For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is ac­cus­ing Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee of fail­ing to ex­er­cise prop­er over­sight over his min­istry, fol­low­ing fresh con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s sus­pend­ed $3.4 bil­lion hous­ing pro­gramme.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued to­day, Robin­son-Reg­is crit­i­cised Lee af­ter he dis­tanced him­self from a Sun­day Ex­press re­port al­leg­ing that “com­pen­sa­tion” was of­fered to a re­porter in an at­tempt to kill a sto­ry linked to the HDC con­tracts now un­der scruti­ny, say­ing he didn't know any­thing about what was re­port­ed.

Robin­son-Reg­is de­scribed the min­is­ter’s re­sponse as an­oth­er in­stance of “I don’t know”, ar­gu­ing that it re­flect­ed a trou­bling lack of aware­ness about de­vel­op­ments with­in his min­istry.