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Lee Hsien Yang creates ‘false urgency’ for 38 Oxley Road demolition, says Singapore

Lee Hsien Yang creates ‘false urgency’ for 38 Oxley Road demolition, says Singapore

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He Singapore On Friday night, the government responded to Lee Hsien Yang, estranged brother of the country’s former prime minister and youngest son of the modern city-state’s founder, saying he had created a “false urgency” to have his family home was demolished.

That same day, Lee had asked current Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to assume the “responsibility” of deciding the fate of the family home of the country’s most powerful political clan.

Local media reported in the evening that the government had responded by saying that Lee Kuan Yew had agreed to have his family home preserved.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Information and Digital Development said that in 2012, Lee Kuan Yew had “submitted renovation and redevelopment plans for the property” and was “proceeding on the basis that the property will be preserved”.

In a Facebook post on Friday morning, Lee Hsien Yang, who has political asylum in the UK, said: “Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, the decision on 38 Oxley Road is your responsibility. In Lee Kuan Yew’s will, he wished for his house to be demolished “immediately after” Wei Ling was no longer there. The time for that decision is now.”
The two sons of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew have been estranged since Lee Hsien Yang, 67, the youngest of the brothers, and his late sister Lee Wei Ling went public with a conflict with their older brother. Lee Hsien Loong in 2017, alleging that the then leader was abusing his power to thwart her efforts to demolish the family bungalow in accordance with her father’s wishes.

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