Reported by Aaron Low of Straits Times on Aug 3 of 2006, six of the eight solar-powered lights have been vandalised and Mr Sitoh Yih Pin, the PAP candidate who lost in the ward in the May election, has no plans to repair or replace them.
The lights had cost $20,000 to install.
Mr Sitoh had leased the land from the Singapore Land Authority early last year to set up the lights. The adviser to Potong Pasir grassroots organisations said he would not be fixing the lights as the lease for the land would run out on Oct 31.
Earlier, he had also stopped other amenities, including the extra Meet-the-People sessions and the $2 abalone porridge.
So, that was what politics meant to us, an ordinary citizen.
In the first place, Mr Sitoh has installed the lights himself. Now the lights were damaged and he did not want to repair and pushed the full responsiblities to others.
Furthermore, he did not properly handed over to Mr Chaim, MP for Potong Pasir after the elections.
He was sore losers. If you did not vote for me, you got nothing for me..that was what he meant by his actions.
2 comments:
Since Chiam had been voted as Potong Pasir's MP again, i feel his town council should replace these faulty solar-powered lamps with convetional electric ones. Which ever solution Chiam chooses, it's going to require spending of money.
it was not fair for Mr Chiam and in the first place, it was Sitoh who installed them, and he did not hand over the necessary documents to Mr Chiam..Mr Sitoh was a big loser..
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