KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 — Only one government officer from a total of 108 recommended for punitive action by the Auditor-General in its 2012 report had been sacked, Chief Secretary to the government, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa revealed today.
Ali said other officers found guilty had been either fined or warned and had their emoluments frozen, adding that the actions proved government seriousness in weeding out corruption as often highlighted by the AG department in its yearly audit.
He defended the government against allegations of graft and claimed the cases of financial misappropriation in the respective ministries have decreased bar a few minor exceptions.
“If you look at the numbers you can see the cases have decreased and there are no recurrences in the respective ministries,” Ali told a town hall meeting on the third series of the 2013 AG report.
“But there are some offences repeated in different ministries although generaly the trend is downwards,” he added.
For 2013 and in the first and second series of the report, Ali said 80 punitive recommendations were made and 19 recommendations involving 48 officers have been identified for disciplinary proceeding.
He added that 55 of the recommendations had no strong basis for action since it did not involve irregularities but “weaknesses in the system, procedure and current regulations.”
Meanwhile for the 2012 report out of 111 punitive recommendations, 100 were acted upon with 175 officials implicated, leading to 85 being penalised while 23 were found to be innocent.
Ali said the government’s transformation programme had enabled immediate action to be taken to rectify the problems highlighted by the AG while for punitive recommendations, disciplinary committees were immediately convened after the preliminary AG report was tabled in Parliament.
“I think we are the only country that presents its AG report and holds a town hall meeting like this.
“It shows how open we are. We should give credit to Malaysia,” he said.
Yesterday Tun Daim Zainuddin urged the Najib administration to sack government officials responsible for the millions in wasted funds noted by federal auditors as an example for others not to repeat the same mistakes
The still-influential former finance minister said the inefficacy of Putrajaya’s disciplinary action over wastage contained in the Auditor-General’s Report was evident from the increased number of financial irregularities highlighted in the final series of the 2013 report released yesterday.
The final series of A-G’s Report for 2013 was released yesterday to the usual teeth-gnashing from the public that greets the annual highlights of the financial mismanagement and abuses by government that cost taxpayers billions of ringgit each year.
One of the more notable scandals that arose from the reports’ findings was the RM250 million National Feedlot Centre issue in 2012, which had then cost Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil her seat in the Cabinet.
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Ali said other officers found guilty had been either fined or warned and had their emoluments frozen, adding that the actions proved government seriousness in weeding out corruption as often highlighted by the AG department in its yearly audit.
He defended the government against allegations of graft and claimed the cases of financial misappropriation in the respective ministries have decreased bar a few minor exceptions.
“If you look at the numbers you can see the cases have decreased and there are no recurrences in the respective ministries,” Ali told a town hall meeting on the third series of the 2013 AG report.
“But there are some offences repeated in different ministries although generaly the trend is downwards,” he added.
For 2013 and in the first and second series of the report, Ali said 80 punitive recommendations were made and 19 recommendations involving 48 officers have been identified for disciplinary proceeding.
He added that 55 of the recommendations had no strong basis for action since it did not involve irregularities but “weaknesses in the system, procedure and current regulations.”
Meanwhile for the 2012 report out of 111 punitive recommendations, 100 were acted upon with 175 officials implicated, leading to 85 being penalised while 23 were found to be innocent.
Ali said the government’s transformation programme had enabled immediate action to be taken to rectify the problems highlighted by the AG while for punitive recommendations, disciplinary committees were immediately convened after the preliminary AG report was tabled in Parliament.
“I think we are the only country that presents its AG report and holds a town hall meeting like this.
“It shows how open we are. We should give credit to Malaysia,” he said.
Yesterday Tun Daim Zainuddin urged the Najib administration to sack government officials responsible for the millions in wasted funds noted by federal auditors as an example for others not to repeat the same mistakes
The still-influential former finance minister said the inefficacy of Putrajaya’s disciplinary action over wastage contained in the Auditor-General’s Report was evident from the increased number of financial irregularities highlighted in the final series of the 2013 report released yesterday.
The final series of A-G’s Report for 2013 was released yesterday to the usual teeth-gnashing from the public that greets the annual highlights of the financial mismanagement and abuses by government that cost taxpayers billions of ringgit each year.
One of the more notable scandals that arose from the reports’ findings was the RM250 million National Feedlot Centre issue in 2012, which had then cost Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil her seat in the Cabinet.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/only-one-official-sacked-so-far-over-ag-report-chief-secretary-says#sthash.ndY3OtDK.dpuf
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