SDP recently had their campaign kick off event, held at Mandarin Orchard Hotel. This was after a last minute cancellation of venue. You can read more about that here: SDP Campaign Kick Off Venue Canceled Booking 26 Hours Before Event, JTC Gets Defensive
Now according to Straits Times, the venue operators, KCCV (Kingdom Community Church Ventures) has since apologized to JTC for citing a 'JTC Inspection' as one of the reasons of cancellation. KCCV has also contacted SDP to apologize, while also offering to pay the difference between venue rental costs as well as the cancellation fee of the party’s caterer.
On SDP's website, they released a statement saying that they have since accepted KCC's apology. On the afternoon of 26 February 2019, SDP chief Chee Soon Juan and Organising Secretary Mr Jufri Salim met with Pastor Vincent Lun of KCC. Mr Lun has apologized for the matter and SDP also accepted the apology and considered the matter closed.
However, they are still awaiting for JTC to apologize for "wrongly accusing SDP for being “totally irresponsible to conflate this issue with the on-going investigations” of the KCCV's premises."
You can read the full statement here:
Dr Chee Soon Juan and SDP Organising Secretary Mr Jufri Salim met with Pastor Vincent Lun of KCC this afternoon. Mr Lun had contacted Dr Chee and asked to meet.
At the meeting, Mr Lun apologised again on behalf of KCC Ventures and said that was no sugar-coating the matter – it was wrong on their part to have cancelled the SDP's event on 23 Feb the day before and accepted full responsibility over the matter. He also compensated us for the expenses incurred as a result of the change in venue.
The SDP has decided to accept KCCV's apology and considers the matter closed.
That leaves the other outstanding issue with the JTC who had wrongly accused the SDP of being “totally irresponsible to conflate this issue with the on-going investigations” of the KCCV's premises.
As can be seen from the KCCV's statement, it was KCCV who had drawn JTC into the matter – not the SDP. In its statement, the KCCV said that "The fault lies solely with us". The organisation has done the right and decent thing and apologised for its error.
We expect the JTC to also do the right and decent thing and await its apology.
