Re: Balakrishnan yaks too much and exposes his sinister intention
Slyvia's reply last night is going to confirm that Vivian is suffering from his usual foot-in-mouth disease.
So, we pay millions to ministers to talk about domestic issues about hawkers?
So, the NEA CEO is no better than the CEO of MDA, who is unable to make a public appearance to defend their positions, but leave to their minnions?
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SINGAPORE: Responding to National Environment Agency (NEA), Workers' Party Chairman Sylvia Lim said the agency's assertions "fly in the face of logic" and that it is "contradicting itself".
She released an email exchange on Sunday, where a NEA officer had told the town council on 7 February that the "hawkers’ association will make the necessary arrangements with the contractor for scaffolding" to be put up and dismantled.
Ms Lim also took issue with NEA's interpretation of Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap's letter.
She said what it showed was that Mr Faisal was aware that it was not town council policy to not clean the high areas of the market nor collect additional charges from the hawkers.
On the cleaning quotation, Ms Lim said the contractor was an independent company that was free to provide quotations to any party, and it was the hawkers’ association that had requested it.
She reiterated that NEA's attribution of the quotation to the town council was misleading and politically motivated.
Ms Lim also said she welcomes NEA's release of the documents for the public to make their own judgment and that "regrettably", NEA still did not clarify whether the hawkers were asked by the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council to pay any extra charges.
In a petition to the media, the affected hawkers had said the town council and contractor told them they would not do any cleaning for high areas, but the letter did not specify that the town council had asked the hawkers to pay for it. - CNA/xq