WP chief Pritam Singh charged with lying to Parliament over Raeesah Khan’s case, pleads not guilty

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Wasn’t WP supposed to be the check and balance in parliament? They cannot do their job even with a $380k LOTO?

How did he “get off scot free”?

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The mistake is done deal. The new lie is what he claimed full responsibility but there was no details of what that means. If such disclosure means getting off scot free easily, does it that anyone who made mistake can do the same and not bear any real responsibility?

Whether Pritiam lied or not it is up the judge to decide. Meanwhile, Vivian has yet to to clarify and it becomes a lie if he doesn't.
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coern said:
Wasn’t WP supposed to be the check and balance in parliament? They cannot do their job even with a $380k LOTO?

How did he “get off scot free”?
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How did WP not do their job?

By not clarifying how he took full responsibility?
 
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In answering these queries, Dr Balakrishnan said he became aware that what he said was wrong at the end of October last year, after a member of the public had asked if he was sure that CPC would not apply, even for a murder case.

At that time, he got a staff member to check the legal provisions. That was when he was informed that CPC applied and that the police had already requested TraceTogether data on one occasion.

In the month that followed, he said that he had many sleepless nights, double-checked the legislation and engaged in several rounds of discussions with senior Cabinet members to deliberate on whether and how the use of TraceTogether data should be carved out from the CPC.

Aware that he had given an assurance in June last year, he also told a staff member then that “regardless of the outcome of this internal review... we will clarify”. So he took the opportunity to do so when Mr de Souza filed a related parliamentary question last December.

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Sylvia Lim, who is WP chairman, separately asked: “The bigger question is: For all these months, why did no one in the Government step forward to correct the misrepresentation that TraceTogether was fully ring-fenced for Covid-19 tracing?”


https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...krishnan-details-error-use-tracetogether-data
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coern said:
In answering these queries, Dr Balakrishnan said he became aware that what he said was wrong at the end of October last year, after a member of the public had asked if he was sure that CPC would not apply, even for a murder case.

At that time, he got a staff member to check the legal provisions. That was when he was informed that CPC applied and that the police had already requested TraceTogether data on one occasion.

In the month that followed, he said that he had many sleepless nights, double-checked the legislation and engaged in several rounds of discussions with senior Cabinet members to deliberate on whether and how the use of TraceTogether data should be carved out from the CPC.

Aware that he had given an assurance in June last year, he also told a staff member then that “regardless of the outcome of this internal review... we will clarify”. So he took the opportunity to do so when Mr de Souza filed a related parliamentary question last December.
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So
Not competent in his job
Took months to come clean
Aware public was misled
 
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Leader of the Opposition and Workers' Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh has been charged with lying to a Committee of Privileges (COP) over the Raeesah Khan case. The COP was looking into a lie told by Ms Khan, a former WP MP, in parliament in 2021, and how the WP leadership dealt with her.

Here's a look at the testimonies at the COP hearings in December 2021 that led to the charges Singh faces.

Read more: https://cna.asia/3IJAJ9i
 
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coern said:
In answering these queries, Dr Balakrishnan said he became aware that what he said was wrong at the end of October last year, after a member of the public had asked if he was sure that CPC would not apply, even for a murder case.

At that time, he got a staff member to check the legal provisions. That was when he was informed that CPC applied and that the police had already requested TraceTogether data on one occasion.

In the month that followed, he said that he had many sleepless nights, double-checked the legislation and engaged in several rounds of discussions with senior Cabinet members to deliberate on whether and how the use of TraceTogether data should be carved out from the CPC.

Aware that he had given an assurance in June last year, he also told a staff member then that “regardless of the outcome of this internal review... we will clarify”. So he took the opportunity to do so when Mr de Souza filed a related parliamentary question last December.
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Lol you PAP IB izzit defending them so vigorously.

Anyway I work in corp comms before rahs this is standard sanitized bs reply, probably written and vetted by a few different Oxford-grad civil serpent slave PSC scholar kah kias under Vivian.
 
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recently i start seeing ET questioning PS during COP video clips popping up again, making ET looks all bad

taylor swift also cannot save him liao
 
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"Before Oct session, I met you + I told you it was your call. Did need to tell the truth in Parl occur to you?"

When someone tells you 'Did the need to tell the truth occur to you?", does it not suggest that he/she had expected you to tell the truth ('the need to tell the truth')?
 
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I don't see Pritam as leader of oppositions. He only leader of wp. Dunno why ppl call him that.
 
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