Time for Teochew Low to come clean and reveal why Mrs Yzelman was sacked? Was she not "Danny Loh" enough for him?
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Hougang Town Council sacks general manager
147th Prostitute Press
31 October 1993
The opposition-led Hougang Town Council has sacked its general manager, apparently over differences in the way the council was run.
A teary-eyed Mrs Virginia Yzelman, 42, who was also the council secretary, packed her things and left her office yesterday.
The decision to sack her was made at a council meeting on Friday night, attended by 10 members, including its chairman, Workers' Party Member of Parliament Low Thia Khiang.
Neither Mr Low nor Mrs Yzelman would reveal the reasons for the sacking.
But sources told The Sunday Times that there had been differences over the award of contracts for certain projects and the way the town council was managed.
Mrs Yzelman, a former civil servant, joined the Hougang Town Council in 1991 after Mr Low won the Hougang seat in the general election.
Her husband, Mr Herman Yzelman, 42, said yesterday that he and his wife, both Workers' Party members, would consult a lawyer before deciding what action to take next.
Mr Low confirmed yesterday that the council's 10 members had decided unanimously to sack Mrs Yzelman, but refused to give reasons.
When approached outside his town council office at Hougang Avenue 2, he would only say that the council had appointed its finance manager, Mr Koh Chong Hai, as the new secretary and general manager.
Mr Yzelman, a member of the Workers' Party Executive Council, said that when his wife learnt that she might lose her job, she sought the help of Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam, the WP secretary-general and adviser to the Hougang Town Council.
It is understood that Mr Jeyaretnam called an executive council meeting on Thursday night to hold an inquiry into the reasons for the move to sack her.
But there was no quorum because only he and three others turned up at the WP headquarters in Jalan Besar, where the meeting was to be held. Mr Low did not show up.
Mr Low said yesterday that he was in Johor that day, and did not see Mr Jeyaretnam's message asking him to attend the meeting until Friday.