An Underground City For 10 Million Population? That's A LIE

The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) has issued a take-down notice to alternative news site The Online Citizen (TOC) for an article titled "Severe consequences for a PAP majority with its underground city for 10m population", published on Jul 31.

There are no plans for a underground city for 10 million and the central claim in that article that the issuance of the Singapore Savings Bonds is for the purpose of financing an underground city is also blatantly false.

AGC also noted that TOC did not check with the Ministry of National Development before publishing the article and requested that TOC either remove the article or include a specific paragraph laid out in the AGC notice.

This is the specific paragraph laid out in the AGC's notice:

"Since the publication of this article, The Online Citizen has received notice from the Attorney General’s Chambers that the central assertion made in this article is patently false: The monies raised from the issuance of the Singapore Saving Bonds will used to finance the construction of an underground city for a population of 10 million.

There is no plan to build an underground city or underground residential developments to accommodate a “10 million population”. Underground space has been developed to accommodate infrastructure such as MRT rail lines, utilities and storage spaces. This is intended in fact to prioritise and maximise surface land to create a good environment which meet the needs of our people and their families for work, live and play."

TOC has since appended the notice at the top of the article.