TR EMERITUS

The latest that I have read on CNA online this morning is that 3 former directors who were linked to Fullerton Healthcare brand and the former Aon Singapore CEO were charged for corruption.

These days, the word 'Corruption' seems like a sexy and fashionable word. I applaud CPIB again for doing an outstanding job but I will share with fellow netizens some of my thoughts too.

In recent memory, we had the Keppel Offshore and Marine corruption case in which it was convicted in a US court, pleaded guilty and was fined more than USD400 millions but Singaporeans were told by pap ministar Indranee Rajah that the pap government doesn't possess enough evidence to pursue the case in Singapore lalala.., the dishonourable pap ministar S. Iswaran and Ong Beng Seng case, the National Library Board assistant director, Adrian Chan and 10 others corruption case and now, the Fullerton Healthcare case.

Never in all the decades under the premiership of the late LKY had corruption cases came so fast and furious. It is so sad and shameful to remember him and his outstanding governance and then compare them with the situation now. I saddens me much to see just how much we have gone down under lhl.

I can't help but ask why. Seriously Why? My thoughts are as follows.

I ask myself. If I have corrupt intentions on my mind and looking at the outcome for the senior executives at Keppel Offshore despite their US conviction, I may conclude that it may be worth my while or I may be as lucky as them.

Next, for the rest and if I were anyone of them, I may conclude that the worse that can happen to me is still worth the risks and rewards that I am taking on.

Like the saying goes, when the tiger is not in the jungle, the monkeys will come out to play. I might add that when the tiger is perceived to be old, weak, sick, ineffective, useless, sleeping even, similarly more and more monkeys will come out to play and play uninhibitedly.

I consider pap ministars had their priorities wrong and it scares me. As a matter of priority, instead of putting in serious efforts and severe legislations on discouraging corrupt practices and tightening laws on corruption, they argued and worked on laws to search people and places without warrants etc. Mine, mine. I am lost for words.

Think.

Simon Lim

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