“There is at least a potential conflict of interest if the PM has to decide whether or not to investigate his close cabinet colleagues - people he has personally selected as his trusted comrades and campaigned with for decades,” said Dr Tambyah
SINGAPORE: Dr Paul Tambyah, chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party , wrote in a July 13 Facebook post that the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau , which is the authority for investigating and preventing corruption in Singapore and has been much in the news lately, is “clearly competent, thorough and professional.”
“Perhaps the time has come to set up an independent Ombudsman as Professor Tommy Koh has suggested for many years.Others have also called for forming the Office of an Ombudsman to investigate potential misconduct by public servants,Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that he had instructed Transport Minister S Iswaran to take a leave of absence
PM Lee also wrote that he had given the CPIB Director his concurrence on July 6 and that the Minister is assisting with the probe.
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