Shanmugam takes WP leaders to task over ‘breach of duties’
Law and Foreign Minister K Shanmugam took four Workers’ Party town councillors to task individually yesterday over whether and when they knew about four AHPETC employees’ stakes in two vendor companies, as well as why they had approved the payment mode in these transactions. Here are excerpts of what he said to each of them:
To Mr Pritam Singh:
You make fierce speeches about transparency ... You have been anything but transparent and accountable. There is a thread all right, but it weaves and leaves a tangled web.
To Mr Chen Show Mao:
As a lawyer, you will know every town councillor owes fiduciary duties. It will be a gross breach of those fiduciary duties to have allowed Loh, Ms How and Yeo to act as they did and rubber-stamped what they did. You will be aware that such conduct is unlawful ... So the question is: What did you know and when did you know?
To Ms Sylvia Lim:
You must (have) known that such conduct would be in serious breach of your legal, fiduciary duties; that it will be unlawful to do so. Yet you allowed this.
The inevitable question is: So why did you do all of this? You knew you were custodians of public monies. That is why the FMSS (FM Solutions and Services) and FMSI (FM Solutions and Integrated Services) were allowed to freely transfer public funds to themselves?
To Mr Low Thia Khiang:
Loh and Ms How were your friends. They got the contracts because they were your friends. What is your role and responsibility, Mr Low? You allowed all of this to happen? As secretary-general of the WP, will you take responsibility? What should be done now?
