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[h=2]Another Kaki Bukit grassroots leader faults AHPETC[/h]
May 18th, 2014 |
Author: Editorial
Calvin Teo (from his Facebook page)
Kaki Bukit Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) chairman David Poh recently
posted a letter on notice boards in Kaki Bukit, informing the residents that
Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) had not nominated the ward
for the HDB Home Improvement Programme (HIP). This was reported by the Straits
Times (ST) last Saturday (“Grassroots leader, AHPETC at odds over upgrading”, 10
May).
Mr Poh said that 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 (‘Kaki
Bukit grassroots find fault with AHPTEC again‘).
David Poh’s letter to the residents:
Yesterday (16 May), Mr Calvin Teo, assistant secretary of Kaki Bukit CCC,
wrote a letter to ST Forum complaining that the headline of the ST article
(“Grassroots leader, AHPETC at odds over upgrading”) gave the impression that
the appeal to AHPETC for upgrading of blocks in Kaki Bukit came from chairman
David Poh, when in fact it came from the CCC itself.
Mr Teo said that there are 53 residential blocks in Kaki Bukit, and all
except one are more than 30 years old.
“Today, there are still 30 blocks that have not been upgraded,” he said.
Mr Teo argued that based on age, “Kaki Bukit should have a few flats selected
every year”.
“It is disappointing that this year, AHPETC nominated 8 upgrading projects
for the constituencies under its charge but excluded Kaki Bukit, which has the
oldest flats in the constituency,” he added.
“The CCC decided to appeal to AHPETC on Feb 10 to reconsider its nominations,
but there was no reply for three months. The CCC recognises that it has to
respect the decisions of AHPETC, but all we are asking is for it to respond to
our appeals.”
Apparently, Mr Teo’s letter to ST Forum carried the signatures of all the
Kaki Bukit CCC members.
In any case, AHPETC has already responded to the latest assault by the
grassroots leaders of Kaki Bukit. It published a response on its website on
Friday (9 May). In its reply, AHPETC revealed that for the last 2 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, in fact, eventually selected by HDB for 2013.
For 2014, AHPETC nominated clusters in the Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Serangoon
and Paya Lebar wards for the HIP to give the flats in these places a chance to
be upgraded. HDB eventually selected the clusters in Bedok Reservoir-Punggol and
Serangoon wards in Aljunied GRC to be upgraded for 2014.
AHPETC noted that 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. It promised to nominate more clusters in Aljunied GRC for HIP and
“looked forward to HDB’s fair consideration of the nominations”.
Kaki Bukit grassroots leaders have tried to find fault with AHPETC numerous
times, ever since Aljunied GRC fell into opposition hands. Last year, they
complained about cleaning issues at 2 Kaki Bukit hawker centres. The complaints
were so great the matter was even brought up by Minister Vivian in Parliament
for debate at the national level.
With regard to the letter from Calvin Teo, popular blog The Alternative View
[Link]
asked the following questions:
“All we are asking,” he (Calvin Teo) wrote, “is for it (AHPETC) to respond to
our appeal.”
Now if indeed that was his intention, we wonder why Calvin Teo saw the need
to paste letters on the PA notice boards making the aforesaid accusation.
Does Calvin Teo expect the AHPETC to reconsider its decision each time the
CCC of a ward makes an appeal?
Does Calvin Teo understand the meaning of “fairness” and “spreading the
benefits”?
AHPETC oversees over 700 blocks of flats. Does he think that residents living
in the other clusters would care for the fact that flats in Kaki Bukit were not
selected this year and hence, in a display of altruism, give up their chance at
upgrading this time round?
And if there are still 30 blocks in the Kaki Bukit cluster that have not been
upgraded, shouldn’t Calvin Teo and his gang question their own PAP which had
been in control of the GRC for decades?
Better still, why doesn’t Calvin Teo write to HDB to ramp up the HIP, instead
of barking at WP?
Finally, lest we forget, the CCC is an arm of the People’s Association which
has a highly pro-PAP partisan agenda, being headed by none other than Lee Hsien
Loong himself. Indeed, the PA’s blatant attempts at sabotaging WP are on record
for all to see.
Who is Calvin Teo?
According to LinkedIn [Link], Calvin Teo is
the owner of Top Advertising Pte Ltd:
His company provides creative design and print solutions. And according to
his company’s Facebook page [Link],
the company has won many awards:
What is even more interesting is his company website reveals an impressive
list of clients [Link] consisting
mainly of Singapore government bodies and agencies, including the PMO:
Some netizens looked through the postings on his personal Facebook page [Link] and found that he has
been telling unhappy Singaporeans to quickly emigrate so that foreigners can
come in:
It is indeed surprising to hear this from a so-called grassroots leader of
our community, who is essentially telling unhappy Singaporeans to get out of
Singapore.
Calvin Teo’s boss, Kaki Bukit CCC chairman David Poh was earlier revealed to
be the President of the Moneylender’s Association of Singapore (‘Grassroots’
David Poh is Moneylender’s Assoc President‘).
The “adviser” to Kaki Bukit CCC is Ong Ye Kung, the losing PAP candidate for
Aljunied GRC in the 2011 general election.
[h=2]Another Kaki Bukit grassroots leader faults AHPETC[/h]
Calvin Teo (from his Facebook page)
Kaki Bukit Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) chairman David Poh recently
posted a letter on notice boards in Kaki Bukit, informing the residents that
Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) had not nominated the ward
for the HDB Home Improvement Programme (HIP). This was reported by the Straits
Times (ST) last Saturday (“Grassroots leader, AHPETC at odds over upgrading”, 10
May).
Mr Poh said that 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 (‘Kaki
Bukit grassroots find fault with AHPTEC again‘).
David Poh’s letter to the residents:
Yesterday (16 May), Mr Calvin Teo, assistant secretary of Kaki Bukit CCC,
wrote a letter to ST Forum complaining that the headline of the ST article
(“Grassroots leader, AHPETC at odds over upgrading”) gave the impression that
the appeal to AHPETC for upgrading of blocks in Kaki Bukit came from chairman
David Poh, when in fact it came from the CCC itself.
Mr Teo said that there are 53 residential blocks in Kaki Bukit, and all
except one are more than 30 years old.
“Today, there are still 30 blocks that have not been upgraded,” he said.
Mr Teo argued that based on age, “Kaki Bukit should have a few flats selected
every year”.
“It is disappointing that this year, AHPETC nominated 8 upgrading projects
for the constituencies under its charge but excluded Kaki Bukit, which has the
oldest flats in the constituency,” he added.
“The CCC decided to appeal to AHPETC on Feb 10 to reconsider its nominations,
but there was no reply for three months. The CCC recognises that it has to
respect the decisions of AHPETC, but all we are asking is for it to respond to
our appeals.”
Apparently, Mr Teo’s letter to ST Forum carried the signatures of all the
Kaki Bukit CCC members.
In any case, AHPETC has already responded to the latest assault by the
grassroots leaders of Kaki Bukit. It published a response on its website on
Friday (9 May). In its reply, AHPETC revealed that for the last 2 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, in fact, eventually selected by HDB for 2013.
For 2014, AHPETC nominated clusters in the Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Serangoon
and Paya Lebar wards for the HIP to give the flats in these places a chance to
be upgraded. HDB eventually selected the clusters in Bedok Reservoir-Punggol and
Serangoon wards in Aljunied GRC to be upgraded for 2014.
AHPETC noted that 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. It promised to nominate more clusters in Aljunied GRC for HIP and
“looked forward to HDB’s fair consideration of the nominations”.
Kaki Bukit grassroots leaders have tried to find fault with AHPETC numerous
times, ever since Aljunied GRC fell into opposition hands. Last year, they
complained about cleaning issues at 2 Kaki Bukit hawker centres. The complaints
were so great the matter was even brought up by Minister Vivian in Parliament
for debate at the national level.
With regard to the letter from Calvin Teo, popular blog The Alternative View
[Link]
asked the following questions:
“All we are asking,” he (Calvin Teo) wrote, “is for it (AHPETC) to respond to
our appeal.”
Now if indeed that was his intention, we wonder why Calvin Teo saw the need
to paste letters on the PA notice boards making the aforesaid accusation.
Does Calvin Teo expect the AHPETC to reconsider its decision each time the
CCC of a ward makes an appeal?
Does Calvin Teo understand the meaning of “fairness” and “spreading the
benefits”?
AHPETC oversees over 700 blocks of flats. Does he think that residents living
in the other clusters would care for the fact that flats in Kaki Bukit were not
selected this year and hence, in a display of altruism, give up their chance at
upgrading this time round?
And if there are still 30 blocks in the Kaki Bukit cluster that have not been
upgraded, shouldn’t Calvin Teo and his gang question their own PAP which had
been in control of the GRC for decades?
Better still, why doesn’t Calvin Teo write to HDB to ramp up the HIP, instead
of barking at WP?
Finally, lest we forget, the CCC is an arm of the People’s Association which
has a highly pro-PAP partisan agenda, being headed by none other than Lee Hsien
Loong himself. Indeed, the PA’s blatant attempts at sabotaging WP are on record
for all to see.
According to LinkedIn [Link], Calvin Teo is
the owner of Top Advertising Pte Ltd:
His company provides creative design and print solutions. And according to
his company’s Facebook page [Link],
the company has won many awards:
What is even more interesting is his company website reveals an impressive
list of clients [Link] consisting
mainly of Singapore government bodies and agencies, including the PMO:
- Prime Minister’s Office
- Minstry of Defence
- Singapore Armed Forces
- Republic of Singapore Air Force
- Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports
- People’s Association
- South East Community Development Council
- North East Community Development Council
- North West Community Development Council
- South West Community Development Council
- Central Community Development Council
- Community Centres / Clubs
- Resident’s / Neighbourhood Committees
- Singapore Sports Council
- Ministry of Home Affairs
- Internal Security Department
- Singapore Police Force
- Singapore Civil Defence Force
- Central Narcotic Bureau
- National Crime Prevention Council
- Ministry of Finance
- Monetary Authority of Singapore
- Ministry of Law
- Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
- Ministry of Trade and Industry
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research
- Ministry of Transport
- Land Transport Authority
- Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
- Ministry of National Development
- Building and Construction Authority
- Ministry of Education
- National University of Singapore
- Nanyang Technology University
- Singapore Management University
- Singapore Institute of Management
- Institute of Technical Education
- JCs / Secondary / Primary Schools
- Teachers’ Network
- Ministry of Health
- National University Hospital
- Mediacorp
- Canon Singapore
- The Asia Life
- Performance Motor
- Singapore Technologies
- Association for Small & Medium Enterprise
- Lions Club of Singapore
- Junior Chamber of Singapore
Some netizens looked through the postings on his personal Facebook page [Link] and found that he has
been telling unhappy Singaporeans to quickly emigrate so that foreigners can
come in:
It is indeed surprising to hear this from a so-called grassroots leader of
our community, who is essentially telling unhappy Singaporeans to get out of
Singapore.
Calvin Teo’s boss, Kaki Bukit CCC chairman David Poh was earlier revealed to
be the President of the Moneylender’s Association of Singapore (‘Grassroots’
David Poh is Moneylender’s Assoc President‘).
The “adviser” to Kaki Bukit CCC is Ong Ye Kung, the losing PAP candidate for
Aljunied GRC in the 2011 general election.
