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Security guard sacked after posting vulgar comment on PM Lee’s Facebook page

Security guard sacked after posting vulgar comment on PM Lee’s Facebook page

[CORRECTED 11:00pm 15 May 2014: The article originally said that the comment drew 20k Likes. This has been corrected to state that PM Lee's post on Mother's Day itself drew that number of Likes.]

Security guard Ridhuan Abdullah, 30, has been sacked from Keith Morton Security Pte Ltd after posting a vulgar comment on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Facebook page, the security firm's owner William Morton Jr confirmed with Yahoo Singapore over the phone on Thursday.
 
When asked for further comments on the man who posted the vulgar statement on Lee’s Mothers’ Day post -- which drew 20,000 Likes -- on Sunday, Morton said, “We would like the matter closed and leave it as it is.”
 
An earlier report by The Straits Times quoted him as saying, “He clearly breached our company’s code of conduct and we cannot tolerate this.”
 
He added that such a conduct “cannot be condoned”, especially when security officers are expected to “uphold basic standards of decorum”, according to the report.
 
The vulgar comment has already been deleted. The Facebook user posted the 13-word comment directed at the prime minister's mother under the moniker Grizzlybear Ridhuan Abdullah at that time.
 
Today, his Facebook username appears to have been changed to his actual name.