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The Committee of Privileges heard that Raeesah Khan was advised by three senior Workers’ Party (WP) MPs to stick to the lie that she had told in Parliament on 3 August.
Khan had testified that she was advised on 8 August by Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh, WP Chairman Sylvia Lim and WP vice-chairman Faisal Manap to “take the (secret) to the grave”.
Khan was testifying and giving evidence to the Committee of Privileges, chaired by Speaker Tan Chuan Jin; along with her former assistant Loh Pei Ying, volunteer Yudhishthra Nathan and former legislative assistant Lim Hang Ling.
She had resigned from the party and her position as MP for Sengkang GRC on Tuesday.
The committee then said in their report that “if Ms Khan and the WP could get away with it, there was no need to clarify the lie. If the matter was brought up again, there would also be no need for her to clarify and there was no need for the truth to be told”.
Disputed Pritam Singh’s statements at press conference
Following the press conference on 2 December where Singh said that the party leaders gave Khan time to deal with the matter as she had not told her family about her own assault experience, Khan disputed his comments that he advised her to admit to her lie in Parliament and take responsibility for it.
Khan said that no one from WP advised her to tell the truth and that she wasn’t ordered to clarify herself.
She replied, “I’m hearing this for the first time” when told by the committee that Singh had ordered her to clarify the matter (about her lying) in Parliament.