Smrt staff caught harassing blind busker near woodlands mrt station

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[h=1]SMRT STAFF CAUGHT HARASSING BLIND BUSKER NEAR WOODLANDS MRT STATION[/h]
Post date:
18 Jan 2015 - 11:27pm








SMRT staff harassing blind busker?
A netizen, Zarina Jaffar, has posted a complaint on her Facebook to recount what she has alleged to be a series of harassment by a staff of Woodlands MRT station against a visually impaired busker.
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Suhaime Roa is a prolific song writer and singers back in the 80's. He is visually handicap and is a father of 4 children.
For the past few years he has been busking at CWP and Civic centre. Woodlands. He has NAC license for it. Sometimes back he has been harassed by Edmund Chong Kong Lum from Woodlands MRT. This idiotic of a guy try to exert his authority by ordering Suhaime to move away from the usual place he used to play.
Suhaime would comply. If not he would call the police. This harrassment got so bad that a police report has been lodged against him but it still continued. I will copy and paste the convoy I had with his wife. By the way when he played its not even on SMRT Ground. following are her PM's
"We've been tolerating this far too much. We did go to MPs to seek advice n help. As a responsible man, Suhaime just want to earn a living by trading his talent for the family. Insyaallah."






TODAY AFTER I LEFT THE STATION, HIS WIFE PM AGAIN
"He came again. Demand to see Suhaime's busking license. He want to make report to NAC tomorrow.
We refused to give. Told him that he got no right to see as we are not in his ground.
He said he will call the police. We told him to go ahead..."
"He call Transcom Policeman. They also agree that it's not MRT ground."
"Just now, he's not happy when Transcom Police refuse to give Suhaime's particulars because the policemen said that Suhaime is not MRT ground. He call NPC. NPC came n told him the same thing. Our friend still not happy:, when the Transcom Policemen refused to give Suhaime's particulars to him, he took down the Policemen's particulars? What was he up to? Is he trying to manipulate with the Police too?
"Even the CWP staff talk to him. He wants to show his power" UNQUOTE
In one of the pictures you would see he very the kurang ajar put a barrier in front of Suhaime while the other picture is he standing threateningly.

Source:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=927137940643607&id=100000422283176&ref=bookmark

 

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But adopting a nonchalant attitude towards FTrash beggar syndicates!

http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/12/11/manpower-minister-encounters-a-prc-beggar/

[h=2]Manpower Minister encounters a PRC beggar[/h]

December 11th, 2014 |

Author: Editorial

Minister Tan Chuan-Jin


Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin posted a message on his Facebook page [Link]
yesterday (10 Dec).

While he was on his way to his Meet-the-People session in the evening, he
came across a man around 50 or 60 years of age, begging outside the St Andrew’s
Cathedral.

Begging, of course, is illegal in Singapore. Under the Destitute Persons Act
(cap 78):

Penalty for begging

4. – (1) Any person being a habitual beggar found begging in a public place
in such a way as to cause or be likely to cause annoyance to persons frequenting
the place or otherwise to create a nuisance shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $3,000 or to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 2 years.

(2) In this section, “habitual beggar” means a person who on at least 2
previous occasions was found begging in a public place in such a way as to cause
or be likely to cause annoyance to persons frequenting the place or otherwise to
create a nuisance and was in consequence thereof required on those 2 occasions
to reside in a welfare home.
​

Thinking that the man needed help, Mr Tan stopped to talk to him.

As it turns out, the man was from China.

“He didn’t seem keen to talk and I soon realised why. He was from China,” Mr
Tan wrote.

“I asked him if he had problems. Asked him why he was here. Couldn’t get a
coherent answer. Said he came by to 看看, look-see.”

Mr Tan then asked him if he was in need of help and why he spent all his
money to come all the way to Singapore.

Mr Tan took a look at his passport and found out that the man, in fact, has
just arrived from Kuala Lumpur. He was in Kuala Lumpur too.

“A kind young man let me use his phone to record the details,” Mr Tan
said,

“Will ask relevant agency to follow up and if he needs help, for the embassy
to assist. I doubt if we’d be able to find him though… he said he stayed in Toa
Payoh but didn’t have an address.”

Mr Tan added, “I guess if it warrants being flagged up, then the only place
we’d next pick him up would be at immigration when he departs.”

Mr Tan said he has spoken to many on the streets who seem to have
difficulties, but this man is the first whom he has encountered to be a
foreigner.

“He was certainly well placed, and did elicit a sympathetic response. While
he may genuinely have problems, something tells me that he is taking advantage
of our generosity and kindness,” Mr Tan concluded.

Tip of the iceberg

On his Facebook page, many netizens have written in to say that such an
incident is merely a tip of the iceberg. Such incidents have been going on for
years in Singapore:

Wayne Wong: This encounter is but only a tip of the
icebergs’ of “beggars” from China, that pollutes this island. There remains
many, much more – invisible to authorities. Now, how did these people enter
Singapore ?

Freya Ho: Now then U know this………shocked………it’s been
like this for years……………….PRC ahMas fighting with local ahMas for discarded
cardboard cartons………PRC ahGong fighting with local ahGong tissue sellers at
hawker centres.

Yusri Mohd: My God Mr Minister! Where have u been? This
is not new. Ever since the floodgate wide wide open for any tom dick n harry i
have been seeing a lot of PRCs begging, selling tissue and what not. Go to Seah
Im Food Centre during lunchtime. See old couple with PRCs accent selling
tissues. Not to mentioned prostitutes. Pls lah sir, this have been going on for
some time already.

Li Xu: Foreigners on tourist visit pass making bucks tax
free? Is our open door policy far too open?

TF Liang: He is certainly taking advantage of the
system, and this has been happening for the past 10 years.

Eileen Tay-Tseng: It is very common to see PRC begging
or selling tissue papers nowadays in sgp!!!

Athena Zhou: Sir,many of them has been on social visit
pass to work as performing artiste in ktv and nightclubs but holding social
visit pass

Vince Wong: This is not common anymore. More of this
kind could be seen near temples, mosques and etc. They also selling
tissues!
​

What do you think?