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Former labour MP dies
THE former PAP MP for Radin Mas, Mr Mohamed Kassim Abdul Jabbar, died of renal failure on Saturday morning.
He was 77 and had suffered a stroke several years earlier.
The former president of the Union of Keppel Shipyard Employees was an MP from 1981 to 1984.
Mr Jabbar started work as an assistant carpenter at the Singapore Harbour Board and rose to be assistant supervisor. He was an active trade unionist from 1954, and was elected union president in 1970.
He was elected to the NTUC central committee in 1979, and was elected MP for Radin Mas in the December 1980 General Election.
He stepped down ahead of the 1984 election to make way for new blood. But he remained active in grassroots and community work, especially as president of the United Indian Muslim Association from 1990 to 2003, and then as its senior adviser.
Former parliamentary colleague Saidi Shariff, 70, called the longtime PAP member a 'very effective union leader who was vocal in raising workers' issues in Parliament'.
'He spoke his mind on what he believed was right,' he said.
Singapore Kadayanallur Muslim League president Naseer Ghani, 52, said Mr Jabbar had helped unite the Indian Muslim community through his sincerity, humility and hard work.
Mr Jabbar was buried at the Choa Chu Kang Muslim Cemetery yesterday afternoon. He leaves a wife and three children.
ZAKIR HUSSAIN
THE former PAP MP for Radin Mas, Mr Mohamed Kassim Abdul Jabbar, died of renal failure on Saturday morning.
He was 77 and had suffered a stroke several years earlier.
The former president of the Union of Keppel Shipyard Employees was an MP from 1981 to 1984.
Mr Jabbar started work as an assistant carpenter at the Singapore Harbour Board and rose to be assistant supervisor. He was an active trade unionist from 1954, and was elected union president in 1970.
He was elected to the NTUC central committee in 1979, and was elected MP for Radin Mas in the December 1980 General Election.
He stepped down ahead of the 1984 election to make way for new blood. But he remained active in grassroots and community work, especially as president of the United Indian Muslim Association from 1990 to 2003, and then as its senior adviser.
Former parliamentary colleague Saidi Shariff, 70, called the longtime PAP member a 'very effective union leader who was vocal in raising workers' issues in Parliament'.
'He spoke his mind on what he believed was right,' he said.
Singapore Kadayanallur Muslim League president Naseer Ghani, 52, said Mr Jabbar had helped unite the Indian Muslim community through his sincerity, humility and hard work.
Mr Jabbar was buried at the Choa Chu Kang Muslim Cemetery yesterday afternoon. He leaves a wife and three children.
ZAKIR HUSSAIN
