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Friday, November 21, 2014

What is 'excellent' to the Auditor-General may be an OBSCENITY to others in the civil service

What is 'excellent' to the Auditor-General may be an OBSCENITY to others in the civil service
23 out of 24, or 96% Federal Ministries were rated “excellent” in the latest Auditor-General’s Report.
Under this “excellent” rate, it was discovered that:
7,712 assets worth at least RM44 million were lost from the Health Ministry.
RM12 million had been paid to dead pensioners.
A civil servant who was found committing fraud and pocketed RM1 million was let off scot-free without any legal action by the authorities.
Usage of virtual learning environment (VLE) costing RM600 million achieved only 33% utilization; and many more other malpractices that would disgust anyone as much as the scandal behind the BN government’s US$3 billion letter of support issued to 1MDB.
Wait, do all these financial scandals made public in the Auditor-General’s Report bear any meaning to anyone besides the media and Opposition who went frenzy highlighting the ‘absurdness’ of the malpractices that took place annually?
Where are the corrective actions to prevent those frauds from happening again and again? What have the authorities done to rectify the situation all these years?
How many were dragged forward to face justice in court due to the expose made in the Auditor-General’s Report? How many were let off the hook just like the civil servant from the Account-General’s department who managed to swindle RM1 million from the public coffer?
The people are not expecting that there would be no cases of financial malpractices given the huge number of government departments and subsidiaries of statutory bodies.
They hope to see at least some improvement in the number of frauds or scale of financial scandals on a year-to-year basis.
But does anyone in authority actually care about the Auditor-General’s Report?
Is there any Cabinet minister who insists on making good use of the Auditor-General’s report to formulate a strategy to overcome the weaknesses and loopholes in administration and financial management?
Sadly, no.
What we have today is the result of inaction by the government. Government administration and financial management remain messy and civil servants continue to mingle in corruption without fear of getting caught or punished.
With all these obscene administrative and financial malpractices, one has to really wonder what “excellent” actually means in the Auditor-General’s Report as a measurement for the quality of governance and corruption rate of civil service. For now, it really means nothing other than a remark for the government to feel good about its poor financial performance.
Until there is a concentrated effort to turn the Auditor-General’s Report into some kind of corrective and preventive action manual to improve the government’s administration and financial management, this report would only serve as a source for media hype during its annual release to the public.
And with Malaysians’ ‘forgetfulness’, things will only get worse. - HARAKAHDAILY

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