Online petition to remove Lee Bee Wah garners more than 1,000 signatories and still counting
After the extensive publicity given to our online petition by both the English and Chinese dailies, the number of Singaporeans penning their names down on the petition to remove Lee Bee Wah as STTA President has now exceeded a thousand.
Many Singaporeans are simply outraged at her gross callousness in casting aspersions on the integrity and professionalism of one of Singapore’s most successful coach in recent times, having won a coveted Olympic medal for Singapore after 48 years of barren spell.
Lee Bee Wah still remained uncontactable since the furore erupted. Is this another misquote by the journalists? Her continued silence on the fracas is an admission of guilt on her part in slandaring coach Liu and bringing the entire STTA into disrepute.
If coach Liu indeed has some “problems” in his character, then Lee Bee Wah should substantiate her allegations in public now that her initial statements were widely reported by the press.
Why did STTA offer Liu a new, improved contract then if they found him to be undeserving in the first place?
Coach Liu had been with STTA for 4 years and he never experienced any problems with the previous President. Neither were there negative reports about him in the media. Why did he suddenly become “problematic” with the arrival of Lee Bee Wah? Does the real problem lies with Liu or Lee?
Though Liu Guodong has left Singapore for more than half a year, many Singaporeans still appreciate his contributions to the nation.
Wrote Low Kok Kiong:
Low Kok Kiong It is a wrong move and you have put Singapore in a bad light internatioanally. You were given this opportunity to close the whole chapter regarding LGD yet you did not make use of this golden opportunity. I am disappointed with your decisions not to nominate LGD and to say things about professionalism and conduct is really uncalled for. It just shows how petty the STTA or Singapore is and I wonder how it can attract more foreign talent coaches in Singapore again.
Another netizen was disgusted with her actions:
raj I’m disgusted with STTA president Ms Lee Bee Wah for her actions against the coach. I feel he deserves more than just a medal or the title ‘coach of the year’ ….his name should go into the books of Singapore records for working with the team to achieve a Silver medal for Singapore….Comon’ we’re talking Olympics here and not some RC game. Ms Lee should STEP DOWN and apologise for her mistakes and remarks. Singapore…lets be gracious & reward the coach.
Doris was concerned if Singapore is still able to attract top foreign talents in the future with this kind of “culture” Lee Bee Wah brought into STTA:
Doris Just like in a company, if one made a mistake and will be “mark” and ask to leave, who will dare to work hard for this company? Who on earth will not make mistake?Moreover Coach Liu had made up any mistakes(if he really had mistakes) by winning the sliver olympic medal. Why so narrow minded? How can Singapore attract good players or coach to join Singapore team if this kind of culture still stay in STTA? So I am not surprise we won’t score any olympid medal again if STTA lead by Miss LBW
The degree of anger and indignation felt by Singaporeans is a testimony of Lee Bee Wah’s unpopularity:
Wu MengJun Liu brought glory to the nation and right after that you had to sack him because of some personal issues. Singaporeans don’t want him sacked. the players dont want him sacked. JUST BECAUSE OF YOU LEE BEE WAH U BROUGHT SHAME AND ANGER RIPING THROUGH THE NATION. SHAME ON YOU! save yourself some face and step down on your own because you don’t deserve to be a STTA President. You don’t have the integrity nor the chacracter for it. You don’t qualify for it at all.
We will send an ultimatum to Lee Bee Wah together with the petition to implore her to step down as STTA President for the sake of the association, sports and nation.
If she still wilfully refuse to do so, we will escalate the matter up to the higher authorities.
For those of you who still have not signed the petition, please do so here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/lbh/petition.html
Please forward it to everybody you know and let’s aim to hit 5,000 by the end of the week.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/sunkopitiam/messages?msg=28839.11
No comments:
Post a Comment