A reader asked me to pen something upon a Auditor General's report.
I was reluctant to write this year, not since we suspicion there is any improvement in wastage as well as leakage, though rather what was revealed was nothing brand brand new anymore.
Year in as well as Year out, we have created upon a abuses revealed, as well as yet a same thing happens again as well as again.
I consider it would sufficient usually to paraphrase a single of my old essay created in October 2009. Just shift a minsitry as well as a equipment procured, as well as we have my view:
It is which time of a year again.
No, we am not referring to a 'durian' season, nor to a festivities similar to Deepavali, Hari Raya or Mid Autumn Festival.
I am referring to a time when lay group similar to we as well as me feel indignant as well as undone towards certain 'wrongs", though have been unable to do anything.
Every year, since time immemorial, it has evoked a same feeling; though each year, we usually whine , criticism with a 'coffee kakis' in 'Kopitiams' as well as shake up a heads . People similar to me with a mechanism will substantially write something to let off steam; a some-more critical people, similar to those elected YBs from a alternative side of a divide, will substantially poise some annoying questions in a Dewan.
The finish formula will be a same; life carries upon as well as nothing changes. We will all forget about as well as talk upon alternative issues until a time of a year is here again.
I impute to a week in a year when a Annual Auditor General's inform is released.
Many years back, a AG reports revealed which those in a 20s as well as 30s competence not remember- certain equipment of cutlery were pai! d for fo r millions of ringgit, a purchasing energy of which will be homogeneous to a price of a tiny brand brand new Honda jet now( we googled as well as found which Honda jets price US$ 3.65 millions any a year ago ).
Well, not to be outdone, we have officers in opposite departments competing with any alternative to get listed in a AG inform each year, as if it is a honour list not to be outdone by others.
This year a honour must go to a college in Balik Pulau Penang, which paid for 2 laptops for RM $ 42,320 per piece, according to a Star online here. we do not know what modernized features this path tip has, though we usually know which for which volume of money, we can buy some-more than a dozens of a mechanism which we am regulating right away to write this.
Then again, if they paid for a nineteen inch guard for Rm8,500 per unit, what do we expect? we can buy a single for about a thousand ringgit. Not to mention a 450 units of mechanism CADs which price RM3.45 million, an volume an normal Malaysian can never goal to earn in a lifetime.
What can we all do? we will write as well as let off steam as well as this is right away fast becoming a protocol at this time of a year. Many of my friends who do not similar to to write will substantially go to Kopitiams again, commenting upon these purchases, sighing as well as cursing, as well as soon forgetful about a whole thing again.
Do not censure these officers for buying above marketplace prices. When they see a leaders profitable tens of millions of commission to center group in procurements, it is usually tellurian to follow suit.
When a tip beams have been crooked, a reduce beams cannot be straight.
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