PM Lee to PAP MPs: Declare to me your business interests for your own ‘protection’
May 30th, 2011 | 
Author: In most First World countries, Member of Parliaments and Ministers are expected to declare their salaries, assets and business interests to the public. Even the Malaysian state of Penang enacted a Freedom of Information Act last year requesting its state officials to do so.
One would expect Singapore which is supposedly the third least corrupted nation in the world to demand more transparency from its elected representives, but it is hardly so.
In a letter on ‘Rules of Prudence for PAP MPs’, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong only requested them to declare such important personal and financial information only to him:
“For your own protection, every MP should disclose to me, in confidence, your business and professional interests, your present employment and monthly pay, all retainers and fees that you are receiving, and whether your job requires you to get in touch with officers of Government Ministries or statutory boards on behalf of employers or clients.”
PM Lee’s comments sparked a massive outroar among netizens who questioned why he did not ask the PAP MPs to reveal the information online as in other countries.
Prithpal Singh wrote:
“Why only to the PM? It shd also be on the inetrnet for all to view . Waht have they got to hide? Are they embarassed by their riches?”
Lawrence Tay concurred:
“for our protection….u should also tell the people of singapore… if you have not done anything you should not have been ashamed of..u have nothing to hide.”
Gabriel Goh added:
“First and forth-most, why protection is deemed necessary and only disclosed to PM, where the fact is, public-servant should be honest enough to disclose to public. I see no logic to have one person knowing when the pay is drawn from public….
There should not be a limit as it should be their own capabilities to be in a board of directors, however how do we quantify that the effort and time spend being an MP is as effective if not better than personal businesses?
For one thing is that we do not know how well MP performed and there is not KPI or MBS standards for MPs, hell we don’t even know if he has been doing any work except for meet-the people-session, even in this session, how well do they address the issue raised, and do they even bothered to study the case individually or have their grassroots people to do the jobs…Yes, spouses and relatives should not be holding appointments that will not be in the interest of the public.”
The PAP regime has always boasted of its MPs as being men and women of ‘high morals and integrity’. If this is indeed so, why are they so afraid of declaring their salaries, assets and business interests to entire Singapore?
Posted in Editorial
Sigh! Never ending.
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As public servants are expected and required to serve the people it is mandatory that the President, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Members and all the Parliamentarians should declare their private and personal assets(including their immediate family) to the public upon taking office, and yearly and at time of leaving the office.
There shouldn’t be anything secretive about it. Are public servants hiding anything from the people? Is so then quit and you don’t have any problem!
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I am so surprised many more Singaporeans do not die of shame when confronted by foreigners on our local polity.
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Instead of increasing NCMP numbers in parliament and have no power to do much except making “noise” in the house. This is a more grave problem facing Singapore parliamentary. When we have no transparency or confidence in the intentions of every member of parliament. Thanks to TRE else I have no idea these people have so much personal interest other than the interest of Singapore at heart.
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Why are they serving as PART timer while still holding on to their existing job, ain’t taxpayer’s paid them for FULL time job?
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Pigs will fly across the Parliament House if these PAP MPs ever reveal all their business dealings to the public..
Where is the transparency Mr Prime Minister..???
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What do you expect? PAP have always treated Singaporeans like growing mushrooms – “kept in the dark and fed a lot of shit”.
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Conflict of interest at it’s best and now got such things as ” for your OWN interest” firstly these MPs should be exposed ,sacked and jailed! CPIB should take over the investigation and include WP elected MPs in their independent enquiry , this is one of the main reasons why singaporeans are poorer while the rich get richer
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Dear PM Lee
Start with yourself and family, including your dad and your mum) to publicly declare ALL your assets!!
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I think it is only common sense; If you are upright, you will want to disclose to the public as a public servant. Have a nice day. Keep cool.
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Public servants in every developed countries and even developing countries have to declare their income and assets TO THE PUBLIC. Singapore seems to be the exception.
What are they trying to hide?
Now we know they have been dishonest. That is why they need to be repressive on anyone who challenges them or who questions too much.
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Singapore PAP MPs are all “LEGALLY” corrupt…
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Is LHL urging all MP to declare their wealth and business interest to HIM ONLY, for protecting themselves UNDER HIS PROTECTION?
REGRESS!!!
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The PM should ask all MPs to declare their assets, incomes and business interest to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) for monitoring if they have abused their position to accumulate their ill-gotten money. The declaration should include their spouse and immediately family members, as they may hide their ill-gotten under the name of their family members.
What about PM himself and his father (LKY), they also needed to declare their assets and wealth kept in Singapore and any other overseas banking institution if he really has the determination to display more transprency in the Government sector.
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Change ? Dream on.
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LHL, ain’t you want to ask for feedbacks and will listen to the Singaporeans.
Good, then listen, we want a transparent govt.
Start with you, LHL: why don’t you and your family start to public declare all your LEE’s family assets and involvement with govt / pte organisations before we talk about your MPs and MInisters.
PUBLIC DECLARE , PUBLIC DECLARE
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IS THIS REAL?????????? DID HE REALLY SAY THIS???? CAN ANYONE POINT TO THE SOURCE????
I’M SOOOOOOO…. (ADJECTIVES…) PERTURBED BY THIS AS ALL CIVIL SERVANTS AND STAT BOARD EMPLOYEES ARE REQUIRED TO DECLARE ALL ASSETS, INVESTMENTS, OTHER EMPLOYMENTS, PROFITS, ETC, ETC. ANNUALLY W/O FAIL. I’M SOOO…. (ADJECTIVES) PERTURBED THAT THE TOP BRASS DIDN’T HAVE TO!! I MEAN – WTH!! THIS IS SO CLEARLY AN INJUSTICE! AND YES, WHY ONLY DECLARE TO THE PM? SINCE MPS AND MINISTERS BELONG TO PMO’S UMBRELLA, THEN PMO SHOULD HAVE THIS INFO, NOT JUST THE PM. AND WHY ‘DECLARE IN CONFIDENCE’? ALL CIVIL SERVANTS ARE MADE TO FILL OUT A FORM (IN THE PAST) AND DO IT ONLINE NOW.
LOOKS LIKE PM IS SO HYPED ABOUT PUTTING UP A RA-RA SHOW HE FORGOT WHAT THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND HAVE BEEN DOING. NOT JUST ‘THE PEOPLE’, ‘HIS PEOPLE – THE CIVIL SERVANTS’. HELLO: PM’S ADVISERS – HAVE YOU BEEN SLEEPING?? WHAT KIND OF ADVICE HAVE YOU BEEN GIVING OUR PM??
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Accountability and transperancy of yours and family’s assets be
declared to the general public, first.
You have to lead by example and the rest will follow.
We too, would like to know what counter measures, should you decide to take for those corrupt MPs! Agree? No?
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Mike – your 2nd part is sooo damn true!
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If you are in the Public Service, then you owe the Public a Service. Why hide?
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wayang or for real, pm lhl?
we shall see.
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cases involving less than $1 million – 5 years jail.
over $1 million but less than $10 million – 10 years jail.
over &10 million life imprisonment.
plus 10 strokes of the rotan.
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Our Prime Millionaire/Pilot is still flying on auto-pilot.
He thought he got rid of the geriatric autopilot system he had been using by retiring the old equipment.
Unfortunately, his brain is still on auto-Pilot.
The statement:
““For your own protection, every MP should disclose to me,…..”
Why are you offering protection for people who possibly may have done wrong?
Surely you should be protecting your own citizens instead.
An MP should know what is right and what is wrong.
Also it’s very clear we have a lot of part-timers as MPs.
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PAP offers wealth, fame and power….
Got it?
Ha ha ha!
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Want PAP fat cats to tell us what are they ‘eating’ everyday?
Not possible….stop dreaming!
Ha ha ha!
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Half cooked measure, to declare to PM only, is this the measure to appease the people ?
PM also short of saying, what if the MP “forgot” to declare ? Will he be disciplined, booted out of what ? Why we should ask this is because lately, there have been too many incidents where MP conduct was not upright, all they did was to apologize or so-called take responsibility and then no consequence..
Can PM look into this loop-holes… MP are smart enough to take advantage of half-cooked measures.
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on first suspicion,file a police report for cpib to follow up and seize their assets.
the rest, question their auditors for deatails..
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The list should be access to the public….
Estate duty abolished only have 2 benefits:
1) Help the rich to pay less tax….
2) Help the rich to keep their assets from being known…
Why increase GST and abolish Estate duty? You guess……
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““For your own protection, every MP should disclose to me,…..” ???
PM , why MP need to disclose to you and you only ?
you own this country ? MP should disclose their business interest to public not you !
btw , you mean you’ll “protect” those MPs who disclose to you their business interest ? something wrong somewhere ? are you sending a message to them : “tell me and i will protect you” ?
i’m confuse …
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protect? liddat, if cannot win them, either join them or leave?
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The Lee family must first reveal what they have accumulated during their tenure. Unfortunately the scrapping of estate duty just before the death of Mrs Lee was a missed opportunity for them to reveal their wealth.
They must lead from the front so the other MPs will follow.
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Should be disclosed to the President, nobody else!!!
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With all due respect PM Lee, may I just ask:
“Are you sure u one person can handle all the work load? （ I mean one tin tin case already we wait long long). Why don’t we share the burden with u, disclose the info to us. We will help u to see any corruption, if anyone is found guilty… Sack samaliya, out he goes! Swee bo?”
Towards A First Class Citizenship, Steady Poon Pee Pee!
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This can mean the PM is grossly upset by the fact that MPs have business interests that he is unaware of.
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i agree with many that such informations should be make avaible online for public to see.
however rich they are aside, we should focus on what they can do for us as politicans. Bill Cliton was a sex addict, but he was a damn good president dealing with economic issues.
Keey things is go know more about the MP in your area, see he or she in action…make sure u vote wisely GE2016
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I think we should be patient with these stuffs, because nothing could be changed just overnight. It seem like PM Lee is trying to change the interior of PAP and the path he has chosen is a tough one expecially when he have to “smith with lightning” onto his followers, I would expect a few “char bodies” laying around while he walk down this path. Also anything we say here also no use, we no choice have to see him perform for the next 5 years, let sit back, watch and listen till 2016
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PM do not want his MPs to declare their assets to the public as this would ultimately comes to their turn to do so, and of cos there is no way they would want their family assets to be disclosed, not even TH/GIC is transparent till today.
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More rhetoric and another PR exercise perhaps,Mr. Prime Minister?
It is obvious that some of your so call handpicked MPs and Ministers are poor choices to begin with, otherwise you would not be issuing your “RULES OF PRUDENCE” guidelines.
You are just wasting our time with more justification and guidelines just like you did with the Million Dollars salaries for your Ministers for having talented people in your cabinet – a cut above the rest, comparable to the private sector?
Please do a better job and all the explanation would not be necessary, thank you.
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It is well known to the public that Lion City have no laws of privacy as oppose to e.g. U.S. or Europe. Yet all these public servants have privacy law over themselves.
Another case of double standards.
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PM LEE,
WHEN YOU POINT ONE FINGER AT OTHERS,YOU ARE POINTING 3 FINGERS AT YOURSELF.
EVERY PRESENT OR PAST MINISTERS,SM,MM,MPS shd DECLARE their ASSETs AND INTERESTs.
LETS START WITH YOU 1ST.
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Oii Lee H Loong, ask your wife to declare how how she’s fleecing Singaporeans every year. Declare it to public so all Singaporeans know how much your wife’s been fleecing Singaporeans.
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Should be disclosed to Singaporeans, and everybody else.
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Nice say, once he starts this we will not be the only one pointing fingers at him. We people on the ground and all his followers will start to point fingers at him. Hope he realise what he is doing and we people on the ground also should understand what he is doing. For me it’s a bold move by him toward the PAP administration, because not only he will be losing support for all his followers, and has also raise a sensitive issue for the public to attack on.
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Are they here to serve or for monetary gains?
Very easy to tell.
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As usual, wayang wayang. True transparency starts with the top down approach. Playing this game of “you tell me your secrets and I will not tell anyone ” is only a game of make believe. PM Lee who are you kidding. We Singaporeans are not daft and we are little kids.
True transparency also must expose how losses by Themasek Holdings and GIC were incurred and why YOG budget was overshot and overspent.
Until true transparency is made known, it will be just empty talk and no concrete action. Seeing is believing and the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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Lead By Example. If u want your MP’s, Ministers to declare their business/professional interest or assets, it must start with the Lee family, otherwise, I’m sure you’ll lose your credibility and there will be unhappiness within your ranks about your leadership style.
Whilst it is only right that you seem to have perhaps spotted a critical gap, big question is why do it half baked by declaring to YOU only ? This is not the professional way of doing things and definitely lacking in transparency.
Guess internet rumors may be opening your eyes to some issues propagating about past and present cabinet. Are rumors on Yeo CT, 1st woman minister, JTC, Aljunied and other Town Councils conflict of interest accurate ? These r some eg why all of us want issues to be transparent instead of leaving the grapevine to propagate rightly or wrongly.
What is surprising in the communication style is just to keep quiet and hope things will just quieten down. Another example is TPL cooling day fiasco. What’s the conclusion ?
Yeo Cheow Tong
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even china now also make sure all their official not to engage in business or sideline.
if found , they have to declare , else they will be lockup.
so a communist country do this , so why republic of singapore don do that???
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Rightly, MPs’ assets shd be declared publicly, not just to PM. PM alone shd not be privy to MPs’ assets as this wld mean -
1. PM and his family are above such assets declaration.
2. Except for PM, no one is wiser as to the scope and extent of wrongdoing, if any, by the MP concerned in his/her acquisition of his/her declared assets.
3. A MP’s declaration of his/her assets is for public scrutiny, not for PM’s umbrella protection.
4. PM is in no position to verify the truth of a MP’s declaration, unlike the CPIB, CAD or MAS that are better equipped for such declarations. A public declaration of assets wld make it harder and almost impossible for the MP to hide his/her assets.
5. A public declaration is open and transparent and it wld absolve the PM of any blame and/or responsibility shd the declaration turn out to be incomplete or erroneous.
6. A public declaration wld be seen as a genuine and sincere move by PM to open a new chapter of transparency in our history under his stewardship which cld go down otherwise in history as tainted by hidden agendas and irregular practices for selfish and personal wealth.
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i FIND THIS APPROACH AMUSING, i AM NOT SURE WHETHER THIS COMES FROM LHL OR MENTOR?
FROM THIS EXERCISE WE CAN TELL HOW SMART THE MP AND MINISTERS ARE?
BY REVIEWING IT, IF THEY ARE CLEAN AND WELL ABOVE THEN IT IS OK, BUT IF THERE ARE FISHY THINGS GOING ON, THEN THEY WILL LIKELY BE SLAVE THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES UNLESS THEY QUIT NOW.
lET SEE HOW IT GOES AND BY 2016 YOU WILL DEFINITELY TELL WHO GOT SUCK INTO IT
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All elected officials must declare their total income to the public.
Elected officials are all PUBLIC PROPERTIES. If you don’t want to declare your incomes and assets to us, go hide yourself in the private sector.
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I truly hope that the MPs from WP come forward to declare publicly their salaries, assets, business interests to the public. This will set a precedent to accountability, transparency and winning the trust of Singaporean.
Since the PAP can’t do what they preach,Please fulfill our dream before the PAP pre-empt it again.
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how come there are two or more standareds in this country
civil servants every year got to declare asset
ministers and MP are ???????
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Napoleon said:
“The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!”
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Folks,
Im pretty sure all Ministers and MPs have alot of hidden assets. We must send in a team of internationally judges, lawyers, auditors , politicians officers, to force all singapore idiots ministers and mps to open their book of rich corrupted assests which they have stolen it from us taxpayers’ for so long !
No mercy for this bunch of crooks and theives ! Sezie all their assest and we singaporeans divide among ourselves in cash beos it belongs to us in the first place ! Then send all this idiots ministers and mps to international stage and announced their corrupted ways and send them to the gallows and hanged them to death, including their families , relatives too !!!! Spare no mercy to your enemies !!!!!!!!
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There seem to be a good number of Shows Now Showing. First was the simultaneous screenings of ‘Tears of a Minister &’The Grand Apology’ shown just before the Polls. With the introduction of more military men came “The Gang that couldn’t Shoot Straight’.
Then came ‘We will Listen’ immediately after. Followed by ‘Dinosaurs Are Leaving My Cabinet’.
Akan Datang – ‘Family Assets’ ??
Boy….they sure know how to make some good Wayangs… LoL
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Hello PM Lee,
In para 35, you mentioned that “For your own protection, every MP should disclose to me, in confidence, your business and professional interests, your present employment and monthly pay….”.
What good is it to disclose to you when all of you are in the same CAHOOT team?
We want you and your clowns to declare all your earnings, assets, ownership in companies/or relation to friends/relative etc to the PUBLIC. This is not for your protection. Why you need protection? For what?
We, the public wants disclosure to ensure you and your CAHOOT team is not into blatant corruption!
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They are afraid to honestly declare their net worth openly.
Do not be surprised that all our present and recent past Ministers have accumulated $50m or $100m most of which probably stashed away in some safer havens should Singapore fall apart.
They have been stretching our fabric to the limit and do not be surprised they have made contingency plans in case Singapre tears apart.
They are supposed to improve our lives. But what is life like for the average Singaporean?
They have been saying they have done well. Anyone disagree?
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Wayang again… I m so tired of it… puke!
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In China:
“温家宝强调，要把反腐倡廉建设摆在重要位置。各级领导干部特别是高级干部要坚决执行中央关于报告个人经济和财产，包括收入、住房、投资，以及配偶子女从业等重大事项的规定，并自觉接受纪检部门的监督。”
The practice has already been adopted by some provinces and counties. For example in January 2009, Ci Xi city of the prosperous coastal province of China revealed the income and assets of some 700 public officials to the public…
In Taiwan:
馬政府在新政府成立不到三個月（2008年8月1日）即成立『中央廉政委員會』，並參酌《聯合國反腐敗公約》及國際透明組織「國家廉政體系」的概念，重新打造我國廉政藍圖，訂頒《國家廉政建設行動方案》，行動方案包括八大項目，第一：加強防貪肅貪、一定層級公務員要申報財產、執法者有利益衝突時必須迴避
In Singapore:
Singapore leaders kept boasting about themselves being the most “honest, honorable and incorruptible gentlemen” in the world, but to this very day, they have yet to reveal their personal wealth and assets to the public as is the common practice among many first world countries.
I dun know what to say…
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If you have not earned them illegally, why are you afraid to declare?
You can only deduce that they must have earned them in a less than honorable way or received (pay themselves) more than they have let us know.
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Perhaps PM might want to share why he is getting MP’s, Ministers to declare only to himself. This half baked approach n lack of transparency, will only lead to more speculation as to what is the hidden agenda behind.
Can we trust PM when he can even share that MBT, WKS n RL all actually indicated they wanted to step down even b4 the elections but he graciously accepted their resignations only after ? What abt YCT n wife being bought out ? How about the nonsense on Goodyear stepping down unexpectedly ? Lots of bad rumors… Bottom line, PAP can simply share so n so stepping down due to whatever crap n no one actually knows the real reason/s to protect the party high integrity. We read quite a lot through internet and assume it is accurate as PAP don’t bother to respond or contradict anyway.
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You see how quick Teo Chee Hean was to come out to defend the public misconceptions about one aspect of the Ministers’ pensions which he said was not true. Why is he keeping quiet on the other aspects of their pensions like exactly what or exactly how much they get?
Why does Teo CH not come out to defend themselves about the declaration this time? If they were not ill-gotten gains, why is he afraid to speak out?
Now we realize they must be a bunch of crooks who use threats and intimidations on those who challenge them to keep themselves in power to enrich themselves. Don’t tell us you have done well. Done well for whom? Not for us your average citizen. Most of us are struggling.
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Open Sesame!!! All to be revealed. Can of worms here, there and every where. To the left and to the right. Skeletons hanging in the cupboards. Lo and behold, all to be made known or only sacrifical lambs to the slaughtered just to appease a few ? Wayang Wayang very shiok and nice. But Sink-a-pooreans are not daft where truth is concerned.
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What is the reason that PM wants his MP’s, Ministers to declare only to himself and ‘for their own protection’? What does the last part mean ?
Is it so that he can communicate whatever reason/s later that so n so has resigned due to whatever crap reason that he so choose to explain ? PM mentioned that WKS, MBT n RL all informed him their decisions to step down BEFORE the elections. Was he being honest with us ?
Is this unorthodox approach to protect the integrity of the party so that any corruption will not be exposed openly but to be ‘managed out’ quietly with lies and deceit ? Rumors on internet especially in regards to YCT case has never been explained by ruling party.
In conclusion, good that PM identified a critical concern but pls ensure transparency n no hidden agenda. Proper Action Speaks Louder Than Words !
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Singapore is really the only most unique country in the whole world where all the politicians in PAP are corrupted politicians. Never heard in the whole world with a house full packed with 100 percent corruption!
Really only singapore ! Very uniquely ! This is all done by that evil monster LKY !
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They rewards themselves as the highest paid public servants in the world, they are entitled “dignity” to stand tall, while we the citizens have to “bow with shame” that we are their incapitated slaves.
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They have become filthy rich so it will be embarrassing if they have to declare what they have accumulated over the years taken from the tax payers.
They are afraid to declare what they took because the citizens did not give it to them. They simply dipped their hands into it and took it. That was why they have been hiding it from us how much they have taken.
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Assets don’t have to be held by the minister personally, can be held by wife, parents, children….
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It was disconcerting that when MM challenged Chiam See Tong to declare his assets, Chiam immediately fell silent undoubtedly as he (Chiam) must hv something to hide that MM knew but we don’t. Maybe Chiam wld want to explain his reluctance to publicly declare his assets to clarify his stand. We cannot ask PAP MPs to declare their assets when the Opp members are unwilling to do so.
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Dear Moderator,
As I visit ur site regularly, pl do not alert me on new posts as u’re cluttering up my in-box. Thanks.
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i think PM need to set example and declare his assets, business interests etc. he is probably the guy with lots of $$$.
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So who shall guard the guardians???
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Singapore government is run like a private or listed company. its main interests is to enrich its own company interests but of course it has its duty to serve the people of Singapore.
Its key management team includes the PM, Ministers, MPs etc enjoyed the biggest rewards (salaries, perks, indirect income, benefits etc) while the majority public servants are also getting but get much less, peanuts compared to what the management team gets…
Hence since its run like a company, in terms of jobs employment, domestic demand, economy growth etc, it doesn’t care if all these jobs goes to Singaporeans or not, it only cares that more jobs are created, more demands are created, more businesses are created so that this in turn gives more taxes and revenue to the company. It doesn’t care if these benefits to local Singaporeans or not.
So my fellow Singaporeans, if you have seen through what PAP is doing for last 10-20 years, its time for us to wake up and vote for a better government. I think WP is growing and will become a formidable force to change the government in the years to come.
The recent GE election results showed that people wants change to the government and if PM Lee regime doesn’t change its entire attitude and policy in running the country to serve to the best interests of Singaporeans, soon PAP will lose more grounds in years to come!
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It should start with the PM and his ministers.
They must declare publicly their interests that may conflict with the policies and the interests of citizens.
For instance, the property issue is close to the heart of the citizens.
The PM and his ministers should declare how many Singapore properties they (and their families)own, buy and sell in the last 10 years.
This is to provide transparency that their policies of supporting if not pushing up the already high property prices do not conflict with their personal investments and interests.
This is not to intrude into their privacy but to set the moral high ground for them and for them to consider how many properties each should own when many Singaporeans cannot afford (even if they want to borrow on a 30-year loan) or have to wait for many years for a subsidized flat.
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if the ministers are req to declare to PM, to whom the PM should declare to? major loophole!
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