Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Parliament on 13 April that a committee would gather views from the public and conceptualise a memorial for Singapore's "founding fathers", in response to calls from Members of Parliament to honour the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
Singapore's cabinet members in 1965, when the country was thrown out of Malaysia, are not the country's founding fathers. They did not found Singapore. Not even modern Singapore nor independent Singapore.
Furthermore, why did the Members of Parliament wait until after Mr Lee's passing before considering a memorial to honour the early cabinet members, all of whom except for Mr Lee had retired from the government a quarter of a century ago or longer?
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