Roy Ngerng vs Lee Hsien Loong - Shanmugam's reasoning

People can criticize the government in Singapore but if any allegations are made, they must be backed up with facts, said Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam. If that is the case please provide us the facts. Open up the books so that we may examine the relationships between CPF, SLA, HDB, Singapore Government accounts, GIC and Temasek Holdings. Once the facts are made known and are verifiable, no one, lest of all the Prime Minister, should have to suffer any form of baseless allegations that something improper is going on. At heart there are 2 issues: Protecting a person’s reputation against false accusations and the right to information on Government’s finances and its internal workings in order to verify that things are indeed sound. If things are being intentionally kept secret, it is only natural that there will be speculations as to the motives of keeping the things secret and speculations that there may be wrongdoings. The Prime Minister ought to know that this is the price to pay for having secrets. By choosing to bring legal actions against blogger Roy, the mistrust many Singaporeans have of the Government will only deepen.