SINGAPORE — With just days to go before a much-anticipated Parliamentary sitting, Mr Lee Hsien Yang has taken aim at it, calling it an attempt by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to “cover up and whitewash himself” and adding that he has no confidence that a “fair, transparent or complete account of events will be told”.

The Parliamentary sitting on Monday (July 3) will allow only his brother’s side of the story to be told, said Mr Lee, the youngest of the three children of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

He added that there is “no promise of truthfulness due to parliamentary privilege. Indeed, it could also be an opportunity to continue to mislead or insinuate under this privilege”, and dismissed it as a forum which “again places Hsien Loong before his subordinates”.

The widely publicised feud over the fate of the 38 Oxley Road home of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew erupted just over two weeks ago, with the publication of a joint statement by Mr Lee Hsien Yang and his sister, Dr Lee Wei Ling.

In it, the duo said, among other things, that they felt “threatened” in trying to honour their late father’s long-standing wish for his two-storey bungalow near Orchard Road to be demolished. 

While PM Lee denied their claims and said he would address the House on Monday on the “serious” and “baseless” allegations, his siblings continue to level more attacks at him, including over the convening of a ministerial committee to look into the options for 38 Oxley Road.

In his latest Facebook post on Thursday afternoon, Mr Lee Hsien Yang said “a Parliamentary session is not the correct forum for investigations of this nature”.

He also said that his brother’s choice of addressing their allegations in Parliament was another example of his “misuse of his position and influence to drive his personal agenda”.

Although the party whip has been lifted for the session, PM Lee would largely be speaking before his subordinates, who will “fear career repercussions if they speak out against their superior”, he added.

“Even before the session, many of them appear to have felt obliged to give him cover,” he said. “Historically, few PAP MPs have dared to dissent even when the party whip was lifted.”

Mr Lee Hsien Yang added that the Members of Parliament also lack background knowledge of the matter at hand, which he alleged involved “numerous instances of abuse and conflicts of interest”.

“There will be no opportunity or adequate time for evidence to be properly drawn together, placed before Parliament, and considered. Nor will there be any opportunity for an examining body to properly probe explanations or excuses,” he wrote. “We believe that key issues such as his abuse of power will be simply swept under the carpet. The accused controls both process and outcome in this forum.”

On Mr Lee Hsien Yang’s part, however, questions have been raised about his wife Lee Suet Fern’s role in the late Mr Lee’s seventh and final will, which reinstated an instruction to demolish the house.

Members of the Cabinet have also weighed in on various aspects of the dispute, such as clarifying the purpose of the ministerial committee, and questioning the younger siblings’ urgency in seeking an immediate commitment from the Government to demolish the house.