Dr Chee Soon Juan was contacted by a resident in Bukit Batok and found several lamppost that were not properly secured and could be a danger to the residents in the area.
He brought up the Toa Payoh incident where two youngster were electrocuted and stress the need for authorities to take action in order to safe guard the residents
Here is what he posted on Facebook:
I went down to BB yesterday to check out a complaint from a resident regarding wires dangerously exposed in lampposts. If I didn’t take these photos, you would think that I’m making this stuff up.
These lampposts are in and around Blk 162-164 in BB. The first photo is at a playground in front of a busy NTUC store. As you can see, the cover of the post is missing, exposing electrical wires.
I posted a couple of weeks ago about two teenagers being electrocuted after coming into contact with lampposts in Toa Payoh. One would have thought that after this incident, MPs would step up their vigilance regarding electrically exposed facilities in their estates.
Apparently, however, not in BB. A quick check (and this is just on the concourse around a few blocks, I dread to think what goes on in the other parts of the estate) showed that there were multiple lampposts whose conditions were in a decrepit and dangerous state.
Not only did covers of control panels and fuse boxes go entirely missing, some were held in place by electrical tape, others had wires coming out of the control box that fed power to lights at a pavilion, etc and so on.
After the incident at Toa Payoh, it seems that no lesson was learnt and the sorry state will continue until the next incident happens where injuries are inflicted and lives even lost. The MP would then come out, apologise profusely and “accept responsibility”.
Like what Mr Murali did after a resident needlessly died in a fire that broke out in BB a couple of years ago when the fire hose reel was found locked and the water supply cut off.
I warned at that time that MPs, in this case Mr Murali, needed to spend more time taking care of the estate and looking into matters that jeopardised the safety of his residents. The warning has apparently gone unheeded.
I urge – as I have on countless occasions over numerous other situations – Mr Murali to personally attend to this sorry state of lampposts in BB. If any of the residents are electrocuted as a result of the negligence, no amount of saying sorry and accepting responsibility will suffice.
After all the money that the government collects and the MPs are paid, Singaporeans – and BB residents in particular – deserve better that this dangerous nonsens.#SDP #CSJforBukitBatok#BBHereIStand#CSJ#BukitBatok#SDP