PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE:KMT and DPP councilors took turns criticizing Ko for his actions in connection with several contracts as well as the loss of an agency head
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 21, 2016
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday came under fire at the Taipei City Council over several
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) councilors throw fake banknotes in the Taipei City Council chamber yesterday as they accuse Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, front right, of wasting city residents’ money. Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times
potential compensation payments as well as the resignation of Taipei Department of Legal Affairs Commissioner Yang Fang-ling (楊芳玲).
He also received several “gifts” from his critics.
Ko was scheduled to deliver a policy address to the council, the second day of its current session, but several councilors had signed up to speak before him.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Wu Shih-cheng (吳世正) panned Ko over what he called “a clandestine deal” with Radium Life Tech Co to cover the dissolution of the company’s contract to lease superficies at the MRT Nangang Depot. [FULL STORY]
