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

The Singapore government on Friday night hit back at Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of the country’s former prime minister and younger son of the modern city state’s founder, saying he had created “false urgency” for their family home to be demolished.

Lee had earlier in the day called on current Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to take “responsibility” in deciding on the fate of the family home of the country’s most powerful political clan.

Local media reported in the evening that the government in response had said Lee Kuan Yew had accepted that his family home might be preserved.

A spokesman from the Ministry of Digital Development and Information 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: “PM 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 not 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 younger of the brothers, and his late sister Lee Wei Ling made public a conflict with their older brother Lee Hsien Loong in 2017, alleging the then leader was misusing his power to scuttle their efforts to demolish the family bungalow in line with their father’s wishes.

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