Throw away the AG report
There is no point in the Auditor-General coming out with his report every year when those consistently bleeding the nation’s coffers are let off the hook every time
G Vinod, FMT
Year in year out, the Auditor-General’s Report tells us a story. It tells a true story on how billions in taxpayers money go down the drain through corruption and wastage.
Year in and year out, a lot of oppositions MPs and NGOs would demand for the government to take action against those responsible for the mess.
Year in and year out, the law enforcement agencies such as the MACC would make bold announcements that they would get to the bottom of the matter.
And year in year out, none responsible are hauled up to the court of law despite the initial tough rhetoric by the enforcement agencies.
And the same vicious cycle repeats itself again and again.
Now, the government is mulling releasing the audit report thrice a year. But the simple question here is, what the hell for?
We can even release the audit report weekly but if no action is taken against those responsible for bleeding the nation’s coffers, it will be status quo till the end of time, or until Malaysia goes bust.
And Malaysians, while they may not be so forgiving on issues like race and religion, seems to be very forgiving on this matter. Yes, a little noise in the beginning and but it would water down after a few months.
So with such apathy and lack of enforcement, do we really expect anything to change? Worse, we still seem to be voting in the same government every five years.
No one to blame but ourselves
And where is PAS Youth with all this happening? Instead of frothing at mouth and holding demonstrations when foreign artistes come to perform here, they should come out demonising wastage and corruption, which in fact, is the real cause of decadence in a society.
From what it seems, many of us do not realise how much damage corruption is doing to the country. A lot of us do not realise that Malaysia does not have deep pockets to sustain the economy.
