After much "prompting as well as cajoling", a Auditor-General's Report was eventually expelled as well as tabled in Parliament upon 24th Oct 2011.
On a really subsequent day, a MACC expelled a press matter announcing which it has non-stop up 36 investigations in to a irregular! ities an d scandals disclosed in a Auditor-General's Report.
Within a week, MACC had finished a lightning-quick examine upon a box which involves a Marine Park Department paying over RM100,000 upon 2 pairs of night-vision binoculars. As there were 3 non-working days last week (the Deepavali open legal holiday upon Wednesday, Saturday as well as Sunday), MACC's speed in this review is truly strange as well as beyond belief.
However, it is most unfortunate which a result of a review did not match up to taxpayers' expectations. MACC had fast resolved which ! no gra ft or abuse of energy was involved, merely non-compliance of method of financial guidelines as well as governmental tendering procedures". It is viewable which MACC had chickened out as well as meekly passed a "hot potato" back to a Marine Park Department, proposing which a department take disciplinary movement opposite a errand officers as well as blacklist a relevant suppliers.
The conclusion made by MACC is a huge disservice to taxpayers as well as there ! is an ov erwhelming clarity of disappointment all around.
Too sore to be credible
The cast-iron fact is which Marine Park Officers paid more than RM100,000 for 2 night-vision binoculars which cost less than RM5,000 in a open marketplace as well as RM47,725 for colour sonar apparatus for which a marketplace cost is RM8,255.
If a sore forgive for overpayment is which a officers in charge were unfamiliar with a prevailing marketplace prices as well as conditions, then how could an shun clause be means to errand purchasing officers of a department for extensive overpayment of common equipment such as RM11,845 for a laptop as well as colour printer with a total marketplace cost of RM3,428, as well as RM16,100 for a LCD television as well as DVD player with a marketplace cost of RM2,182?
The upon top of equipment were to be installed upon a brand new RM7.51-million all-weather aluminium boat, which a department took delivery of upon 24th Dec 2010.
On top of that, a retailer had failed to comply with a provisions in a contract, as well as yet a government had paid a retailer in full. This meant which a government had overpaid a retailer by RM100,517.
How can these irresponsible as well as indeterminate characters be let off a hook so easily?
Repeated subsequent yeat
Such shortcomings would surely raise questions regarding to a trustworthiness as well as reserve standards of a vessel. The vessel is meant for patrolling a high seas during a monsoon season. With such sore review procedures as well as profound lack of accountability, it would be as well late to start a witch hunt when officers' lives have been lost while carrying out their duties!
The officers as well as companies concerned in these rarely strange exchange contingency not be let off a hook so easily. The MACC contingency take sterner movement opposite a culprits concerned as a halt to other unscrupulous parties. If a MACC is fearful of these low-level polite servants, what hope do you have of them uncovering a true culprits in a Feedlot Corp sc! andal?
If a MACC does not take unrelenting movement opposite these errant officers as well as suppliers, you will expected see such nonsense again in a year's time when a subsequent AG's Report is unveiled.
Teo Nie Ching is a DAP National Assistant Publicity Secretary as well as Serdang MP
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