Same old stories
The MACC must not just give us annual reports like the AG’s Office does. Please, tell us frankly how many people involved in the misappropriation of funds highlighted in last year’s AG’s Report has been probed? And how many of them have been prosecuted and convicted?
Lim Mun Fah, Sin Chew Daily
Every year, the Auditor General’s Office will have to come out with its regular reports, and absurd stories will be repeated year after year.
Initially we might feel shocked, and later it might be anger and helplessness. Today, perhaps we might just get so used to this crap that we no longer feel anything about it.
RTM, PDRM, Customs Dept, JPN, schools, airports, health ministry, housing and local government ministry, and the list goes on and on. Enough! Such problems have persisted stubbornly in our government agencies and statutory institutions, squandering astronomical amounts of tax payers’ money.
Those found guilty of mismanagement remain so, while those found abusing their powers would continue to do the same, possibly even at aggravated proportions.
A RM100 clock can be bought at very much inflated price of RM3,810. Not just one, but 20! A RM200 scanner could be priced 73 times higher. And these are the exact repetitions of past absurdities whereby RM5,700 was spent on a car jack worth no more than RM50, and RM84,640 on only two notebook computers.
Undeniably, the Auditor General has done his job well, but what next? Will anyone follow up and will any action be taken against any offender at all?
The AG’s Report shouldn’t lie idle just as another report. Now that the evil doers have been exposed, it is time to round them up.
Malaysians are no longer contented with the annual reports per se. They want to see actions taken.
After the report has been released, and in the midst of gross frustration and sighs of disbelief, the MACC would always tell us they are going to open the files and investigate. But, has any action actually been taken against the offenders?
The MACC must not just give us annual reports like the AG’s Office does. Please, tell us frankly how many people involved in the misappropriation of funds highlighted in last year’s AG’s Report has been probed? And how many of them have been prosecuted and convicted?
Please, stop telling us you will open how many files and investigate without doing anything more substantial than this.
The Customs Dept must stop buying over 7,000 pairs of unfitting shoes worth in excess of RM600,000 with tax payers’ money and then discard them. This amount of money is sufficient to help many impoverished families through their perennial hardships.
The education ministry must stop hiring large numbers of septuagenarians to guard our schools. The RM2 billion saved is enough to build many schools for our children.
With government debts running high, there is a limit as to how far we can tolerate such blatant acts of corruption and power abuse. Every single cent misused or squandered must be returned to the national coffers, and anyone found guilty of fund mishandling must be charged in a court.
Those who sleep on their jobs must be properly dealt with and those mismanaged their departments must be removed from office.
There is no way we can condone those who are corrupt, otherwise irreparable damages will be wrought on the morality and value system in these government agencies. Like the wild fire that has gone out of control, the integrity of the entire society will be jeopardised and confidence crisis will ensue, hauling with it the fate of the entire nation and its people.
