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Late night posting by Lee Kuan Yew's daughter carries on into the second day.
Less than 24 hours after dropping the first late-night Facebook post, Lee Wei Ling has put up two new posts on June 15, at 12.19am and 1.18am respectively.
Her first shorter post, hit out against the ministerial committee convened to weigh the options for Lee Kuan Yew's 38 Oxley Road house.
It has once again been reshared by Lee Hsien Yang and his son, Li Shengwu:
The background
Lee Wei Ling and her brother Lee Hsien Yang are the joint trustees and executors of their father's will.
Before Lee Kuan Yew's passing on March 23, 2015 at the age of 91, the elder statesman stated in his will that the house is to be demolished after his passing, or after his daughter Lee Wei Ling, who still stays at the address, has moved out.
Three weeks after his father’s death, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in Parliament that he would recuse himself from any government decision made on the house and intended to fulfill his father’s wishes.
However, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong wrote to inform Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang in July 2016 that a ministerial committee had been set up to consider the options regarding the house and their implications.
This was revealed in the two siblings joint statement on Wednesday.
In response, Cabinet Secretary Tan Kee Yong confirmed that an internal ministerial committee set up by the Cabinet was considering the options for the Oxley Road house, but PM Lee has not been involved in the committee's discussions.
As reported by Reuters, Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang said that the prime minister had subsequently asserted at a special ministerial committee that Lee Kuan Yew would have accepted "any decision by the government to preserve" the house.
This was what the first post by Lee Wei Ling was pointing out.
Lee Hsien Yang had also earlier in the evening told Today in a face-to-face interview that he was “looking to move on and wake up from what feels almost like an Orwellian nightmare”.
He had also similarly spoke out against the ministerial committee being convened, when he told Today:
Why is there even a Cabinet committee when PM Lee (Hsien Loong) had announced in Parliament that so long as (younger sister) Wei Ling is living there, nothing needs to be done? Why when the Government says the government of the day will decide when Lee Wei Ling is no longer (living there) ... is the Government of today convening this Cabinet committee?
Second longer post
The second longer post, shared almost an hour after the first, clarified that the current issue is more than just the status of the Lee family house.
This was after the local mainstream media painted the issue as a family feud.
"If it were merely a family affair, we would not have taken it public", Lee Wei Ling countered in the post.
Lee Wei Ling also said she is currently on a "Scottish island holiday" and has intermittent access to the Internet.
This would explain the late-night/ early-morning postings in Singapore time.
This is her post in full:
I am out of Singapore, with erratic and slow internet connection. The article that appeared in the Singapore press gave PM's version of the story. Our letter was carefully vetted by our lawyers and obviously not in my own voice.
My American friend who is the tour leader of my Scottish island holiday thought it a family quarrel. If it were merely a family affair, we would not have taken it public. The main message is not Hsien Yang & I fearing what PM will do to us. The most important point I want to put across is if PM can misuse his official power to abuse his siblings who can fight back, what else can he do to ordinary citizens. But our lawyer edited that main message out, and as Hsien Yang got most of the bullying, he could not help but allow his emotion to be expressed in the press statement. That is what led my American friend to conclude that it is a family quarrel.
38 Oxley Road was bought by my parents, it is for them to decide what its fate is. My Father had told us, his children, repeatedly, that being family property, there is no need to donate to charity if Oxley were sold. Hsien Loong, as a condition for selling the house to Hsien Yang, and in his attempt to punish Hsien Yang for blocking what he wants to do with the house, stipulated that in addition to paying Hsien Loong the market value of the house, he must also donate 50% of that value to charity.
Hsien Loong and Ho Ching are finally showing their true colours. I think these Colours show them unsuitable as PM and most certainly as PM's wife of Singapore.
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June 15, 2017, 01:51 AM 