Jamus Lim meets resident who says ‘All good governments need good opposition’

SINGAPORE: Throughout home visits at Sengkang GRC not too long ago, Employees’ Celebration MP Jamus Lim has been in a position to go to a number of housing blocks in each Compassvale and Anchorvale, the ward he represents in Parliament.

One resident expressed appreciation for the problems that the WP has raised within the Home. “He felt that every one good governments want good opposition. We agree, and it’s on this spirit that we place all our parliamentary interventions; to not muckrake and discover fault, however to offer constructive suggestions, as a result of it’s by responding to such critique that concepts get refined and improved, and molded to turn out to be the type of insurance policies we want to see in society. #SengkangGRC”

In a Fb publish on Friday (Dec 22), the WP MP shared about two explicit conversations he had this week. One resident expressed gladness on the alternative to attach with their MP, and the opposite spoke to him and the WP volunteers with Assoc Prof Lim concerning the significance of the opposition in Parliament.

The primary resident informed him that “it was good to have the ability to join” with the MP, nonetheless briefly.

“This made the MP look like an actual individual, not only a face they see on TV when throughout broadcasts parliamentary proceedings. I assured him that we had been, certainly, very common people, and if something, it’s the engagements we’ve got with residents that feed us with the problems and issues that we subsequently increase in parliament,” wrote Assoc Prof Lim.

Assoc Prof Lim and the WP group at Sengkang have been busy on the bottom with varied vacation and year-end actions.

Final Sunday (Dec 17), they held a back-to-school distribution for kids from much less lucky households, handing out e-book/stationery vouchers, a faculty bag, and “a bit of Christmas freebie” of a towel within the form of a cupcake that had been made by a visually-handicapped group who produce this stuff to help themselves. These had been donated to Workforce Sengkang by a sponsor.

In the meantime, Ms He Ting Ru, the Sengkang MP representing Buangkok, reminded residents of the annual Christmas reward change on Saturday (Dec 23). 

“We will probably be amassing gadgets to be donated to the Singapore Cheshire Residence. Come and be a part of us at 273E Compassvale Hyperlink, for a little bit of festive cheer to mark the top of 2023,” she wrote in a Dec 21 Fb publish.

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