Despite the Worker's Party leadership's best efforts to deflect, delay, obstruct and remain unaccountable for the mess that is the AHPTEC/AHTC Accounts, the day of reckoning has arrived.
Here's a brief recap to how things have reached this stage.
4 Nov 2016: HDB asks Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC), to take steps to recover improper payments that it made.
17 Feb 2017: Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) appoints an independent panel to review the findings of a KPMG report that said the towncouncil had "serious flaws" in governance and made improper payments amounting to millions of dollars to third parties. After consultation with HDB, the three people who were appointed are panel chairman Philip Jeyaretnam SC, and members Mr N Sreenivasan SC and Mr Ong Pang Thye (managing partner of KPMG LLP).
So what will happen next?
Will the implicated WP MPs do the honorable thing and resign? Thereby triggering off a By-Election?
Will there be criminal charges brought against those involved? And when that happens, will
there be a By-Election since the person(s) may be disqualified as an MP upon
conviction. (See Disqualifications
for membership of Parliament).
Is this the beginning of the end for the Worker's Party? Will this end the Worker's Party dominance as Singapore's premier Opposition Party?
Will Chee Soon Juan jump in at this golden opportunity to sink WP to further his own (hopeless) ambition to be elected as an MP?
Or will the WP MPs simply deny, deflect, play the victim card and continue to disavow any responsibility for the mess that THEY created THEMSELVES?
And people say that Singapore politics is boring.
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