Lately, the presidential motorcade has been seen leaving President Halimah’s Yishun home very early in the morning. Not that she is trying to avoid morning traffic jams along the congested CTE, but actually arriving very early at Istana to review all the books left behind by her predecessors, perhaps untouched.
Some online commentators have remarked that she has limited knowledge of finance, unlike the other two candidates who did not qualify. They were self-made millionaires, through sheer hard work and business acumen, each creating $200 million companies. Unfortunately, the select committee found these men unqualified to become an Elected President because they had not managed a corporation worth $500 million.
One could only assume that our good president has commenced inspecting the books to ascertain the size of our reserves. The actual quantum is still a matter of conjecture – no body seems to know.
Despite being forewarned by PAP Ministers and Accountant General that it would take about 52 years to complete stock-taking billions of reserves parked in Temasek and GIC, she is determined to prove her critics wrong, by opening up the dusty books.
On the contrary, PAP believes she has contributed outstandingly in her previous role as speaker and best suited to hold the second key to billions of reserves, or even a trillion.
I’m afraid much of our reserves has already been flushed down the tube or are invested in other moribund assets aboard. One thing is for sure, Halimah’s stock-take may take 52 years to account for what is gone and whatever is left is only known to a select few.
SDP’s calls to convene a Commission of Inquiry has fallen to deaf years. As good Singapore citizens, let’s do our part to help her to fast track her stock-take.
I have compiled a list based on information that is publicly available. It’s not an exhaustive list, but a good start. Our losses runs in billions.
Here are some of the investments President Halimah should review when taking over:
| Loss in Investment Portfolios during Prata and KFC man as Presidents | Losses (USD) | |
| 1 | Temasek Holding loss in Barclays (£850 Million) | $1.2 billion |
| 2 | Temasek Holding loss in Merill Lynch | $3 Billion |
| 3 | GIC loss in Selling UBS stake | $4 Billion |
| 4 | GIC’s and Temasek’s investee company Xiaomi lost $40 billion in value in 18 Months (not reported by GIC) | undisclosed |
| ….99 | Etc . etc… | |
| Total | $?? billions |
Note: All amounts above were reported by various credible global news agencies, but blackout by Government controlled CNA and ST Times.
Roger Kok
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That’s why the PAP regime had her installed…..
I had a funny feeling when I start looking at the Presidents around…
Lost money in the good-for-nothing politicians…….paid as salary
Oscar for best performance in a foreign government?
Huge money were lost in buying telecommunication companies in both thailand and Indonesia. ..and were slap with hafty fines of billion in dollars…
Please them, same boat.
Artifical Intelligent with deep learning capability wont take so long to caculate.
烂花瓶一个！
这哪是花瓶，简直土锅一个。还是缺角的。太丑了。
穿上龙袍，不像太子
这边厢的窝囊土番，还沾沾自喜。 木偶当是台柱，连自己的语文都没有。
真是猪八戒照镜。
..back to work lah, just wait another 5 yrs lah, talk talk washing time..
It’s 6 years for president. Tax free too. Nathan fully enjoyed his 2 terms of 22 years before the salary cut. Best job in the world.
That’s why LHL have to unscrupulously manipulate the reserved presidential election, as having Tan Cheng Bock would means their reputation will be totally ruined and destroyed! PAPigs!
As a PAP crony, she wouldn’t disclose the massive losses. This is why LHL disqualifies other potential candidates less those resposnsible are revealed and have to be held accountable.
I don’t think she is informed of the reserves. OTC was bold enough to ask for it but was denied.
For almost 18 years, there was nothing from Nathan & KFC, can this unknown race aunty who can’t even make a simple decision where she supposed to stay able to do it ?
I don’t think she will rock the $1.54million boat…
Xiaomi ?? Must be very secretly done ..
Only in Singapore.
Where unfettered freedom for the PAP government leads to :
* a clownish and truly unqualified president (s)elect
* laws that are arbitrarily made and tweaked at their pleasure
* billions n trillions lost through the PAP government’s GIC and Temasek
* nobody being held accountable
Alamat 2008 2 Town Councils lost more than $10 mil in collapse of Lehman!
Hahaha, now I know why the Regime amended the constitution. The majority in power are very smart in putting the blame of losses on a minority’s elected President.
Can ask her to attend finance course.
To keep her mouths shut as she know nothing about our lost CPF investment in Temasek and GIC??But the directors still recived Millions bonus??Ang gone our CPF Singaporean hard earned Money????
Nadi Goreng ah.
Nice it would BE, should, one DAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP, WOULD SHAKE HAND WITH SG- INSTALLED PRESIDENT DUMB
It’s hopeless. No one will ever open that book
It’s all gone (CPF) with the wind. How long more are we going to last before the Pandora box gets blown wide open. By then all the Whites would have fled this Island with their accummaleted wealth to greener shores leaving us in abject poverty.
Did the past PAP’s Selected President discharged his vested duty of safeguarding our reserve and stamp the heavy losses suffered through imprudent investments by Temasek and GIC?
Haha she cooking ayam goreng don’t distract her
Jangan kechol; saya tenga main masak2, Tuan Pinky kena bodoh ama saya
Come on ! Give her a break ! She still going to Istana office early to personally see which plants are suitable there. Our reserves’ financial documents are not at Istana lah. She gotta write in to the G to request too
Unless all these losses were cancelled out by some even bigger profits then it’s ok but they just won’t tell us would they ? Why ?
I still believe that businessmen are born not made and certainly not schooled !
Gone South means negative..
Ka ka only makes qua.qua account dat dat wo. That’s why he ask me to be president…HAHAHA
Do Cook Do together