Is This The Main Reason why Low Rank Civil Servants Can Afford to buy Red Plate Car

[gingerlyn]

Dear brothers and sisters

Is this the main Reason why Low rank civil servants can affort to buy red plate car?

Ex-ICA specialist jailed four months for corruption - See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/si...nths-corruption-20140509#sthash.tBBJUZO8.dpuf

A former Immigration and Checkpoints Authority specialist was jailed for four months on Friday for corruptly accepting $50 to grant social visit passes to two foreigners. Ezhar Kamis, 25, unemployed, was ordered to pay a penalty of $50, which he had accepted from a colleague, Mohammed Mustaffa Mohabat Ali, 29, to grant the visit passes on March 1, 2011. He pleaded guilty and is the last ICA officer to be dealt with. Three of his colleagues had earlier been given similar sentences for corruption. Investigation showed that in 2010, Mustaffa came to know a Filipina at a pub and agreed to help her "extend'' her social visit pass in return for a fee. Since then he had been helping foreigners to do "U-turn'' for a fee. - See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/si...nths-corruption-20140509#sthash.tBBJUZO8.dpuf

 

[blindswordsman]

Re: Is This The Main Reason why Low Rank Civil Servants Can Afford to buy Red Plate C

...A former Immigration and Checkpoints Authority specialist was jailed for four months on Friday for corruptly accepting $50 to grant social visit passes to two foreigners. Ezhar Kamis, 25, unemployed, was ordered to pay a penalty of $50, which he had accepted from a colleague, Mohammed Mustaffa Mohabat Ali, 29, to grant the visit passes on March 1, 2011. He pleaded guilty and is the last ICA officer to be dealt with. Three of his colleagues had earlier been given similar sentences for corruption. Investigation showed that in 2010, Mustaffa came to know a Filipina at a pub and agreed to help her "extend'' her social visit pass in return for a fee. Since then he had been helping foreigners to do "U-turn'' for a fee...

Helping foreigners to extend visit passes illegally is an old game at ICA for years but nothing is done to eradicate such malpractices. Why are lowly officers given the authority to extend the visit passes? Maybe these lowly officers are PR, foreigners who do not care a hoot about compromising the security of SG.

 

[laksaboy]

Re: Is This The Main Reason why Low Rank Civil Servants Can Afford to buy Red Plate C

Helping foreigners to extend visit passes illegally is an old game at ICA for years but nothing is done to eradicate such malpractices. Why are lowly officers given the authority to extend the visit passes? Maybe these lowly officers are PR, foreigners who do not care a hoot about compromising the security of SG.

Or maybe the officers were ordered by the powers that be 'up there' to extend the visit passes.

How else to hasten the road to 6.9 million population?