GRCs etc will matter.You are right, my brother.
Let use all our efforts and available resources in helping WP to retain Aljunied GRC next year.
Give them an increase in majority votes and that will be something very important to show those people who wanted them to lose
Sylvia Lim avoided calling for tender for new managing agent despite having time do so: Davinder Singh
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Former Aljunied-Hougang Town Council chairman Sylvia Lim admitted to breaching the Town Councils Financial Rules by not calling for a tender for managing agent services in 2011. Ariel Lim reports.
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19 Oct 2018 04:50PM (Updated: 19 Oct 2018 11:35PM)
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SINGAPORE: Former chairman of the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) Sylvia Lim “dishonestly” put in effect a plan to avoid a tender for a new managing agent, Senior Counsel Davinder Singh said on Friday (Oct 19).
On the second day that Ms Lim took the stand, Mr Singh, the lawyer representing Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council (PRPTC), posited that right from the beginning, Ms Lim had considered waiving a tender.
It is the case of Ms Lim and her fellow defendants that the waiving of the tender was necessary because of the urgency for AHTC to find a new managing agent to replace CPG Facilities Management, which was “pulling out”.
But Mr Singh charged that Ms Lim had already been thinking about waiving a tender even before May 30, 2011, when CPG stated it wanted to withdraw as managing agent.
“All of what you said suggests that you might think ‘we don’t want CPG because of their association with the People’s Action Party’. But that would only mean that if you go for someone new, you need a tender. My question is: How did you, on the 9th May, go from tender to waiver?” Mr Singh asked.
In response, Ms Lim said: “As I said Mr Singh, firstly, it’s a timing issue, and secondly, based on experiences of the past, we knew that very likely we’d better rely on ourselves and do risk mitigation.”
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Ms Lim, along with fellow MPs Low Thia Khiang and Pritam Singh, and AHTC councillors Kenneth Foo and Chua Zhi Hon, are being sued by AHTC and PRPTC for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty relating to the appointment of its former managing agent FM Solutions and Services (FMSS).
This, along with “flawed governance” of the town council and “improper” payments of more than S$33 million made mostly to FMSS, is the subject of two lawsuits that also are aimed at FMSS employees How Weng Fan and Danny Loh, who also held positions at AHTC.
According to KPMG, whose audit report forms part of the basis for the lawsuits, "the tender process for FMSS' initial appointment was waived without proper justification".
KPMG alleges that the contract AHTC signed with FMSS after this waiver was "improperly entered into", as procedures in the Town Councils Financial Rules (TCFR) were not followed.
KPMG said the managing agent fees proposed under this contract amounted to S$4.2 million per year for Aljunied, a sum "significantly greater" than the S$70,000 threshold that makes it compulsory for town councils to call for tenders under the TCFR.
According to KPMG's report, CPG could have been kept on as managing agent as there were two more years on its contract, while AHTC called for a tender for a replacement.
Mr Singh on day 11 of the trial proceeded to poke holes into the defence that there was not enough time to call for a tender. Ms Lim agreed that there was sufficient time.
“As of June, if you had decided to keep them until the end of August, you would have three months to do the tender, correct?” asked Mr Singh.
“In theory yes, but it would not be wise,” Ms Lim replied.
“My question is you would have had three months to do the tender. I’m not talking about theory. I’m talking about time needed for tender. Do you agree?”
To that, Ms Lim said: “I agree that the tender time would be about two months.”
When Mr Singh put it to Ms Lim that there was enough time to do a tender for companies to put in bids to provide managing agent services for AHTC, she agreed that there was. But this would be at the expense of “other critical works” and would jeopardise the town council’s interests, she said.
Mr Singh also asked if there was any written note that showed CPG requesting to be released from its contract, to which Ms Lim said there was none.
The trial continued in the afternoon with Ms Lim on the stand.
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Former Aljunied-Hougang Town Council chairman Sylvia Lim admitted to breaching the Town Councils Financial Rules by not calling for a tender for managing agent services in 2011. Ariel Lim reports.
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19 Oct 2018 04:50PM (Updated: 19 Oct 2018 11:35PM)
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SINGAPORE: Former chairman of the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) Sylvia Lim “dishonestly” put in effect a plan to avoid a tender for a new managing agent, Senior Counsel Davinder Singh said on Friday (Oct 19).
On the second day that Ms Lim took the stand, Mr Singh, the lawyer representing Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council (PRPTC), posited that right from the beginning, Ms Lim had considered waiving a tender.
It is the case of Ms Lim and her fellow defendants that the waiving of the tender was necessary because of the urgency for AHTC to find a new managing agent to replace CPG Facilities Management, which was “pulling out”.
But Mr Singh charged that Ms Lim had already been thinking about waiving a tender even before May 30, 2011, when CPG stated it wanted to withdraw as managing agent.
“All of what you said suggests that you might think ‘we don’t want CPG because of their association with the People’s Action Party’. But that would only mean that if you go for someone new, you need a tender. My question is: How did you, on the 9th May, go from tender to waiver?” Mr Singh asked.
In response, Ms Lim said: “As I said Mr Singh, firstly, it’s a timing issue, and secondly, based on experiences of the past, we knew that very likely we’d better rely on ourselves and do risk mitigation.”
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Ms Lim, along with fellow MPs Low Thia Khiang and Pritam Singh, and AHTC councillors Kenneth Foo and Chua Zhi Hon, are being sued by AHTC and PRPTC for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty relating to the appointment of its former managing agent FM Solutions and Services (FMSS).
This, along with “flawed governance” of the town council and “improper” payments of more than S$33 million made mostly to FMSS, is the subject of two lawsuits that also are aimed at FMSS employees How Weng Fan and Danny Loh, who also held positions at AHTC.
According to KPMG, whose audit report forms part of the basis for the lawsuits, "the tender process for FMSS' initial appointment was waived without proper justification".
KPMG alleges that the contract AHTC signed with FMSS after this waiver was "improperly entered into", as procedures in the Town Councils Financial Rules (TCFR) were not followed.
KPMG said the managing agent fees proposed under this contract amounted to S$4.2 million per year for Aljunied, a sum "significantly greater" than the S$70,000 threshold that makes it compulsory for town councils to call for tenders under the TCFR.
According to KPMG's report, CPG could have been kept on as managing agent as there were two more years on its contract, while AHTC called for a tender for a replacement.
Mr Singh on day 11 of the trial proceeded to poke holes into the defence that there was not enough time to call for a tender. Ms Lim agreed that there was sufficient time.
“As of June, if you had decided to keep them until the end of August, you would have three months to do the tender, correct?” asked Mr Singh.
“In theory yes, but it would not be wise,” Ms Lim replied.
“My question is you would have had three months to do the tender. I’m not talking about theory. I’m talking about time needed for tender. Do you agree?”
To that, Ms Lim said: “I agree that the tender time would be about two months.”
When Mr Singh put it to Ms Lim that there was enough time to do a tender for companies to put in bids to provide managing agent services for AHTC, she agreed that there was. But this would be at the expense of “other critical works” and would jeopardise the town council’s interests, she said.
Mr Singh also asked if there was any written note that showed CPG requesting to be released from its contract, to which Ms Lim said there was none.
The trial continued in the afternoon with Ms Lim on the stand.
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You are right, my brother.
Let use all our efforts and available resources in helping WP to retain Aljunied GRC next year.
Give them an increase in majority votes and that will be something very important to show those people who wanted them to lose
Bro BNB .. you are type of people who use actions to do good works rather than daily ranting, whining & yes talk is cheap.
You had proven to those malicious foreign talents by defeating them to keep your job
Yes bro ... you had showed that sinkie are no pushovers
Oppie Sylvia admits to breaking the law! Sylvia gone fuck this time!! PAP Davider scores a huge GOOOOOAL!!!!! PAP! PAP! PAP!
SINGAPORE: Former Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) chairman Sylvia Lim on Friday (Oct 19) admitted to breaching the Town Councils Financial Rules (TCFR) by not calling for a tender for managing agent services in 2011.
According to the TCFR, tenders must be called for services that are estimated to cost more than S$70,000. However, AHTC did not call a tender for managing agent services costing S$92,000, which were provided to the town council by FM Solutions and Services (FMSS) for the month of June 2011.
The rules which govern town councils allow waivers of tenders, but only in "very special circumstances" that are "fully justified", and such circumstances and justifications must be recorded.
However, there was no such discussion over the waiver of this tender, Ms Lim admitted.
The Workers' Party (WP) Member of Parliament made the admission on the witness stand while being cross-examined by Senior Counsel Davinder Singh on day 11 of the AHTC trial.
"Was there a discussion about waiver of tender? Yes or no?" asked Mr Singh, who acts for Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council (PRPTC).
"No," Ms Lim conceded.
"So being aware, as you claimed this morning, of the town council rules, you disregarded them. You breached them, right?" Mr Singh charged.
"I exercised my authority," Ms Lim replied. She had told the court earlier that the town council had delegated to her authority to exercise the powers, functions and duties in AHTC's name to better facilitate the handing over of Aljunied Town Council from the People's Action Party (PAP) to the WP, after they won the ward in the 2011 General Election.
"Answer my question please," Mr Singh repeated. "You breached them, right?"
"I waived the tender in circumstances of urgency," Ms Lim maintained.
"Ms Lim. We are now just before the 15th of June (2011). Let's take ourselves back in time. We are now on the 13th and 14th ... You've already waived, or decided no tender, and there is nothing on the record about a waiver, right?" Mr Singh pressed.
"At this point, no," Ms Lim agreed.
"So that's a breach, right? You know the rules," Mr Singh said.
"I have to agree, technically, yes," Ms Lim conceded.
"It's a breach of the rules, correct?" Mr Singh asked.
"At this point, yes," Ms Lim said.
A Jun 30, 2011 invoice for services provided by FMSS to AHTC for the month of June is listed in a report by auditor KPMG as problematic as it was unsupported by a contract.
The contract for FMSS to provide managing agent services for AHTC as a whole kicked in only on Jul 15, 2011, while its provision of services for Hougang division set in on Jun 15, 2011.
The KPMG report forms part of the basis for the two lawsuits that Ms Lim and her fellow defendants are facing.
PRPTC and AHTC are suing WP MPs Ms Lim, Low Thia Khiang and Pritam Singh, along with others, for breaches of fiduciary duties in the appointment of FMSS and some S$33 million in “improper payments” made by the town council, mostly to FMSS.
Mr Singh also took aim at a provision AHTC gave to FMSS when it appointed it as managing agent with effect from Jul 15, 2011 - this provision allowed FMSS to “engage new staff as necessary for the preparation of handing and taking over and shall claim such staff costs on a full reimbursement basis”.
This was akin to handing FMSS a blank cheque to hire as many employees as they wanted, at the expense of residents, Mr Singh charged.
Ms Lim disagreed.
"Would you, by way of analogy, tell your gardener: Go ahead and hire as many as you like and I’ll pay. Would you?" Mr Singh asked.
Chuckling, Ms Lim said: "I am not sure about the gardening."
Mr Singh pressed, but Ms Lim said the gardening analogy was not applicable and did not agree with it. She said the allowance for FMSS to hire was limited to a period of time, but Mr Singh said in that time FMSS could have hired as many as they liked.
He persisted: “Would you tell your gardener - who tells you that he needs manpower to help him do your garden - please, I give you one month, go and hire as many as you like and I will pay, but you don’t have to check with me, you don’t have to come back with me on experience, how much they cost ... go forth and hire. Would you?”
“No,” Ms Lim replied.
Mr Singh asked her why she said no to the gardening analogy but yes to FMSS when they asked for "carte blanche" to hire new staff.
He then suggested to her: “Ms Lim, the difference is that the first example of the garden is your money. The second, AHTC, is not your money. It’s other people’s money. Which is why you so readily agreed to give carte blanche, hire as many as you like, for this period, not to worry, the residents will pay for it.”
“I disagree with you,” Ms Lim answered.
READ: Low Thia Khiang ‘directed’ FMSS before it was appointed managing agent, says lawyer
Mr Singh also charged that Ms Lim withheld the FMSS' proposal to provide managing agent services from her fellow town councillors until she received the delegation of authority to act on behalf of the town council.
"You got delegation of authority on the basis of concealed matters. You got them to delegate authority to you in relation to a proposal without coming clean to them on that proposal," Mr Singh charged. "You did a dirty on your own town council."
“I disagree, Mr Singh, I disagree totally,” Ms Lim replied.
She explained that she had told only her fellow elected MPs at first as they were "answerable to voters", and "later on the (town) councillors would be told".
He went on to say that the reason she and her elected MPs did it was that they were “all aware that this was a dodgy deal”.
“No tender, no basis to waive, passing the profit to a new company helping WP supporters, all with the residents’ monies," Mr Singh charged.
“I reject that entirely," Ms Lim replied.
IMPRESSION GIVEN TO CPG THAT 'NOTHING HAD CHANGED' AFTER FMSS APPOINTED
To prove that Ms Lim was concealing information from CPG Facilities Management, Mr Singh zoomed into the June invoice for the provision of management agent services to AHTC.
CPG, Aljunied Town Council’s managing agent - which was on contract to provide services at the time - did not know that FMSS had been appointed as managing agent.
The document was signed off by employees of FMSS, including Ms How Weng Fan, who held dual roles as AHTC’s deputy secretary and shareholder of FMSS.
She had signed off as general manager, a role she held previously at Hougang Town Council (HTC).
Ms How was moved out of HTC to FMSS, but the appearance that was given to CPG was that nothing had changed, Mr Singh said.
Mr Singh alleged this was done to hide the fact that "no tender was done or was going to be done".
Ms Lim's explanation was that an old chop was used on the invoice.
“There’s nothing sinister about it, Mr Singh," she said.
"This entire arrangement was done to also not disclose to CPG the fact that while you had been talking about doing this in-house, you had actually entered into a managing agent contract," Mr Singh charged.
Ms Lim disputed this.
The trial continues on Monday with Ms Lim on the stand.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-breach-town-council-financial-rules-10845356
SINGAPORE: Former Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) chairman Sylvia Lim on Friday (Oct 19) admitted to breaching the Town Councils Financial Rules (TCFR) by not calling for a tender for managing agent services in 2011.
According to the TCFR, tenders must be called for services that are estimated to cost more than S$70,000. However, AHTC did not call a tender for managing agent services costing S$92,000, which were provided to the town council by FM Solutions and Services (FMSS) for the month of June 2011.
The rules which govern town councils allow waivers of tenders, but only in "very special circumstances" that are "fully justified", and such circumstances and justifications must be recorded.
However, there was no such discussion over the waiver of this tender, Ms Lim admitted.
The Workers' Party (WP) Member of Parliament made the admission on the witness stand while being cross-examined by Senior Counsel Davinder Singh on day 11 of the AHTC trial.
"Was there a discussion about waiver of tender? Yes or no?" asked Mr Singh, who acts for Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council (PRPTC).
"No," Ms Lim conceded.
"So being aware, as you claimed this morning, of the town council rules, you disregarded them. You breached them, right?" Mr Singh charged.
"I exercised my authority," Ms Lim replied. She had told the court earlier that the town council had delegated to her authority to exercise the powers, functions and duties in AHTC's name to better facilitate the handing over of Aljunied Town Council from the People's Action Party (PAP) to the WP, after they won the ward in the 2011 General Election.
"Answer my question please," Mr Singh repeated. "You breached them, right?"
"I waived the tender in circumstances of urgency," Ms Lim maintained.
"Ms Lim. We are now just before the 15th of June (2011). Let's take ourselves back in time. We are now on the 13th and 14th ... You've already waived, or decided no tender, and there is nothing on the record about a waiver, right?" Mr Singh pressed.
"At this point, no," Ms Lim agreed.
"So that's a breach, right? You know the rules," Mr Singh said.
"I have to agree, technically, yes," Ms Lim conceded.
"It's a breach of the rules, correct?" Mr Singh asked.
"At this point, yes," Ms Lim said.
A Jun 30, 2011 invoice for services provided by FMSS to AHTC for the month of June is listed in a report by auditor KPMG as problematic as it was unsupported by a contract.
The contract for FMSS to provide managing agent services for AHTC as a whole kicked in only on Jul 15, 2011, while its provision of services for Hougang division set in on Jun 15, 2011.
The KPMG report forms part of the basis for the two lawsuits that Ms Lim and her fellow defendants are facing.
PRPTC and AHTC are suing WP MPs Ms Lim, Low Thia Khiang and Pritam Singh, along with others, for breaches of fiduciary duties in the appointment of FMSS and some S$33 million in “improper payments” made by the town council, mostly to FMSS.
Mr Singh also took aim at a provision AHTC gave to FMSS when it appointed it as managing agent with effect from Jul 15, 2011 - this provision allowed FMSS to “engage new staff as necessary for the preparation of handing and taking over and shall claim such staff costs on a full reimbursement basis”.
This was akin to handing FMSS a blank cheque to hire as many employees as they wanted, at the expense of residents, Mr Singh charged.
Ms Lim disagreed.
"Would you, by way of analogy, tell your gardener: Go ahead and hire as many as you like and I’ll pay. Would you?" Mr Singh asked.
Chuckling, Ms Lim said: "I am not sure about the gardening."
Mr Singh pressed, but Ms Lim said the gardening analogy was not applicable and did not agree with it. She said the allowance for FMSS to hire was limited to a period of time, but Mr Singh said in that time FMSS could have hired as many as they liked.
He persisted: “Would you tell your gardener - who tells you that he needs manpower to help him do your garden - please, I give you one month, go and hire as many as you like and I will pay, but you don’t have to check with me, you don’t have to come back with me on experience, how much they cost ... go forth and hire. Would you?”
“No,” Ms Lim replied.
Mr Singh asked her why she said no to the gardening analogy but yes to FMSS when they asked for "carte blanche" to hire new staff.
He then suggested to her: “Ms Lim, the difference is that the first example of the garden is your money. The second, AHTC, is not your money. It’s other people’s money. Which is why you so readily agreed to give carte blanche, hire as many as you like, for this period, not to worry, the residents will pay for it.”
“I disagree with you,” Ms Lim answered.
READ: Low Thia Khiang ‘directed’ FMSS before it was appointed managing agent, says lawyer
Mr Singh also charged that Ms Lim withheld the FMSS' proposal to provide managing agent services from her fellow town councillors until she received the delegation of authority to act on behalf of the town council.
"You got delegation of authority on the basis of concealed matters. You got them to delegate authority to you in relation to a proposal without coming clean to them on that proposal," Mr Singh charged. "You did a dirty on your own town council."
“I disagree, Mr Singh, I disagree totally,” Ms Lim replied.
She explained that she had told only her fellow elected MPs at first as they were "answerable to voters", and "later on the (town) councillors would be told".
He went on to say that the reason she and her elected MPs did it was that they were “all aware that this was a dodgy deal”.
“No tender, no basis to waive, passing the profit to a new company helping WP supporters, all with the residents’ monies," Mr Singh charged.
“I reject that entirely," Ms Lim replied.
IMPRESSION GIVEN TO CPG THAT 'NOTHING HAD CHANGED' AFTER FMSS APPOINTED
To prove that Ms Lim was concealing information from CPG Facilities Management, Mr Singh zoomed into the June invoice for the provision of management agent services to AHTC.
CPG, Aljunied Town Council’s managing agent - which was on contract to provide services at the time - did not know that FMSS had been appointed as managing agent.
The document was signed off by employees of FMSS, including Ms How Weng Fan, who held dual roles as AHTC’s deputy secretary and shareholder of FMSS.
She had signed off as general manager, a role she held previously at Hougang Town Council (HTC).
Ms How was moved out of HTC to FMSS, but the appearance that was given to CPG was that nothing had changed, Mr Singh said.
Mr Singh alleged this was done to hide the fact that "no tender was done or was going to be done".
Ms Lim's explanation was that an old chop was used on the invoice.
“There’s nothing sinister about it, Mr Singh," she said.
"This entire arrangement was done to also not disclose to CPG the fact that while you had been talking about doing this in-house, you had actually entered into a managing agent contract," Mr Singh charged.
Ms Lim disputed this.
The trial continues on Monday with Ms Lim on the stand.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-breach-town-council-financial-rules-10845356
Sillyvia better carry up both hands and admit negligence on her part...end of case. No match for Bayi Singh.
In their culture to carry balls and lie without any shame or guilt.
KNN ms lim never ask my singh is gambling with peoples money and gambling with own money will make people make easier decision KNN or ask people eat sai and ownself eat skark fin is it acceptable KNNOppie Sylvia admits to breaking the law! Sylvia gone fuck this time!! PAP Davider scores a huge GOOOOOAL!!!!! PAP! PAP! PAP!
SINGAPORE: Former Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) chairman Sylvia Lim on Friday (Oct 19) admitted to breaching the Town Councils Financial Rules (TCFR) by not calling for a tender for managing agent services in 2011.
According to the TCFR, tenders must be called for services that are estimated to cost more than S$70,000. However, AHTC did not call a tender for managing agent services costing S$92,000, which were provided to the town council by FM Solutions and Services (FMSS) for the month of June 2011.
The rules which govern town councils allow waivers of tenders, but only in "very special circumstances" that are "fully justified", and such circumstances and justifications must be recorded.
However, there was no such discussion over the waiver of this tender, Ms Lim admitted.
The Workers' Party (WP) Member of Parliament made the admission on the witness stand while being cross-examined by Senior Counsel Davinder Singh on day 11 of the AHTC trial.
"Was there a discussion about waiver of tender? Yes or no?" asked Mr Singh, who acts for Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council (PRPTC).
"No," Ms Lim conceded.
"So being aware, as you claimed this morning, of the town council rules, you disregarded them. You breached them, right?" Mr Singh charged.
"I exercised my authority," Ms Lim replied. She had told the court earlier that the town council had delegated to her authority to exercise the powers, functions and duties in AHTC's name to better facilitate the handing over of Aljunied Town Council from the People's Action Party (PAP) to the WP, after they won the ward in the 2011 General Election.
"Answer my question please," Mr Singh repeated. "You breached them, right?"
"I waived the tender in circumstances of urgency," Ms Lim maintained.
"Ms Lim. We are now just before the 15th of June (2011). Let's take ourselves back in time. We are now on the 13th and 14th ... You've already waived, or decided no tender, and there is nothing on the record about a waiver, right?" Mr Singh pressed.
"At this point, no," Ms Lim agreed.
"So that's a breach, right? You know the rules," Mr Singh said.
"I have to agree, technically, yes," Ms Lim conceded.
"It's a breach of the rules, correct?" Mr Singh asked.
"At this point, yes," Ms Lim said.
A Jun 30, 2011 invoice for services provided by FMSS to AHTC for the month of June is listed in a report by auditor KPMG as problematic as it was unsupported by a contract.
The contract for FMSS to provide managing agent services for AHTC as a whole kicked in only on Jul 15, 2011, while its provision of services for Hougang division set in on Jun 15, 2011.
The KPMG report forms part of the basis for the two lawsuits that Ms Lim and her fellow defendants are facing.
PRPTC and AHTC are suing WP MPs Ms Lim, Low Thia Khiang and Pritam Singh, along with others, for breaches of fiduciary duties in the appointment of FMSS and some S$33 million in “improper payments” made by the town council, mostly to FMSS.
Mr Singh also took aim at a provision AHTC gave to FMSS when it appointed it as managing agent with effect from Jul 15, 2011 - this provision allowed FMSS to “engage new staff as necessary for the preparation of handing and taking over and shall claim such staff costs on a full reimbursement basis”.
This was akin to handing FMSS a blank cheque to hire as many employees as they wanted, at the expense of residents, Mr Singh charged.
Ms Lim disagreed.
"Would you, by way of analogy, tell your gardener: Go ahead and hire as many as you like and I’ll pay. Would you?" Mr Singh asked.
Chuckling, Ms Lim said: "I am not sure about the gardening."
Mr Singh pressed, but Ms Lim said the gardening analogy was not applicable and did not agree with it. She said the allowance for FMSS to hire was limited to a period of time, but Mr Singh said in that time FMSS could have hired as many as they liked.
He persisted: “Would you tell your gardener - who tells you that he needs manpower to help him do your garden - please, I give you one month, go and hire as many as you like and I will pay, but you don’t have to check with me, you don’t have to come back with me on experience, how much they cost ... go forth and hire. Would you?”
“No,” Ms Lim replied.
Mr Singh asked her why she said no to the gardening analogy but yes to FMSS when they asked for "carte blanche" to hire new staff.
He then suggested to her: “Ms Lim, the difference is that the first example of the garden is your money. The second, AHTC, is not your money. It’s other people’s money. Which is why you so readily agreed to give carte blanche, hire as many as you like, for this period, not to worry, the residents will pay for it.”
“I disagree with you,” Ms Lim answered.
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Mr Singh also charged that Ms Lim withheld the FMSS' proposal to provide managing agent services from her fellow town councillors until she received the delegation of authority to act on behalf of the town council.
"You got delegation of authority on the basis of concealed matters. You got them to delegate authority to you in relation to a proposal without coming clean to them on that proposal," Mr Singh charged. "You did a dirty on your own town council."
“I disagree, Mr Singh, I disagree totally,” Ms Lim replied.
She explained that she had told only her fellow elected MPs at first as they were "answerable to voters", and "later on the (town) councillors would be told".
He went on to say that the reason she and her elected MPs did it was that they were “all aware that this was a dodgy deal”.
“No tender, no basis to waive, passing the profit to a new company helping WP supporters, all with the residents’ monies," Mr Singh charged.
“I reject that entirely," Ms Lim replied.
IMPRESSION GIVEN TO CPG THAT 'NOTHING HAD CHANGED' AFTER FMSS APPOINTED
To prove that Ms Lim was concealing information from CPG Facilities Management, Mr Singh zoomed into the June invoice for the provision of management agent services to AHTC.
CPG, Aljunied Town Council’s managing agent - which was on contract to provide services at the time - did not know that FMSS had been appointed as managing agent.
The document was signed off by employees of FMSS, including Ms How Weng Fan, who held dual roles as AHTC’s deputy secretary and shareholder of FMSS.
She had signed off as general manager, a role she held previously at Hougang Town Council (HTC).
Ms How was moved out of HTC to FMSS, but the appearance that was given to CPG was that nothing had changed, Mr Singh said.
Mr Singh alleged this was done to hide the fact that "no tender was done or was going to be done".
Ms Lim's explanation was that an old chop was used on the invoice.
“There’s nothing sinister about it, Mr Singh," she said.
"This entire arrangement was done to also not disclose to CPG the fact that while you had been talking about doing this in-house, you had actually entered into a managing agent contract," Mr Singh charged.
Ms Lim disputed this.
The trial continues on Monday with Ms Lim on the stand.
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Why does Saliva Lim speak like a person without common sense, much less a former law professor?!
Refer to post #10. Erection may be next year, time to make oppos look useless and stupid.
A question to the experts here. When WP lose this court case n the 3 MPs are thrown into jail. Will there be a by-erection called? If a by erection is called WP will have another platform to voice their grievances..n so near the next GE might backfire on the pap. But looking at how weak WP is defending itself in court. I really wonder wat WP is up too. If they perform half as well in court as in parleement..maybe I will sympathise more with WP
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