The unproductive million dollar minister, V Balakrishnan

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From Where Bear Roams Free blog: http://wherebearsroamfree.blogspot.sg/2013/07/the-unproductive-million-dollar.html

[h=3]The unproductive million dollar minister, V Balakrishnan[/h]at<a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://wherebearsroamfree.blogspot.sg/2013/07/the-unproductive-million-dollar.html" rel="bookmark" target="_blank"><abbr class="published" title="2013-07-10T08:11:00+08:00">08:11:00</abbr>byBarrie

The NEA-AHPETC saga has been resolved some time ago. But V Balakrishnan appears more interested in dwelling in the past on unproductive matters instead of looking forward. Why is Singapore wasting a million dollars on this unproductive minister?


Minister Jamban and Longkang Inspector vowing that he would check every nook and cranny after the cleaning, justifying why he needs to be paid a million bucks.

Dr Balakrishnan accuses WP of being untruthful in hawker centre cleaning saga

Workers remove the tables and seats before cleaning at Blk 511 Bedok North Street 3 hawker centre. In a dramatic exchange in Parliament on Tuesday, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan accused Workers' Party MPs Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh of making "false and untruthful" statements on the recent hawker centre cleaning dispute. -- ST FILE PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI

In a dramatic exchange in Parliament on Tuesday, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan accused Workers' Party MPs Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh of making "false and untruthful" statements on the recent hawker centre cleaning dispute.

Providing a full account of what he described as a "sorry episode", Dr Balakrishnan said the witnesses and the evidence clearly led to the conclusion that a property manager of the WP-run town council in Aljunied GRC had asked hawkers at two Bedok hawker centres to pay extra for annual cleaning.

This, despite the standard practice for at least the past decade that the town council should have foot the bill. The request was made, furthermore, on at least three separate occasions, he added.

Ms Lim maintained that the WP had not been untruthful.

But, Dr Balakrishnan countered that in the face of "incontrovertible evidence", repeated denials by Ms Lim and Mr Singh that the property manager had made any such request were "very, very troubling".

Suggesting that this amounted to a cover-up, he said the crux of the issue was "clean politics", not the "cleanliness of the (hawker centre) ceiling".

During the exchange, which lasted 36 minutes, Ms Lim categorically denied the allegations of falsehood and reiterated that the issue was a misunderstanding rooted in a misleading email from the National Environment Agency, and confusion over whether the cleaning being discussed were annual or quarterly ones.

Ms Lim, the chairman of WP and the town council which the hawker centres in question come under, did not deny that they were responsible for cleaning the ceilings of the hawker centre once a year.

But, she said there was no law stating which time of the year this had to happen.

Midway through the exchange, Dr Balakrishnan distributed to MPs a dossier of evidence, with email and meeting minutes to back up his case that Ms Lim had been untruthful. Ms Lim denied that the evidence proved the allegation.​

Note the tone of vindictiveness of this highly unproductive minister. He is bent on digging up old bones. Not only he is not moving forward, he likes to look back at issues that have already been resolved. While everybody is moving two steps forward, he is moving back three.


Concerted effort by the PAPpy gang to tartnish WP -

From Day One, I have maintained that this episode is the concerted effort by the PAPpies to tarnish WP. V Bala has now made it into his personal agenda.

Here are some past posts I put up, demonstrating V Bala's incompetency as a minister right down to the core. Not to mention his vindictiveness. All fiery talk and no productivity to show.

V Balakrishnan, the PAPpy minister with a schoolgirl's tantrum

NEA-AHPETC saga - V Balakrishnan yaks too much and exposes his sinister intention

Today, the ST published the NEA-AHPETC issue as headlines on the front page. On page A6, it is almost a full page coverage. Even the ST, an arm of the PAPpy, is in this organised attack.

Let's not forget the masterpiece truth put up by Roy Ngerng. He explains it very clearly.
[Infographics] AHPETC-NEA Stand-Off: What’s Really Going On? (Part 3)

Click on images to enlarge.




Conclusion -

It can be seen that the Jamban and Longkang minister is a backward looking minister. While WP and the rest are moving forward, Minister Jamban and Longkang is dwelling on the past that has already been resolved.

 

[winnipegjets]

Why has Ng Kok Khim not spoken up at all? The hawkers should go after him for misleading them. Seems like Ng Kok Khim made promises to the hawkers and could not deliver.

What did Ng Kok Khim tell the hawkers about the spring cleaning? Ng Kok Khim doesn't know the difference between Spring cleaning and Annual cleaning as well?

Why did Ng Kok Khim asked for scaffolding quotation during the Spring cleaning?

 

[freedalas]

I am not trying to defend VB here. He's exactly what u guys said of him - an absolute idiot without any substance and who had shown the whole world how incompetent he is in tackling the haze and dengue issues, not to mention throwing down millions of dollars down the drain with the YOG. But we must always remember who is the real person behind all this. Who is VB trying to please when he spoke those things? Whose ears were they meant for? For whom his body language and all the theatrics was he wayanging for? NO, it's not for any of us. He was doing all these for one man - The Old Fart who has obviously directed the attacks on WP for making him lose face when PAP lost Aljunied despite his threats. Never forget how vindictive the Old Fart. So VB was doing it all for the Old Fart alone, not even his son who has no real authority. So VB fuck care what we think of him as long as it pleases the Old Fart. Always remember that everything that the PAP say and does all stems from the Old Fart, be it directly or indirectly.

 

[OldFart]

I am not trying to defend VB here. He's exactly what u guys said of him - an absolute idiot without any substance and who had shown the whole world how incompetent he is in tackling the haze and dengue issues, not to mention throwing down millions of dollars down the drain with the YOG. But we must always remember who is the real person behind all this. Who is VB trying to please when he spoke those things? Whose ears were they meant for? For whom his body language and all the theatrics was he wayanging for? NO, it's not for any of us. He was doing all these for one man - The Old Fart who has obviously directed the attacks on WP for making him lose face when PAP lost Aljunied despite his threats. Never forget how vindictive the Old Fart. So VB was doing it all for the Old Fart alone, not even his son who has no real authority. So VB fuck care what we think of him as long as it pleases the Old Fart. Always remember that everything that the PAP say and does all stems from the Old Fart, be it directly or indirectly.

kns, one post mentioned oldfart so 5 times woke me up

 

[Satyr]

I am not trying to defend VB here. He's exactly what u guys said of him - an absolute idiot without any substance and who had shown the whole world how incompetent he is in tackling the haze and dengue issues, not to mention throwing down millions of dollars down the drain with the YOG. But we must always remember who is the real person behind all this. Who is VB trying to please when he spoke those things? Whose ears were they meant for? For whom his body language and all the theatrics was he wayanging for? NO, it's not for any of us. He was doing all these for one man - The Old Fart who has obviously directed the attacks on WP for making him lose face when PAP lost Aljunied despite his threats. Never forget how vindictive the Old Fart. So VB was doing it all for the Old Fart alone, not even his son who has no real authority. So VB fuck care what we think of him as long as it pleases the Old Fart. Always remember that everything that the PAP say and does all stems from the Old Fart, be it directly or indirectly.

I have two things to say to VB.
Remember the Gomez saga ?
Remember George Yeo ?

 

[escher]

All those Million dollars Ministers should find a public toilet bowl still not flushed and collectively kneel there and stick all their fucking heads into the bowl below the water line and say the Stinkapore pledge that they forced us to say everyday in school while screwing and fucking us of hundreds of billions into smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY Stinkapore sovereign funds and their own fucking pays

 

[freedalas]

kns, one post mentioned oldfart so 5 times woke me up

So sorry bro, I don't mean u lah. I mean that "Old Fart" who everyone is guessing will turn up for NDP this year or not.

 

[winnipegjets]

The hawkers were misled by the NEA and they wanted compensation. The NEA is trying to pin the blame on WP TC. The communications and NEA internal notes show that the screw-up was by the NEA which told the hawkers that the spring cleaning was an annual cleaning. The NEA doesn't even know how to differentiate the smaller scale cleaning (spring cleaning that is done quarterly) from the annual cleaning (which is a 5-day affair). It refers to all cleaning as spring cleaning.

NEA officers didn't even bother to clarify and just told the hawkers to prepare for the annual cleaning. Why is the NEA involved in the first place?

NEA regulates, not micro-manage. Why are they not micro-managing in the PAP wards?

 

[bryanlim1972]

The hawkers were misled by the NEA and they wanted compensation. The NEA is trying to pin the blame on WP TC. The communications and NEA internal notes show that the screw-up was by the NEA which told the hawkers that the spring cleaning was an annual cleaning. The NEA doesn't even know how to differentiate the smaller scale cleaning (spring cleaning that is done quarterly) from the annual cleaning (which is a 5-day affair). It refers to all cleaning as spring cleaning.

NEA officers didn't even bother to clarify and just told the hawkers to prepare for the annual cleaning. Why is the NEA involved in the first place?

NEA regulates, not micro-manage. Why are they not micro-managing in the PAP wards?

NEA became politicized because of Chee and all his hawking stunts; they've been fucked up ever since and got worse from yacoob to vivian.

also seems like its a dead-end seat in the cabinet to kena the environment appointment.