WE REFER to Mr Muhammad Yusuf Osman's letter yesterday ('Advisers to grassroots bodies should be elected MPs').
The mission of the People's Association (PA) and its grassroots organisations (GROs) is to bond the community and connect people with the Government. PA and its GROs serve all residents regardless of their political affiliations in fulfilling their role.
Grassroots advisers are appointed by PA, a statutory board. Besides connecting people to people, grassroots advisers are required to help the Government connect with people and help promote government policies and programmes such as anti-dengue and active ageing.
Hence, the Government has to appoint grassroots advisers who support its programmes and can play this role well. Opposition MPs cannot be expected to do this and thus cannot become advisers to GROs.
Ooi Hui Mei (Ms)
Director
Corporate and Marketing Communications
For Chief Executive Director
People's Association
So is Ms Ooi saying that the Opposition cannot help promote govt policies and programmes such as anti-dengue and active ageing?
Isn't it more of the PA doesn't want to co-operate with the Opposition to help promote such programmes?
Such blatant and shameless declaration of how unwilling the PA (and the PAP) is to work with others for the good of all Singaporeans as a Nation.
So for all the hypocritical talk by the PAPpy govt and PM that Singaporeans should work together, the PA has done PAPpy in. The PA admits that its mission, its purpose, its objective, is to advance govt programmes, and the Opposition has no place in it.