PM Lee made ‘no attempt’ to resolve Oxley Road dispute privately: Lee Hsien Yang
PM Lee Hsien Loong (left), Dr Lee Wei Ling and Mr Lee Hsien Yang. TODAY file photos
SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has made “no attempt” to resolve the Oxley Road dispute privately with his younger siblings, his brother Mr Lee Hsien Yang said on Friday (Oct 20).
PM Lee said in an interview with CNBC that was posted online on Friday that the Lee siblings’ public spat over their 38 Oxley Road family home was in “abeyance”.
“I am not sure that it is solved,” he told the business news outlet, adding that he had not recently communicated with his siblings, Mr Lee and Dr Lee Wei Ling.
Mr Lee responded in a Facebook post hours later on Friday, writing: “Our brother says he is unsure that the feud is solved. Notwithstanding his public statements, Hsien Loong has made no attempt to reach out to us to resolve matters in private.”
The feud over their family home became public on June 14 when Mr Lee and his sister, Dr Lee, posted a six-page statement to their Facebook accounts, alleging that that the PM was misusing his authority to prevent the demolition of their father and founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s Oxley Road house.
PM Lee denied the allegations in a two-day parliamentary debate in July, where he took Members of Parliament through the events that led up to the dispute erupting in public.
In his Facebook post on Friday, Mr Lee Hsien Yang also made reference to the ongoing legal proceedings against his son, Harvard academic Mr Li Shengwu, saying “the Attorney General is busy prosecuting Hsien Loong’s nephew for his private correspondence”.
In August, the High Court gave the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) the green light to launch contempt of court proceedings against Mr Li, after he had allegedly criticised the Republic’s court system in a private Facebook post.
In the post, the academic had shared a Wall Street Journal article on the Oxley Road dispute, and wrote that the Singapore Government was “litigious” and has a “pliant court system”.
