An opposition politician, a Facebook user and online website Jom have been asked to put up corrections under the law against fake news, over articles and social media posts that contain false statements about the Ridout Road saga. The Ministry of Law (MinLaw) on Sunday (July 16) said Second Minister for Law Edwin Tong had issued the instructions to the...
An opposition politician, a Facebook user and online website Jom have been asked to put up corrections under the law against fake news, over articles and social media posts that contain false statements about the Ridout Road saga.
In the article and post, they had “falsely stated that the Singapore Land Authority gave the contract to renovate 26 Ridout Road and/or 31 Ridout Road to home interior and renovation company Livspace”. They had also claimed that this was done because the chief executive officer of Livspace is the son of Law Minister K. Shanmugam.
“As with its approach for other State properties, SLA had engaged an external consultant to assess the works needed to be carried out for the two properties,” the statement added.[[nid:637067]]in the rentals of the Ridout Road properties by Mr Shanmugam and Dr Balakrishnan. The matter was also raised in Parliament on July 3, when Mr Shanmugam, Dr Balakrishnan, Mr Tong and Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean gave ministerial statements.
In an article titled Singapore This Week on July 7, Jom had falsely stated that Mr Teo did not respond to questions “concerning the issue of actual or apparent conflicts of interest and possible breach of the Code of Conduct for Ministers beyond replying that it is more important to observe the spirit rather than just the letter of the Code”.
“Mr Teo also said that Mr Shanmugam had recused himself, and this meant that he no longer had any duty in the matter. There could thus be no potential or actual conflict of interest,” said the statement. “The article implies that this sum was unusually large, and omits important information that the works done by SLA were consistent with SLA’s general practice, and were assessed to be necessary in the circumstances, as explained by Mr Tong in Parliament on July 3,” said the statement.
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