An opposition politician, a Facebook user and online website Jom have been asked to put up corrections under the law against fake news, over articles and social media posts that contain false statements about the Ridout Road saga.
The Ministry of Law (MinLaw) on Sunday (July 16) said Second Minister for Law Edwin Tong had issued the instructions to the Reform Party leader, Kenneth Jeyaretnam, and Facebook user Thamil Selvan.
The orders are in relation to an article published by Mr Jeyaretnam “Will SLA issue a statement denying the rumours that they have awarded any contracts to Shanmugam’s son’s company?” on July 2 on his website The Ricebowl Singapore, as well as Mr Thamil’s Facebook post on July 1.
In the article and post, they had “falsely stated that the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) gave the contract to renovate 26 Ridout Road and/or 31 Ridout Road to home interior and renovation company Livspace”. They had also claimed that this was done because the chief executive officer of Livspace is the son of Law Minister K. Shanmugam.
The two colonial-era bungalows in Ridout Road are being rented by Mr Shanmugam and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.
In the statement, MinLaw said that Livspace and Minister Shanmugam’s son were not appointed by SLA to carry out works for 26 Ridout Road or 31 Ridout Road, as stated by Mr Tong during the Parliamentary sitting on July 3.
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