Kaki Bukit grassroots find fault with AHPTEC again

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May 11th, 2014 |

Author: Editorial

Kaki Bukit Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) chairman
David Poh posted on notice boards in Kaki Bukit a letter to residents stating
that the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) had not nominated
the area for a national upgrading programme this year.

In his letter, dated 3 May 2014, Mr Poh said Kaki Bukit was not among the 3
Aljunied projects selected by HDB for the Home Improvement Programme (HIP). Mr
Poh said the relevant town council must nominate projects before they are
selected and that AHPETC did not nominate any such projects for Kaki Bukit this
year. The council’s nomination must also be supported by the ward’s grassroots
adviser, who is either a PAP MP or PAP candidate who lost in the last
election. :oIo:

HIP is an initiative of HDB for flats built up to 1986 and which have not
undergone the Main Upgrading Programme (MUP). It is meant to help HDB residents
deal with common maintenance problems related to ageing flats, such as spalling
concrete and ceiling leaks.

“The CCC understands that many of our residents are facing problems like
spalling concrete, toilet floor water leakage etc, and look forward to HIP
coming to their blocks. Kaki Bukit is one of the oldest estates in Singapore,
with some flats as old as 37 years,” Mr Poh wrote.

Another letter was posted on the notice boards, dated 10 February 2014, which
Mr Poh wrote to AHPETC. With all 54 blocks in Kaki Bukit at least 30 years old,
Mr Poh appealed to AHPETC to consider prioritising 4 blocks in Bedok North
Street 3 that are around 37 years old for the upcoming HIP.

Responding to the latest assault by the grassroots leaders of Kaki Bukit,
AHPETC published a response on its website on Friday (9 May):

SPREADING THE BENEFITS OF HIP

We refer to the Kaki Bukit Citizens Consultative Committee’s letter dated 28
Apr 2014 which has been put up on People’s Association noticeboards in the Kaki
Bukit ward of Aljunied GRC. The letter states that the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol
East Town Council (AHPETC) did not nominate any blocks in the Kaki Bukit ward of
Aljunied GRC for the HDB Home Improvement Programme (HIP) for 2014.

In nominating clusters of blocks for the HIP, AHPETC considers the age of the
blocks as well as the need to ensure that, over time and in the interest of
fairness to all residents, all wards across the Town Council are nominated for
such upgrading projects. As a mature town with in excess of 700 blocks of flats,
AHPETC hosts many old blocks of flats in addition to those in Kaki Bukit. The
exception is Punggol East SMC, which has newer blocks that do not qualify for
HIP.

For the years 2012 and 2013, AHPETC nominated various clusters in the Eunos,
Hougang, Paya Lebar and Kaki Bukit wards for the HIP program. The Kaki Bukit
cluster (Blocks 533 to 536) was eventually selected by HDB for 2013. For 2014,
the Town Council nominated clusters in the Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Serangoon
and Paya Lebar wards for the HIP. HDB selected the clusters in Bedok
Reservoir-Punggol and Serangoon wards for FY 2014.

HIP is a national programme that commenced around 2008. When the current TC
management took over in 2011, many HIP-eligible blocks including those in Kaki
Bukit had not yet been nominated nor chosen for HIP. The HDB has since announced
that it would ramp up the HIP project, increasing the number of eligible units
per year from 28,000 units to 35,000 units. Next year, we will nominate more
clusters for HIP and look forward to HDB’s fair consideration of the
nominations.

ALJUNIED-HOUGANG-PUNGGOL EAST TOWN COUNCIL
9 May 2014
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In other words, prior to 2011 when Kaki Bukit was under PAP as part of Marine
Parade GRC, those Kaki Bukit grassroots leaders did not make a noise when none
of the Kaki Bukit flats were nominated for HIP by their PAP MP. But with Kaki
Bukit in opposition hands, they complain about every little thing.

Minister Vivian’s exchanges with AHPETC over cleaning issues at Kaki
Bukit

This is not the first time Kaki Bukit grassroots leaders have tried to paint
AHPETC in a bad light. Last year, when Minister Vivian and WP MP Sylvia Lim
crossed swords in Parliament, the Minister released a dossier of documentary
evidence to “prove” that AHPETC had attempted to charge the hawkers extra for
cleaning the high areas of 2 hawker centres in Kaki Bukit.

AHPETC denied this and maintained that there was a misunderstanding whether
the cleaning session was an annual or a quarterly one. On a conciliatory note,
WP Low Thia Khiang said that both the town council and NEA have “room for
improvement” when it comes to communication.

Inside the dossier, there were 2 petition letters by Block 511 and Block 538
Hawker Associations which had been forwarded to the press. They were petition
letters which, after being published by the press in early June 2013, brought
the hawker centre cleaning issue to the public’s attention.

TR Emeritus discovered that the 2 “complaint” letters were sent by Kaki Bukit
grassroots leaders:

• Block 538 Hawker Association – Mr Ng Kok Khim, PBM (‘The
  man in the centre of AHPETC controversy is a PAP grassroots leader‘)
• Block 511 Hawker Association – Mr Jonathan Oh Swee Yang (‘Blk
  511 Hawker Association Chairman is a PAP-linked grassroots leader too‘)

Jonathan Oh and Ng Kok Khim were no longer town councillors of Marine Parade
Town Council after 2011. This was because in the 2011 general election, Kaki
Bukit ward was cut out from Marine Parade GRC and put into Aljunied GRC in the
hope of bolstering the PAP’s votes in the latter GRC.

As it turned out, PAP lost Aljunied GRC, thereby ending the town councillor
careers of Jonathan Oh and Ng Kok Khim. They could not represent Kaki Bukit any
more as town councillors in the opposition-controlled Aljunied Town Council.

These PAP grassroots leaders must have been quite annoyed by WP’s winning
Aljunied GRC as it caused them to lose their town councillor jobs.

 

[scroobal]

This is where the PAP grassroots team could have worked harder and reached out their residents and got their votes. They would then be in a position to help the residents. Instead of complaining, they should work harder.

 

[frenchbriefs]

the residents should be happy cause PAP never give away free lunches....that Home improvement program is probably 8k worth of improvements at a marked up price of 12k tendered to PAP crony construction contractors.

 

[mojito]

Suay lah, Aljunied got breached by the WP first. Fortunately there is time for others to defect to the winning side. After all, the WP simply cannot have so many new councillors recruited by 2016 no?

 

[da dick]

i'm glad those sore losers arent in my supeior mat and flip-dominated marine parade GRC. kwa kwa kwa...

 

[da dick]

the residents should be happy cause PAP never give away free lunches....that Home improvement program is probably 8k worth of improvements at a marked up price of 12k tendered to PAP crony construction contractors.

what u say is true. every time upgrade in marine parade grc, sc n c charges and rent also want to go up. and rats and mosquitoes also go up. but NEA want to blame flat dwellers anyway. never go n fine those contractors loh!

 

[Satyr]

These are the kind of turds we find in PA and CCCs. How to volunteer like that ? After continuous immersion in that sewer you will never wash off the stench.

 

[escher]

These are the kind of turds we find in PA and CCCs. How to volunteer like that ? After continuous immersion in that sewer you will never wash off the stench.

Those are the fucking PAP collaborators who will be treated the same way as all fucking PAPs


Kill them all PAPs
Let GOD sort out the good from the really bad ones
The good PAPs can then eat joss sticks and candle wax from time to time
The bad PAPs like smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY will be raped and tiewed and kanned by legions of ghouls and demons and not ever
get time off to eat joss sticks and candle wax

Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.


None of those in PAP work for anyone but that smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY, to help him hold down Singaporeans to screw and fuck hundreds of BILLIONs from us all into smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY stinkapore sovereign funds.

They are there in PAP because LKY know that they are a bunch of self serving greedy bastards and scrapings of scums of society. To call them maggots cockroaches will be to insult real maggots and real cockroaches.
LKY will never allow good decent people into the PAP and good decent people will not want to get into the PAP.

Those in PAP are the most corrupt and moral degenerates and moral bankrupts and moral filths that are being presented to stinkaporeans as moral compasses.

Despite the leeching and fucking of singaporeans by the cheebye PAP and LKY, Singapore still managed to survive to date.
Despite their being hung as a fucking millstones around the necks of Singaporeans and the idiocy and corrupt manipulations of PAP and LKY, Singapore still not dead yet.

WE ALL ARE NOW WAITING FOR THE DEATH OF LKY IN COMING DAYS OR WEEKS.
WE ALL WILL YUM SENG AND YUM SENG AND YUM SENG AGAIN AND AGAIN DANCING SINGING ON TABLE TOPS AND STREETS

WE THEN WILL SEE THOSE IN PAP WITH SHARPENED KNIVES HOOTING ARSEHLOON A DOZEN NEW ARSEHOLES AND THE DEATH OF THE ENTIRE LEE KWA CLAN

WE THEN WILL PICK UP PIANO WIRES AND HANG ALL THOSE REMAINING PAP AND THEIR COLLABORATORS FROM LAMP POSTS AND SEE THOSE BASTARDS AND BITCHES DANCE.
AND HAPPINESS WILL RETURN TO OUR LAND.

AND STINKAPORE WILL BECOME SINGAPORE ONCE MORE.

 

[tanwahp]

I am more amazed by the silence of Goh Meng Seng. He hasn't surfaced to defend David and repeat his doomsday prediction for WP.

 

[xingguy]

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[jw5]

I am more amazed by the silence of Goh Meng Seng. He hasn't surfaced to defend David and repeat his doomsday prediction for WP.

It's too close to the next GE. He is trying to figure out which side his bread can be buttered.

 

[tanwahp]

It's too close to the next GE. He is trying to figure out which side his bread can be buttered.

Agreed. 3 years ago after GE 2011, "failing" the residents of Kaki Bukit would have been labelled a "mistake" causing WP to lose Aljunied that he will eat popcorn over.

Apparently he seems to have discarded the popcorn before finishing it and wants to enter the movie as the male lead.

 

[virus]

It's too close to the next GE. He is trying to figure out which side his bread can be buttered.

No brainier no side wants him. Too much of liability.

 

[GoldenDragon]

I am more amazed by the silence of Goh Meng Seng. He hasn't surfaced to defend David and repeat his doomsday prediction for WP.

It's only a matter of time he will surface unless directed not to.

 

[Seee3]

......unless directed not to.

Maybe he has already lost his job or he maybe has matured to realise that leading a normal life is better.

 

[The_Hypocrite]

I am glad tat these KB case n YPAP case n Vivian barking like a mad dog is happening. It shows the PAP n its crony organisation the PA destroying themselves from within. The oppos just have to buck up n Singapore will have a chance.