To allay unnecessary anxiety caused to hawkers and the public due to the media reports, we enclose as Annex A, the tentative schedules for annual cleaning of the five hawker centres within our jurisdiction. At these annual cleanings, the Town Council will bear all cost related to cleaning the high areas, including all necessary scaffolding and canvas costs. This is in keeping with our obligation to clean the high areas annually, as confirmed by NEA’s Advisory of 31 May 2013.
Let's see if the NEA and the PAP insurgents in the CCC and 'hawkers association' will stir up more troubles. WP should go to the hawkers and explain. They must not let the PAP insurgents and NEA sour their reputation. It is time to go on the offensive. If the CCC and mysterious hawker association fire back with their leaflets, we should humtum government for using our tax dollars to further the PAP political activities.
By way of email dated 7 Feb 2013, NEA informed the Town Council that “the Hawkers’ Association will make the necessary arrangements with their contractors on the scaffolding erection / dismantling during the spring cleaning period from 4-8 March 2013.”
Is the NEA going to deny this? Don't obfuscate this time, just come out with a YES or NO.
NEA doubted whether cleaning of the high areas was done in 2012 at the market at Blk 538. From our records, the high areas were cleaned as can be seen from the attached photographs in Annex B taken in March 2012.
Opposition-run wards are given special attention by NEA, why? Government using civil servants to do their dirty work of harassing the opposition. Damn them.
The TC’s position regarding the cleaning of Blk 538 above would also apply to Blk 511. Our property manager merely sought confirmation whether NEA would facilitate the same arrangement regarding the scaffolding as was done for Blk 538.
NEA is totally confused about its role. It once to butt in on one instance and another instance, it wants to butt out.
The NEA CEO is trying to score cookie points with LHL?
Mr Andrew Tan, CEO of NEA
Mr Andrew Tan, 41, began his career with the Singapore Administrative Service in the Ministry of Information and the Arts. He was subsequently posted to the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) where he held appointments as Head (Control of Manpower Department), Deputy Director (Defence Relations)and Director (Policy Office). He was appointed Principal Private Secretary to Senior Minister (and later Minister Mentor) Lee Kuan Yew from 2002 to 2004. He also held senior appointments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Secretary (Policy), and later, Deputy Secretary (International).
Mr Tan is also the Director, Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) in the Ministry of National Development.
Mr Tan graduated from King's College, University of London with a First Class Honours Degree in History and holds a Masters in Public Administration
We believe it is prudent for our Town Council to deal with NEA as the lead agency, rather than other bodies such as the hawkers’ association and the Citizens’ Consultative Committee under the People’s Association, on the cleaning of markets and hawker centres, to resolve any issues without complicating the matter further. We trust the NEA would not want to see a repetition of such episodes and strongly urge the NEA to play a constructive role in this matter, even though the political party entrusted with running AHPETC is not related to the government. The AHPETC is committed to fulfilling all its obligations. We hope the NEA will adopt a solution-focused approach to the matter. AHPETC looks forward to the meeting with NEA on 6 June 2013.
And the NEA will come out with complete denial. NEA CEO is now malu ...and whacking some of his people for messing up on this. They thought they check-mated WP TC (as claimed by Harban Goh Meng Seng), looks like it is the other way around.
Damn, Opposition MPs must always be on top of their game ...keep every tiny little communications with the government and scrutinize every t and i.
Some way must be found to make the civil service politically neutral or else, 90 percent of resources of opposition MPs will be spent dealing with the damn governmental agencies.
