Three-time president describes her unhappiness with the new team in a letter to long-time members. Wong Kim Hoh reports.
Mrs Singam (left) told them she had quit as adviser to the new executive committee steering the group. As immediate past president, Mrs Singam - under Aware's Constitution - automatically earned an advisory role to the new committee. -- ST FILE PHOTO
One voice had been silent in the controversy currently swirling around Singapore's most well-known women's group - that of stalwart and three-time president Constance Singam.
Yesterday afternoon, however, she broke her silence in a letter - marked confidential - to long-time members of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware).
March 28: Newcomers defeat seasoned members to win nine of 12 positions on the executive committee. Former lawyer Claire Nazar, a member since January last year, elected unopposed as president.
'I am not at all happy where this is going. This is not a gay versus Christian debate. It is getting away from what Aware stands for. We have spoken up and initiated discussion on a lot of much broader issues - foreign worker abuse, domestic abuse, financial intelligence, education, body image, sexual harassment. We address issues that have large and wide implications which affect society.'
She told them she had quit as adviser to the new executive committee steering the group. As immediate past president, Mrs Singam - under Aware's Constitution - automatically earned an advisory role to the new committee.
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