It looks like in one failure after another the minister always gets
away from responsibility and always fails to preempt or foresee
problems at his level. By the time project is underway and tender
already called and contracts entered into it is too late to ask
various parties to be answerable as they will push from one party
to another.
Our leaders are the world's best and are being paid the world's
highest salaries. Citizens now expect them to be answerable for
such fiascos from Hotel New World to today. They should not depend
on courts or legal process alone to look after our safety. It will
be ridiculous to continue to short-change the taxpayers and
citizens in this manner by pushing everything to someone else. They
must exercise responsibility of high office to prevent some more
negligence with marine clay and dewatering. Go and look at Ubi and
Paya Lebar for more cases of subsidence to see what I mean.
Minister simply has to understand how to preempt and prevent
problems and major collapses in a more proactive manner at the
start not let the problems occur and then try to find out who are
guilty by scapegoat method. If he is still insistent on pushing to
contractors or employees, then he is not worth millions of
salaries.[/b]
Please, how can we trouble our beloved ministers? They are
already very busy attending all the RC and PA community centers'
dinners and thinking of more ways to make money (errm for singapore
that is).
You may argue that when such fiasco happened in the west, the CEO
will take responsiblity and quit. But it is different in singapore.
We have our own proud rules - our beloved leaders should be well
protected.
