Meaningful to have a Founders Memorial Park: ESM Goh

SINGAPORE — Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has raised the idea of a Founders Memorial Park “to mark the making of a nation, it’s trials and tribulations”.

Noting that it would be meaningful, Mr Goh urged people to contribute ideas to this concept.

Mr Goh, writing on the MParader Facebook page today (April 14), said: “I, too, thought we should preserve Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s house as a national heritage.”

But the late Mr Lee could not be persuaded to do so, and was “totally against it”, said Mr Goh. “He was a rational man.”

“PM Lee explained Mr Lee’s thinking in Parliament yesterday, one which I was familiar with,” added Mr Goh. Yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke in Parliament about Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s wishes to have his house at 38 Oxley Road demolished. PM Lee had said that Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s position on 38 Oxley Road was unwavering over the years.

There have been calls from the public to turn the house at 38 Oxley Road into a museum and a memorial to the late Mr Lee.