The #RidoutGate Mega-Thread!

[batman1]

The issues here are conflict of interest and insider information.

 

[ODACHEK]

PAP no such thing as conflict of interest, just look at ho ching, she can be PAP anytime.

 

[Kee Chew]

 

[batman1]

PAP no such thing as conflict of interest, just look at ho ching, she can be PAP anytime.

She is all the place in govt as if she is a minister.

 

[LexLuthor]

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So how ? Runaway BG, want to come back and hood ?

Or waiting for KJ or LT to fight the battle for you as if they were your corporals ?

 

[SinghSons]

 

[Kee Chew]

So how ? Runaway BG, want to come back and hood ?

Or waiting for KJ or LT to fight the battle for you as if they were your corporals ?

In the meantime , Brother Yang has just Double Down again about 60 mins ago :

 

[syed putra]

How come golf course land tio axed, but that huge Ridout land still happily remains available huh?

Golf course land ‘will be reduced over time’
www.todayonline.com
BY PHILIP GOH
Published November 16, 2013
Updated November 18, 2013


SINGAPORE — Members of golf clubs whose leases are running out will finally find out the fates of their clubs by early next year.
This was confirmed by Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Mr K Shanmugam, in a post on his Facebook page yesterday.
Mr Shanmugam’s post was addressing an editorial published in The Business Times on Tuesday on the need to strike a balance between the needs for golf as a sport and lifestyle choice and alternative uses for the land which the courses sit on.
While acknowledging that there is a place for golf courses in Singapore and noting that having golf facilities “makes us a better location for business investment as well”, Mr Shanmugam pointed out that land allocated to golf courses will be reduced over time because of Singapore’s land use needs.
“In the past, many golf courses were built over land which could not be developed for high intensity use. We are now able to make better use of some of these land,” he wrote.
As such, the Government’s approach is to let the leases expire if the land is needed for another purpose.
“In the coming years, some golf course land will be redeveloped, to put to higher intensity uses, to meet Singapore’s land use needs,” said the minister.
The Government had indicated last January that golf courses may have to make way for other land use such as housing, signalling a policy shift for the 18 clubs who occupy an estimated 1,500 hectares or 2 per cent of Singapore’s total land area.
Consultations have been ongoing between the Ministry of Law and the Singapore Land Authority with 13 clubs here who are on 30-year tenures.
The first leases to expire will be those for the Keppel Club and Changi Golf Club in 2021, while other with less than 10 years left on their leases include the Singapore Island Country Club, the Seletar Country Club and the Tanah Merah Country Club.
According to Mr Shanmugam, golf clubs will be told in advance whether their leases can be extended. “We plan to make an announcement early next year on our approach to lease extension for golf courses and to let clubs whose leases will expire within the next 10 years know whether their leases can be extended,” he said.
Lease doubts have not only hurt golf club membership prices with clubs reporting falls of between 2 and 15 per cent, but have also affected some clubs’ plans to redevelop their facilities.
Three months ago, Raffles Country Club members voted down a S$26-million revamp on one of the club’s two courses amid uncertainties over extension to their land tenure.
According to Peter Goh, General Manager of the Orchid Country Club, the Yishun facility that features three nine-hole courses has some 10 years left on its tenure.
“There are a lot of uncertainties about the extension of the tenure and for now we have no new information,” said Goh. “What is certain is we have our 10 years here and we’re not sure what will happen beyond that.”
However, Goh said that the club’s membership price has not seen much fluctuation and remains “in the S$39,000 to S$40,000 range”. He added that the 1,800-member club can accommodate more golfers to maximise its utilisation.

Go play golf at forest city in jb. Take a boat to get there. Jiu hu coast guard and border patrol busy in south china sea.

 

[Merl Haggard]

Lee Hsien Yang:
22nd May 2023.


Ridout Gate:

26 and 31 Ridout Road look like breaches of the Code of Conduct for Ministers and need to be investigated. Minister Shanmugam claims that he notified a senior cabinet colleague before proceeding with the rental. Did he notify the prime minister? Did the prime minister tacitly approve it?

Regardless of approval or SLA procedures, there are serious conflicts of interest. A senior minister has for years been able to rent an immense property from an agency under him. The minister appoints the chief executive of the SLA, and the SLA is his landlord.

Someone cut down many old trees, and made extensive renovations. Who authorized these actions, and who paid for them?

The Elected President was responsible for releasing the Ministerial Code of Conduct; so it is the President’s duty to intervene and scrutinize this matter. This is precisely the kind of situation that the Code of Conduct prohibited.

 

[ODACHEK]

They will play with words to shove off any questions, especially the lawyer Shan.....

 

[Merl Haggard]

2005 CODE OF CONDUCT FOR MINISTERS PAPER LAID BEFORE PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE.

"A Minister therefore must never enter into any transactions whereby his private financial interest
might, even conceivably, come into conflict with his public duty."

 

[borom]

Why no POFMA against LHY and sue him till pants drop and no reply from Halimah Yacob to these allegations?
Will also need to wait till July to debate in Parliament?

 

[laksaboy]

26 and 31 Ridout Road look like breaches of the Code of Conduct for Ministers and need to be investigated.

Investigated by who? Who investigates the investigators? Have you forgotten that Sinkieland is a totalitarian regime? PAP = mini CCP minus the Great Firewall.

 

[batman1]

If Old Fart is around ,these two ministers will not dare to stay in colonial houses bigger than Old Fart.

 

[laksaboy]

Why no POFMA against LHY and sue him till pants drop and no reply from Halimah Yacob to these allegations?
Will also need to wait till July to debate in Parliament?

POFMA only used against dissidents and wrongthinkers. I thought that should be crystal clear early when they were still 'debating' about implementing POFMA.

 

[in3deep]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...rties-vivian-balakrishnan-k-shanmugam-3508181

 

[borom]

I would have thought the AGO is the appropriate body for this
Its suppose to be an independent organ of state and the national auditor and play a role in enhancing public accountability in the management and use of public funds and resources.
The AGO report its audit observations to the President, Parliament and the public through the Annual Report of the Auditor-General.
I'm certain they can conduct ad hoc audit like for this occcasion

 

[SBFNews]

Ownself check and ownself certify no corruption. Lol
Uniquely Singapore!

 

[JohnTan]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...rties-vivian-balakrishnan-k-shanmugam-3508181

The good PM Lee has appointed a Rear Admiral cum Senior Minister to handle this rental case personally. Oppies happy now?

 

[SBFNews]

The good PM Lee has appointed a Rear Admiral cum Senior Minister to handle this rental case personally. Oppies happy now?

Nope. There should be a Committee of Inquiry headed by a Senior Supreme Court Judge.