*edited 25 October, 1710h*
I am sharing this update not for us to witch-hunt or bash anyone in OTH. In the update below, I will state the names and their positions of personnel who have contacted me or I have been referred to.
I am sharing this here so that all of us who are concerned about this matter know how this appeal is progressing.These are individuals who are doing their jobs and they also deserve to be treated with respect.
As of last night (24 Oct) at 11pm, OTH PR agency representative, Mr Joseph Rajendran of Wiredcomms Strategies, sent me an email to link me up with the OTH Dep Director of Communications and Marketing, Ms Veronica Yong.
In this email, he stated that they have received my feedback about the strip club scene from the PSC Public Service Centre counter that I left at approximately 4.55pm, Wed 23 Oct 2019.
In this email ( timestamped 2304h, Thurs 24 Oct 2019), an invitation was extended to me to meet with them so that they can "understand your concerns and have a meaningful discussion for the greater good of the Hub".
Now, I am not even sure why OTH, in spite of having their own communications & marketing team, community programming and social media teams did not contact me directly but had to have a PR agency representative to connect me with them. (Perplexed much.)
In this same email, I was asked to provide more details about my concerns back to them by email. *I went back to check my earlier correspondence over SMS with Mr Rajendran and realised that it was I who had said that I would email him my concerns at length.By that, I meant to send him the link to this petition. Hence, he was only following up on what I said. Nonetheless, I am still puzzled how it is that as OTH representative, he had still not seen my post on OTH Facebook so many hours after it was first posted.*
Again, I don't know why neither the PR agent for OTH nor anyone from OTH seems to have read the petition link I posted on their Facebook wall for a good 12 hours. The concerns I have, as well as you, are well summarised in this petition document.
I have since replied their email at 0034H, Friday 25 October 2019, to inform them that they can find more information on not just my, but OUR concerns, by checking the petition link I have left on the OTH Facebook.
I have also asked them if they are the relevant personnel with the authority to make decisions to call for a complete review of the media content being screened at OTH public areas. If they are not, I have asked them to connect me with the relevant personnel with the decision-making power.
I have also stressed that based on petition signatures (about 1.1k at this point of this update), the OTH should seriously consider owning the situation itself and provide clear answers to the public.
I also want to state that I have no intention of attending any closed door sessions with OTH by myself.
It is clear from the numbers supporting this petition that I do not stand alone in this concern. What needs to be said to me in a closed door meeting can and ought to be said to those of you who have signed this petition.
I have also received private messages from various friends and strangers to urge me to (1) email the Ministers and MPs (2) Go see MP so and so at Meet the People Sessions. Their reason is simple: Sure get faster response one.
I am not pursuing these 2 options for the following reasons:
1. I feel that we ought not resort to demanding for Ministers and MPs time for these sort of matters when there are people being paid to do the jobs of attending to these sort of concerns and issues on a lower level.
Let us exhaust every single possible means to engage these personnel first before we escalate it to higher levels of authority.
2. I am a busy mother of 3 children. I am a stay-at-home mom. I do not have a domestic helper. I do not have the luxury of time to go queue up for 2 or 3 hours to see the MP for a matter that is supposed to have actual proper platforms for feedback to be given. See my earlier point. There is a reason why every government and government-linked entity has customer service counters, feedback forms and email channels.
Once again, thank you very much for being willing to stand with me on this matter. Our children and our future need people like you to speak up for them.
I will continue to post updates when new developments arise and as soon as my time allows. I may not be as prompt as online news channels as I like to be because I have to focus on my kids too. But I will do my level best to provide these updates.
Thank you.