In his speech at a National Day dinner held in Hougang, SM Goh urges Hougang residents to “study the annual accounts of the town council to ensure that the funds are properly used”.
Is he insinuating that opposition town councils are prone to misgovernance? What about PAP town councils? Since the ruling party runs the majority of town councils in Singapore, wouldn’t it be more effective to keep checks on their town councils instead?
Furthermore, unlike opposition town councils, these town councils have vast amounts of funds ($1 billion in total, according to TOC) in their kitties so all the more they should be monitored closely to ensure nothing goes wrong. It is also a fact that not every man on the street agrees with their ways of handling those funds (i.e. recall Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council’s investment in the poorly performing Creative Technology shares?).
It’s unfair to the opposition that their integrity is being doubted by default, and people are being encouraged to cast doubts on them although there isn’t any concrete evidence of misgovernance to date in both Hougang and Potong Pasir.
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