NKF-that can of worms has already been opened!
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Yeah! Well, lets see if the change the management policy. Call center needs to be re-tendered too.
Ministry of Finance should investigate Durai and his obvious flout of the the conflict of interest clause. -
Yeah! Well, lets see if the change the management policy. Call center needs to be re-tendered too.
Ministry of Finance should investigate Durai and his obvious flout of the the conflict of interest clause - if it was ever a clause... it should be. -
CAD should step in, how come they r still sleepingOriginally posted by niehur:Yeah! Well, lets see if the change the management policy. Call center needs to be re-tendered too.
Ministry of Finance should investigate Durai and his obvious flout of the the conflict of interest clause. -
Boss now overseas in US
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Obviously she did not give the proper advice to NKF as a professional lawyer or NKF would not have to start the law suit and then withdraw the next day, or is it her arrogance and belief that this would be just another law suit to put away opposition? whatever it is, it obvious that the public has taught her a lesson, and she is acknowledging it.Originally posted by CPTMiller:SM Goh wife is a professional lawyer.
She knows very well what she can say and cannot say in public.
I dont think we need to teach her.
The question is why she dare to mention S$600K peanuts and many
people will be unhappy.
Those people that is unhappy cant do a thing to her or husband.
Why she care?
Think carefully who is GCT and his position and who is his superior?
If she were passing insensitive remarks because of "who is GCT and his position and who is his superior", then the more GCT and his superior would be affected. Can you imagine the relatives and friends of GCT, his superiors and his subordinates all talk nonsense on the weight of " who is GCT and his position and who is his superior"? Suharto has done great for Indonesia, but what happened to his political future because of what his children did? Fortunately, LKY knows very well and his wife is always low profile. -
All hail Davinder Singh
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n sgforums made another special appearance is the newpaper
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I don't have to show you any proof of what GCT did for her to be patron, she is (was) there because she was Mrs Goh, how else do you address her to distant her from GCT???? Is calling GCT 's wife "the shrew" your way to show respect to the great and patriotic man??Originally posted by niehur:Hey if you have proof that GCT wrote a recommendation letter for her to be patron, then say what u say. If not, leave him alone. He wasn't the one who shot that stupid comment. He has done enough good for Singapore for one to believe in his integrity and wisdom.
If your wife insists on being the shrew she is despite her 'education' are you sure you can keep her in control?
And about GCT's boss. Is it news that there are evidently 2 factions in the PAP? The quiet seat warmers who goes about working steadfastly and the other camp who is the power house? GCT is a great and patriotic man who has stood firm in office despite the seat warmer joke and pulled singapore through the troubles in the past few years.
So be grateful and criticize only the guilty. As for the other ladies, whether they have been invited or have decided to turn down the offers to be patrons, that's their business and prerogative.
Hey do you have evidence to say that "there are evidently 2 factions in the PAP"? and what has this to do with NKF, another conspiracy theory??? If GCT cannot control his wife from passing insensitive remarks, then he might just end up being the true seat warmer.
I am sure the other ladies were invited as they were wives of the senior headmen of the country. LKY's wife is also a lawyer!! but they were of greater help to their husbands by speaking appropriately, or no words at all. -
So why is there no apologies from the CEO or BOD?
They still believe they did no wrong or just take the money and go.
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still farking unrependent laughing all the way to the bank now knnOriginally posted by Rainbow88:So why is there no apologies from the CEO or BOD?
They still believe they did no wrong or just take the money and go.
The CAD and/or IRAS should be looking into this...
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http://www.kdf.org.sg/financial.htm
pretty amazing! a year supply of peanuts can pay for (all?) the employees of KDF.
maybe durai can cough up a year or two of his pay so KDF need not work too
hard for donations
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if the "one" (MIW) want to make him cough up the $$$. what choice he has but hey that will never happen for one day, when the days come the MIW need to cough out all the $$$. so no exception. worst if watrai said the not to said things. hah...Originally posted by fett:http://www.kdf.org.sg/financial.htm
pretty amazing! a year supply of peanuts can pay for (all?) the employees of KDF.
maybe durai can cough up a year or two of his pay so KDF need not work too
hard for donations
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The ST reported yesterday before that robber resigned that NKF staff stood up and applauded him when he went back to work.
These NKF people seem to be sticking their middle fingers up and telling Singaporeans who pay for their salaries: "F!@#$ You."
As the Chinese idiom goes, "Shang Liang Bu Zhen, Xia Liang Wai".
Experience tells us that every high-powered CEO will have his lapdogs and eunuchs serving him.
Who are these lapdogs and eunuchs in NKF?
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i am angry with what happened at nkf and the CEO too.
but it is only right that we do not discount what durai has done for nkf and its patients. nkf staff are not the only one speaking out for him. i seriously do not think all the people are supporting him blindly.
all things considered there must be something about him that has earned him a good reputation. he erred like most humans do and is now paying dearly for it - he is stepping down!!
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Article from asia1.com
It's time for leadership change: Durai
CEO says he believes in change; earlier, he had said he would not quit
By Theresa Tan
July 15, 2005
The Straits Times
PUTTING up a brave front after resigning, besieged National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief T.T. Durai told reporters he 'strongly believed in change'.
Barely an hour earlier, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan had announced Mr Durai's resignation as chief executive officer of the NKF at a hastily convened press conference.
Mr Durai, who initially avoided answering reporters' questions after the press conference, was smiling as he said: 'I have been running NKF for 37 years and I think it's time that a new leadership takes over because I strongly believe in change... a new style.'
Asked if quitting was a tough decision to make, Mr Durai, 57, said 37 years was a long time and the time had come for a leadership change.
After dropping his defamation suit against The Straits Times on Tuesday, he maintained that he had done nothing wrong and said he would not resign 'unless people want me to'.
Overnight, thousands of outraged Singaporeans called for his resignation through online petitions, letters to newspapers and calls to the media.
As of last night, almost 40,000 people had signed an online petition calling for his removal. By yesterday, more than 6,800 NKF donors had cancelled their regular donations too.
On Wednesday morning, too, the walls of the NKF headquarters were vandalised with graffiti attacking him.
Yesterday afternoon, Mr Durai and NKF chairman Richard Yong sought Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan's views on how to go about restoring public trust in the organisation.
Mr Durai offered to step down and asked the minister if that would 'be helpful'. Mr Khaw told him it would.
About three hours later at the press conference, a red-eyed and drawn Mr Durai sat looking down most of the time. He looked to Mr Khaw, seated beside him, almost every time reporters put a question to him.
The minister did most of the talking during the press conference, which was telecast live over Channel News Asia. After the hour-long session, he left immediately, flanked by Mr Yong and vice-chairman Alwyn Lim.
A former lawyer, Mr Durai started as an NKF volunteer when he was an undergraduate in the 1960s. After 21 years as a volunteer, he took on the top post in 1992.
In the past decade, the NKF grew to become Singapore's largest charity, with an income of about $100 million in 2003 and about 1,000 employees.
It also expanded from helping kidney patients, to providing health screening for the masses and starting a fund for cancer patients this year.
After yesterday's press conference, Mr Durai refused to answer reporters' questions until someone asked if he had anything to say to the public.
He replied: 'I want to thank the donors of the NKF for helping me in the past 37 years to build a great institution which has achieved iconic status in the world.
'I pray that donors continue to support the NKF henceforth.'
I watched the press conference and his response to reporters outside the office. I couldn't help but notice a certain smugness in him while he answered questions.
Similarly, when quizzed on the difficult choice of stepping down and the reasons why, he chose to focus on his achievements over the last 37 years and that he believed in change. Hence the impression he gave was that he felt the reasons why he was stepping down was becoz he believed in fresh faces to take over his 'glittering record', not becoz he was forced out by public outrage.
Clearly TT Durai still thinks he has done nothing wrong, whether ethically or morally. The arrogance in his smile seemed to underline his defiance to public opinion. Not one shred of humility was offered nor any form of apology from either him or the board regarding the whole fiasco.
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if a person can say that $600,000 is peanuts, what does it say about the character and mindset of that person. you neber see all the ah-mahs and ah-peks sweeping the floor and clearing the dishes izzit ??? you go and tell them $600, 000 is peanuts lar !!
Durai already "tan dio" liao lar. 3 years make $1.8 million. We should make him give back all the $$$ that we donated to help the patients. -
i think alot of people are really compassionate....
read ST Forum and other online forums whereby people implored people not to stop donations... but I for 1, disagree. we should stop donating, at least for now, even tho Durai & his BOD have resigned.
their reserves of $262 m is really a huge sum. many charities who serve the needy cannot even raise $1 m a year to cover their operating expenses.... people should divert their funds to these other needy as well.... NKF is not the ONLY charity in Singapore....
the nkf patients are not, i repeat, NOT in IMMINENT danger of losing their financial assistance. their reserves, already confirmed by their ex-CEO is that it can last 30 years (even if miscaluation or add in inflation and patient influx, maybe iso 30 years, 10 years?)... nkf is already in a much more enviable situation as compared to other charities...
2/3 Singaporean donate to nkf...translate to abt 2 m people..... only abt 7 k people cancelled their donations.... see how compassionate we are....
nkf albeit a really successful fund-raiser has many questionable concerns that we the public should get them to address and that we should keep in mind.
they have the money, means and clout to organize mass fund-raising activities, infiltrate into our education system to use little children to "sell" the donation to a compassionate society. now they must reflect on their reserves, practices, mission statement and moral obligation and do some moral good in light of the negative publicity....
my qualms abt them are:-
1. their staff had stood behind Durai 100%. so the new BOD, if have differing opinons on how to run the place, would not have the support?
2. the operating expenses of their spanking nice building would probably amount to a tidy sum of donations that could have been put to better use.
3. the ratio of staff to patient is very low.... why does nkf need 900+ staff to serve 1800 patients? do they have 1 doctor/ nurse/ attendant to 2 patients? operating costs becomes very high... should not a charity be "saving" money rather than spending more money.... alto conventional marketing is to spend abit to reap more, but that's commercial...not "NOT FOR PROFIT".
4. a full and proper disclosure of previous years expenditures should be made known to the public. we never know, maybe they had abused the fund over a long term and spent more than necessary out of the donations on non-necessary items. alto its like digging up the past, but we deserve to know.
5. a personally-paid public apology from Durai and his BOD for their unrepentent attitude.
6. mislead of public by inflating patient numbers - pure dishonesty and yet they suffer no repercussions from that from a legal point.... what message is that?
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Look like it is the first time S'poreans used the ppl power & the govt responded positively.Hooray!!!
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Originally posted by PRP:
its not over yet. a lot of questions are still unanswered.
[b]Look like it is the first time S'poreans used the ppl power & the govt responded positively.Hooray!!![/b] -
actually, Durai has been told time and again to curb the spending abuses from as long as 5 years back...
he has done nothing and actually took a few other people to court... this time, he picked on the wrong lot of people...
well, maybe let him go and probably no one will wanna hire him again...
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rolex watch siah!Originally posted by M©+square:My aunt serves in the canteen near NKF headquarters, when those nurses ordered food from my aunt.
She noticed all nurses had a Rolex on their wrist. So out of curiosity, my aunt ask them if they earn alot. Those nurses got offended...so she explained that she saw all of them wearing rolexes.
Those nurses explained that it was a annual gift from NKF. End
My concern now is 1) whose money was used on these rolexes?
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Nope. Not even a word of apology from the fella.Originally posted by the Bear:actually, Durai has been told time and again to curb the spending abuses from as long as 5 years back...
he has done nothing and actually took a few other people to court... this time, he picked on the wrong lot of people...
well, maybe let him go and probably no one will wanna hire him again...
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Ever occured to you that most people are not bothered?Originally posted by fire & ice:i think alot of people are really compassionate....
Of cos, there those who are truly compassionate. -
I hope to see:
hope Mr TT Durai and other Director will returned All bonus they received to NKF fund.
hope they can use the funds help more patients, or give free treatment to patient who able to pay for the treatment or give most refused on their bill and elderly.
I heard alot of patients been reject by them, they lost and hope to get help.
I also heard from my friend that she have to pay $600 monthly for the treatment. another friend of mine , his mother is the patients he one person working have two children and wife to look after, paid very little have to come out $200 for his mother treatment and his brother sister too, patients have to eat also and see doctor my friends hve no extra cash.
alot of donator donate is to help the needed patients to have free treatment, not to paid him bonus.
PLEASE RETURNED THE MONEY !!! so more patients can paid lesses on their bills this is what we want to see !!! -
err... if not compassionate, why then the dropout rate of the donation programme is so low as compared to the number of donors as purported? surely, regular donors are compassionate?Originally posted by M©+square:Ever occured to you that most people are not bothered?
Of cos, there those who are truly compassionate.