TI-M: Take audit report seriously, sack errant officers
Published: Oct 3, 2013 3:05 AM | Updated: Oct 3, 2013 3:56 PM
Civil servants who adopt a lackadaisical attitude towards public funds as found in the Auditor-General’s Report should be immediately sacked, Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) said.
Civil servants who adopt a lackadaisical attitude towards public funds as found in the Auditor-General’s Report should be immediately sacked, Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) said.
The report, which identified millions of ringgit in losses due to mismanagement of projects and departments, is making a mockery out of the government, TI-M’s president Akhbar Satar said. The corruption watchdog warned that if no serious efforts were taken to punish errant civil servants, the country will then suffer more losses every year.
“There can be no two ways about it. If they fail to comply, they should be immediately removed from their jobs instead of being given a desk job or reassigned to another department,” Akhbar said in a press statement.
“Bad examples are set when senior staff continue to plunder the system, without fear of repercussions on their job security.”
Akhbar (right) said that the 1.4 million civil service staff must strive to emulate the private sector where “deadwood” are removed.
“TI-M feels that the civil service in Malaysia is currently a ‘fattened calf’ that needs to be trimmed down, especially when the economic times are tough," he said.
It singled out two of the many violations found in the Auditor-General’s Report.
It cited the US$58.2 million poorly planned purchase of a Beechcraft King Air 350 in 2005 as an example of such a government failure, and perhaps reason why Malaysia recently ranked poorly in a transparency survey of its defence spending.
TI-M also questioned what the Communications and Culture Ministry is going to do about a senior officer who made a RM303,813 travel claim for a four-day study tour to Geneva, Switzerland.
This “improper claim” was reported by the auditor-general as part of the ministry’s RM800 million attempt to set up the Medical Emergency Response Service (MERS) 999.
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The report, which identified millions of ringgit in losses due to mismanagement of projects and departments, is making a mockery out of the government, TI-M’s president Akhbar Satar said. The corruption watchdog warned that if no serious efforts were taken to punish errant civil servants, the country will then suffer more losses every year.
“There can be no two ways about it. If they fail to comply, they should be immediately removed from their jobs instead of being given a desk job or reassigned to another department,” Akhbar said in a press statement.
“Bad examples are set when senior staff continue to plunder the system, without fear of repercussions on their job security.”Akhbar (right) said that the 1.4 million civil service staff must strive to emulate the private sector where “deadwood” are removed.
“TI-M feels that the civil service in Malaysia is currently a ‘fattened calf’ that needs to be trimmed down, especially when the economic times are tough," he said.
It singled out two of the many violations found in the Auditor-General’s Report.
It cited the US$58.2 million poorly planned purchase of a Beechcraft King Air 350 in 2005 as an example of such a government failure, and perhaps reason why Malaysia recently ranked poorly in a transparency survey of its defence spending.
TI-M also questioned what the Communications and Culture Ministry is going to do about a senior officer who made a RM303,813 travel claim for a four-day study tour to Geneva, Switzerland.
This “improper claim” was reported by the auditor-general as part of the ministry’s RM800 million attempt to set up the Medical Emergency Response Service (MERS) 999.
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