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SINGAPORE: Aljunied-Hougang (AHTC) former president of the city council, Sylvia Lim, "misled everyone" and lied that the city council needed to modernize its own computer system because a computer company had terminated the system used at the time in 2011. Lawyer Davinder Singh was charged Thursday (October 18).
Singh, the lawyer representing Pasir Ris-Punggol City Council in a civil suit against the Workers' Party deputies, Mrs Lim, MM. Pritam Singh and Low Thia Khiang about the failing governance of the AHTC, said that Ms. Lim was letting everyone believe that Computer Action Action Corporation (AIM) withdrew its City Council Management System (TCMS ) in 2011.
AIM gave notice of termination on June 22, 2011, the High Court said Thursday. However, preparations for the extension of Hougang City Council's existing software to fit the wider Aljunied and Hougang constituencies combined began long before, he said.
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The defense presented by Ms. Lim and her other defendants is based on the fact that the actions they took – the establishment of the FMSS management officer and the improvement of the computer system – were in the best interest of the residents, with the city council supposedly left without a management agent and computer system after WP won Aljunied GRC in the 2011 general election.
However, Mr. Singh mentioned e-mails and letters stating that the city council had begun upgrading its computer system before AIM terminated it.
One of these letters dated May 13, 2011, dated May 13, 2011, came from Ms. How Weng Fan, Secretary of Hougang City Council, on the hiring of a computer vendor.
Mr. Singh said: "In other words, before May 13, the date this letter was sent, it had already been decided that the computer vendor of the city of Hougang would be invited to to upgrade the computer system, is not it? "
"It could have been the 13th itself, but I agree that it should happen before the letter is sent," said Ms. Lim.
She stated that she and her colleagues were concerned that AIM would terminate her contract because of her past experience.
Mr. Singh replied that these concerns were not in any email. He also noted that AIM had extended its services to AHTC until August 31, 2011, at the request of City Council, after the initial termination date of August 1.
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MS LIM "ALL MISLE": Mr. SINGH
Mr. Singh also accused Ms. Lim of lying in her affidavit, in which she stated that Mr. Jeffrey Chua, General Manager of CPG and General Manager of Aljunied City Council, had informed in early June 2011 the chairman of the group of Work and Mrs. How SMTC.
"I had the impression that Jeffrey had warned us so that we could make the necessary preparations," Ms. Lim wrote in her affidavit. "In these circumstances, AHTC initiated urgent preparations for the withdrawal of the TCMS by scaling up the Soug Hougang software."
Mr. Singh said: "It's a false impression, is not it?" You suggest that you started scaling up after Jeffrey told you that the company was not going to be on the top scale. AIM was going to withdraw? Yes or No? By saying that the AHTC had started the urgent preparations for the withdrawal of the TCMS by increasing the size of the software after Jeffrey gave Mrs. How the warning, that is not true. "
Ms. Lim denied the accusation, saying some preparatory work would have started in anticipation of TCMS's withdrawal.
Mr. Singh also reviewed an excerpt from Ms. Lim's speech to Parliament in February 2015. Ms. Lim was responding to Khaw Boon Wan, then Minister of National Development, who had referred to the Auditor General's report on the 39, audit of Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol. East City Council (AHPETC). The report found that AHPETC's financial and accounting systems presented, among other things, "gaps".
In her response to Parliament, Ms. Lim said: "For the first management agent services contract in 2011, it was triggered when the managing agent in place, CPG Facilities Management, asked for be released from his contract with the city council for commercial reasons.It was urgent to set up a computer system because of the end of the old system used. "
Addressing Ms. Lim, Mr. Singh said, "You see the words" because of "Ms. Lim, in your defense, you gave the impression that it was because the AIM had ended its obligations, which forced AHTC to upgrade its computer system.
"In Parliament, you gave the same impression to the members of your municipal council, in the report and in the discussions, you also continued to give this impression.
"In all the cases I showed you, you led the councilors, the court, the Parliament and the public to believe that it was because AIM had terminated its obligations, which the AHTC did not have. no choice to enhance. And so has been put in a difficult position with regard to his collections. Correct?"
Ms. Lim agreed.
"And as we know from the documents, it was a false impression," Singh continued. "It was deliberately and deliberately perpetuated by you because you knew the facts."
"I do not agree," Ms. Lim said.
Singh said he "misled everyone". You gave them the wrong impression, including in Parliament in this passage that I read, that the AIM had come to an end and that we needed to move up a gear. You lied".
"I do not agree," said Ms. Lim.
The trial resumes on Friday with Ms. Lim returning to the bar.
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