He's donating Progress funds to opposition
wards
May 11, 2006
The Straits Times
I READ with interest the letters, 'Fix a more urgent need: Lifts in
opposition wards' and 'Make the Progress gular affair' (ST, May
9).
I, too, hope that the Government will make the Progress Package a
regular affair. However, while I am pleased to have received the
recent payout, I can't help but feel that the money could have been
put to better use.
As long as there is a more deserving need, the allocation of state
money should be to that need first.
The people in Potong Pasir and Hougang deserve to have their lifts
stop at every floor more than I deserve my payout. I will therefore
be donating my payout to the respective town councils for their
upgrading needs.
The multi-million-dollar upgrading promised to the two opposition
wards if the PAP had won imply that these wards are due for
upgrading within the next five years. I hope the Government will
still make the funds available to the two wards.
This is one of the ways the Government can improve its standing
with the 33 per cent of voters who did not vote for the PAP. This
way, the PAP may be able to win back some votes from the opposition
in the next general election.
Yeo Kee Chiang
