Is PAP going to use the auditor's report to take over the Opposition wards?

[winnipegjets]

A lengthy rebuttal from the WP TC. The PAP government ignores all the inconsistencies cited and then launch this short volley.

I would like to hear from the MND how they goofed up big time ...hurling defamatory allegations at the WP TC before investigating the claims made in the auditor's report.

How much taxpayer's dollars have been spent on attacking the WP TC? The WP TC should detail how much resources is spent rebutting the MND and bill the MND for this unnecessary waste of WP TC resources.

Why don't the MND put up ALL auditor reports of Town Councils online for sinkees to read and come to their own conclusion?

Here is the full response from the MND:

The AHPETC auditor expressed a disclaimer of opinion on the TC's FY2012 financial statements. This is more severe than a qualified opinion.

In making the disclaimer, the Auditors raised 13 issues of concern.

Of these 13 issues, 4 of them are related to issues the auditor had raised the year before (FY 2011). The TC had assured MND then (15 August 2013) that "most have been rectified, with a few still in progress". The auditor's latest report however showed this not to be the case.

Nine new issues of concern were raised by the auditor for this FY 2012 (viz points 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 in the auditor's Basis for Disclaimer of Opinion). These include for instance:

a)the TC did not transfer funds into its Sinking Funds as required under Rule 4(2B)(a) of the Town Councils Financial Rules;

b) the TC did not make available information to the auditors details of project management service fees paid to a related party;

c) the TC did not make available to the auditors its latest management accounts and records of minutes subsequent to the financial year end, to allow the auditors to ascertain if the TC's financial statements properly reflected any required adjustments or disclosures made.

Such failures are not related to handover issues.

 

[winnipegjets]

The expectation is the government will use the auditor's report as an excuse to have some 'grassroot' entity take over the management of the town council from the WP.

Or the government is setting the stage for ending the town council concept as it is hurting the PAP's political domination.

 

[Leongsam]

I certainly hope the government steps in to find out what the WP is up to. It would be disastrous to leave a GRC in the hands of an incompetent bunch of 3rd rate politicians without overseeing what they are up to on a regular basis.

I hope the PAP wins the ward back in the next election before the WP can inflict irreversible damage on the finances and the infrastructure.

 

[steffychun]

I certainly hope the government steps in to find out what the WP is up to. It would be disastrous to leave a GRC in the hands of an incompetent bunch of 3rd rate politicians without overseeing what they are up to on a regular basis.

I hope the PAP wins the ward back in the next election before the WP can inflict irreversible damage on the finances and the infrastructure.

yes and make it even worse with CCS face splattered everywhere.

 

[winnipegjets]

I certainly hope the government steps in to find out what the WP is up to. It would be disastrous to leave a GRC in the hands of an incompetent bunch of 3rd rate politicians without overseeing what they are up to on a regular basis.

I hope the PAP wins the ward back in the next election before the WP can inflict irreversible damage on the finances and the infrastructure.

The PAP needs you to contest there ...you, Kong Hee, Sun Ho and Kee Chiu will make an unbeatable team there.

 

[eatshitndie]

The PAP needs you to contest there ...you, Kong Hee, Sun Ho and Kee Chiu will make an unbeatable team there.

the elite team of pro-pap mercenaries comprising sam, overthecounter, swingstar and i will have to step in if this bunch of oppo shenanigans continue to wreak havoc to sound fiscal jurisprudence.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

In Thailand they got military coup and judiciary coup.....
Pap come up with auditor coup....

 

[ZorrorroZ]

It's amazing... PAP uses an a PAP auditor to find fault with an opposition town council.

I think nowhere else in the world does a government operate using blatant cronyism, nepotism and conflict of interest with such impunity as thus in Singapore; and what's even more amazing is that the voters are so blind to their rights that they allow this transgression to continue year after year, election after election, decade after decade.

 

[Leongsam]

It's amazing... PAP uses an a PAP auditor to find fault with an opposition town council.

I think nowhere else in the world does a government operate using blatant cronyism, nepotism and conflict of interest with such impunity as thus in Singapore; and what's even more amazing is that the voters are so blind to their rights that they allow this transgression to continue year after year, election after election, decade after decade.

When something dodgy is going on, it is the government's responsibility to get to the truth of the matter.

 

[eErotica69]

The PAP needs you to contest there ...you, Kong Hee, Sun Ho and Kee Chiu will make an unbeatable team there.

Kong Hee can meh?

Praise the Lord.

 

[escher]

When something dodgy is going on, it is the government's responsibility to get to the truth of the matter.

The fucking PAP regime will get what they want to get to by hook or by crook.

FUCKING PAP REGIME STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN AND STINKS EVEN MORE THAN THE METAL BUCKET USED BY 50 BANGLA FAMILIES TO SHIT INTO AND WHERE LEONGSAM SHOULD STICK HIS HEAD UNDER THAT LIQUID LINE

 

[Cerebral]

I think what is interesting is about the unaccounted 1.2mn from George Yeo's term

 

[songsongjurong]

Pap is afraid of failure again in hougang~aljunied GRC and stirring things up. Just another distraction aim at public at large while something more sinister at works.

 

[winnipegjets]

When something dodgy is going on, it is the government's responsibility to get to the truth of the matter.

Who investigates the dodgy dealings going on in the government, Temasek, GIC? Hundreds of billions lost ...no answers. National security is the lame excuse given.

 

[escher]

I certainly hope the government steps in to find out what the WP is up to. It would be disastrous to leave a GRC in the hands of an incompetent bunch of 3rd rate politicians without overseeing what they are up to on a regular basis.

I hope the PAP wins the ward back in the next election before the WP can inflict irreversible damage on the finances and the infrastructure.

Best to leave GRC in the hands of PAP who are experienced in telling lies and stealing hundreds of billions from all of us before and even more now and the future.

THE GREED OF PAP MUST BE FED THE WAY 120 STARVING DOGS AND BITCHES TO BE FED.

 

[johnny333]

When something dodgy is going on, it is the government's responsibility to get to the truth of the matter.

If Spore was a democracy that would be true, but Spore is a family run bizniss.

No one outside of the owners know how much $$$ money there is & control how it is spent. Years ago the prez asked about Singapore's reserves & today many Sporean's are still asking that same question.

 

[Satyr]

When something dodgy is going on, it is the government's responsibility to get to the truth of the matter.

And after that, let's see an audit of the GIC and Temasek. The Aljunied TC is small beer.

 

[Satyr]

A lengthy rebuttal from the WP TC. The PAP government ignores all the inconsistencies cited and then launch this short volley.

I would like to hear from the MND how they goofed up big time ...hurling defamatory allegations at the WP TC before investigating the claims made in the auditor's report.

How much taxpayer's dollars have been spent on attacking the WP TC? The WP TC should detail how much resources is spent rebutting the MND and bill the MND for this unnecessary waste of WP TC resources.

Why don't the MND put up ALL auditor reports of Town Councils online for sinkees to read and come to their own conclusion?

Here is the full response from the MND:

The AHPETC auditor expressed a disclaimer of opinion on the TC's FY2012 financial statements. This is more severe than a qualified opinion.

In making the disclaimer, the Auditors raised 13 issues of concern.

Of these 13 issues, 4 of them are related to issues the auditor had raised the year before (FY 2011). The TC had assured MND then (15 August 2013) that "most have been rectified, with a few still in progress". The auditor's latest report however showed this not to be the case.

Nine new issues of concern were raised by the auditor for this FY 2012 (viz points 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 in the auditor's Basis for Disclaimer of Opinion). These include for instance:

a)the TC did not transfer funds into its Sinking Funds as required under Rule 4(2B)(a) of the Town Councils Financial Rules;

b) the TC did not make available information to the auditors details of project management service fees paid to a related party;

c) the TC did not make available to the auditors its latest management accounts and records of minutes subsequent to the financial year end, to allow the auditors to ascertain if the TC's financial statements properly reflected any required adjustments or disclosures made.

Such failures are not related to handover issues.

(a) TC has explained and rectified
(b) TC has explained.
(c) So ? Any wrongdoing ?

Has MND queried the many millions lost in the minibond affair by PAP TCs. The sale of important operating software to a $2 company. Nobody involved in that can be consider sound. Not even a wrist slap.