Honestly, I am puzzled why our ex-presidential candidate, Mr Tan Kin Lian, went on from previous controversy of  posting pretty Xiao Mei Mei on social media to the now giving "emergency loans" to people who approached him. Back in August 2023, a TikTok video featured screenshots of several Facebook posts he had made about women he met around the country. Women's rights group AWARE expressed concern over his comments then.

Apparently, Mr Tan has been granting emergency loans to various locals to help them. Trouble brewed when they failed to repay him and he started publishing their names online. Mr Tan also asserted that a number of these borrowers did not honour the repayment terms after their emergency and some even went missing in action and uncontactable. He may even escalate by "asking" the employer of these defaulters to "pass a message". So now, Mr Tan has become a debt collector this time round.