Exposed: KAKI BUKIT GRASSROOTS CHAIRMAN IS PRESIDENT OF LICENSED AH LONG ASSOCIATION

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KAKI BUKIT GRASSROOTS CHAIRMAN IS PRESIDENT OF LICENSED AH LONG ASSOCIATION.node-article .field-name-ad-box-in-article {float: left;margin: 15px 15px 10px 0;}.node-article .field-tags{clear: both;}

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12 May 2014 - 6:39pm












The chairman of the Kaki Bukit Citizens' Consultative Committee (CCC), Mr David Poh, who recently highlighted 'faults' of the AHPETC in a community notice, is also the president of the Association of Licensed Money Lenders Singapore.

Mr Poh was responsible for a notice posted in a notice board at Kaki Bukit highlighting the fact that the WP run Aljunied Hougang Punggol-East Town Council (AHPETC) had not nominated any blocks in Kaki Bukit for the Home Improvement Program (HIP).

The notice highlighted that the HIP is a positive HDB initiative to help residents upgrade and maintain their older flats but the AHPETC failed to nominate any flats in Kaki Bukit for the upgrading program so there would be no blocks undergoing upgrading works in the Kaki Bukit estate this year.

The notice, displayed in the public noticeboard is no doubt a way for the CCC to throw mud at AHPETC's management of the estate, attempting to show that the WP didn't have residents' interests in mind.

However, AHPETC clarified their position in a media release on Friday that explained that they had just recently had blocks in Kaki Bukit upgraded and different blocks in other areas of the GRC were nominated instead this year:

"We refer to the Kaki Bukit Citizens Consultative Committee’s letter dated 28 Apr 2014 which has been put up on People’s Association noticeboards in the Kaki Bukit ward of Aljunied GRC. The letter states that the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) did not nominate any blocks in the Kaki Bukit ward of Aljunied GRC for the HDB Home Improvement Programme (HIP) for 2014...
For the years 2012 and 2013, AHPETC nominated various clusters in the Eunos, Hougang, Paya Lebar and Kaki Bukit wards for the HIP program. The Kaki Bukit cluster (Blocks 533 to 536) was eventually selected by HDB for 2013. For 2014, the Town Council nominated clusters in the Bedok Reservoir-Punggol, Serangoon and Paya Lebar wards for the HIP. HDB selected the clusters in Bedok Reservoir-Punggol and Serangoon wards for FY 2014."

http://www.ahpetc.sg/spreading-the-benefits-of-hip/

In fact, AHPETC has not overlooked the nomination of flats as suggested by David Poh from Kaki Bukit CCC, instead they have just been nominating in different areas in the interest of fairness.

This is not the first time that certain individuals have stirred trouble with AHPETC in Kaki Bukit. In fact, the whole Hawker Centre Cleaning Saga last year was also a dispute in Kaki Bukit.
Kaki Bukit itself was only included into Aljunied GRC just before 2011. Prior to that, it was part of Marine Parade GRC.

Maybe Mr David Poh is just bitter as he used to serve on the Executive Committee of Marine Parade Town council [Link] but was effectively demoted to a grassroots leader when the estate was converted to Aljunied and lost to the opposition.

Mr David Poh is currently the president of the Money Lender's Association of Singapore, an association which has had its own fair share of complaints about harassing tactics being used to recover money.
Is this new action of mudslinging just another form of harassment toward the WP-run AHPETC?


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