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PMO: Staff ’support’ provided to Lee Kuan Yew (using taxpayers’ monies)
July 12th, 2011 |
Author: Temasek Review
Three weeks after we published an article on Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong still having private secretaries under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) though they are no longer in the Singapore cabinet, PMO released a press statement today clarifiying the matter.
The statement which was published first by Channel News Asia said that “Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has decided that former Minister Mentor Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Emeritus Senior Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong will be provided staff support by the govern­ment.”
Each will have one special assistant and one press secretary part-time, plus one secretary and two clerical officers full-time to “enable them to carry out official work when called upon by the government as well as their duties as senior advisors to GIC and MAS respectively.”
Based on the PMO’s statement, GIC and MAS should be providing the staff support to Lee and Goh and not the PMO itself since both Lee and Goh have already relinquished their positions in the Prime Minister’s Office.
The PMO should reveal the yearly cost of providing such additional staff support to Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong to Singaporeans who are ultimately paying their salaries.
At 88 years of age, Lee is probably the world’s oldest living MP. Though he has retired from the Singapore cabinet, he is still ‘active’ giving talks at seminars and traveling around the world dispensing his classic ‘pearls of wisdom’ to others.
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Three weeks after we published an article on Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong still having private secretaries under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) though they are no longer in the Singapore cabinet, PMO released a press statement today clarifiying the matter.
The statement which was published first by Channel News Asia said that “Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has decided that former Minister Mentor Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Emeritus Senior Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong will be provided staff support by the govern­ment.”
Each will have one special assistant and one press secretary part-time, plus one secretary and two clerical officers full-time to “enable them to carry out official work when called upon by the government as well as their duties as senior advisors to GIC and MAS respectively.”
Based on the PMO’s statement, GIC and MAS should be providing the staff support to Lee and Goh and not the PMO itself since both Lee and Goh have already relinquished their positions in the Prime Minister’s Office.
The PMO should reveal the yearly cost of providing such additional staff support to Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong to Singaporeans who are ultimately paying their salaries.
At 88 years of age, Lee is probably the world’s oldest living MP. Though he has retired from the Singapore cabinet, he is still ‘active’ giving talks at seminars and traveling around the world dispensing his classic ‘pearls of wisdom’ to others.
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