Would the Minister be saying the same thing if a child got swept away and drowned in the flood on Thursday?… I would have expected at least an ounce of contrition on the part of the Minister for his ministry’s failure to act on a problem that has been known for years.

Gerald Giam, on Yaacob Ibrahim’s remarks on flood at Bukit Timah

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