SINGAPORE - It is not enough for Singapore to have good institutions; it needs to have good people too. And the role of the president is to scrutinise the people who occupy important positions in the public service, so that they meet the standards Singaporeans expect of those key appointments, said presidential hopeful Ng Kok Song on Saturday. He was...
SINGAPORE - It is not enough for Singapore to have good institutions; it needs to have good people too.
These include Transport Minister S. Iswaran being arrested as part of a corruption probe, and People’s Action Party MP Cheng Li Hui and Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin – as well as two members of the main opposition Workers’ Party, Mr Leon Perera and Ms Nicole Seah – resigning over extramarital affairs.
Mr Ng said that should he become the president, he would inquire more about the background of those who have been put forth to take on public appointments, to satisfy himself that the people who are proposing these appointments have done a thorough job of examining the person’s past and track record.
The 75-year-old former GIC chief investment officer was accompanied by his fiancee, Ms Sybil Lau, 45, at the event at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, where he interacted with felines and cat lovers. The couple have an 18-month-old British shorthair cat named Max.
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