Audit Report 2011: Nothing has changed


Without investigations opposite a officials in supervision departments who overspend their allocated budgets or indulge in greedy spending, zero would change.
COMMENT
Charles Santiago
It has regularly been a disaster for a government. The inform label upon a government's financial management, a Auditor-General's report, is again severe upon a government's greedy spending.
There have been some-more annoying revelations in this year's Auditor-General's inform as a nation heads towards what has been described as a most-closely fought ubiquitous choosing ever.
In comparison, a inform gave a thumbs up to a 4 Pakatan Rakyat-controlled states for a great mercantile management, ensuing in softened revenues.
But in direct contrast, a male digging through government's books says there have been countless problems together with a some-more than three-billion ringgit price overshoot upon a rail devise in northern Malaysia as well as supervision departments spending way over a starting rate for items together with flame lights as well as check boards.
The highly criticised stand in tracking rail devise is additionally seriously at a back of schedule.
This year, a inform revealed problems like a etiquette central who went upon a wild selling spree spending some-more than one million ringgit without permission as well as a supervision spending some-more than 3 million ringgit to set up only 6 billboards in Indonesia.
And it criticised a government-backed try to open Malaysian restaurants in London as well as Tokyo, which flopped, costing a supervision RM14 million.
This goes oppos! ite a go vernment's talks of being obliged with a peoples' money. And clearly, a mutation module which is actually to safeguard there is increasing accountability as well as transparency particularly in a civil service, given a fact there has been an increase in concern over a level of corruption, abuse as well as all a leakages have not really worked either.
If it had, some-more than RM400,000 value of cattle as well as goat semen will not remain unused as of a end of final year. And a amassed sovereign government-guaranteed loans would not have doubled in 4 years, standing at a whopping price of RM115 billion. A vast number of businesses which secured these loans have been government-linked companies.
Clearly zero has altered in Malaysia even though Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak keeps reminding us which his supervision is committed to cleaning up a complement which favours as well as thrives upon crony-connections, is rife with prevalent crime as well as saddled with greedy spending amounting to billions of ringgit in tax-payers money.
Even Shahrizat Abdul Jalil's forced abdication from a cabinet has really little stroke in pressurising a supervision to sire up. She was forced to give up in relation to some-more than RM240 million loan a supervision done to her family's cattle-rearing business.
The auditor ubiquitous found which most of which income got used for shopping high end condominiums as well as costly holidays instead of upon a cows.

What mutation plan?
The inform blames a fact which a supervision awarded contracts after brokering a understanding without delay with a company instead of through open tender. This opposite goes opposite a really grains of Najib's Government Transformation Plan as well as Economic Transformation Plan, which he pronounced have been crucial in achieving Malaysia's target of becoming a entirely grown nation by 2020.
Essentially a two-pronged skeleton were ! ostensib le to weed out swindle as well as safeguard a pure process when it comes to projects awarded by a government. And yet a unnecessary losses incurred by supervision departments as well as a use of awarding remunerative projects to associate companies persist.
But many essentially what action has a supervision or a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission taken to examine a abuse of power? The answer is none. The etiquette officer who chalked up a huge check simply threw in a towel. No action was taken upon him.
And Shahrizat's father was charged in justice earlier this year following a relentless office for justice by PKR's Rafizi Ramli.
Without investigations opposite a officials in supervision departments who overspend their allocated budgets or indulge in greedy spending, zero would change.
The reforms Najib goes around locale articulate about would come to a zilch as well as only be an additional political ploy to try as well as win a next ubiquitous election.
And yes, we could be looking at an additional Auditor-General's inform which would be most of a same.
Charles Santiago is DAP's MP for Klang.
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