Chief Sec promises action against culprits fingered in audit report

Government departments named in the recently released Auditor-General’s Report to have abused their power and indulged in financial irregularities would be investigated and those responsible would have to face the law, said Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan.

“Those who deliberately broke the rules will be brought to book through investigations to be conducted by a special task force, which has just been set up,” he said today in his speech at a dinner at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre for retiring civil servants and those who have been promoted to the senior level.

Earlier today, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced the setting up a high-powered task force, headed by Mohd Sidek, to study the 2008 Auditor-General’s Report and initiate appropriate action against those responsible for financial irregularities and abuse of power mentioned in the report.

Najib said the setting up of the task force had received the green light from the Cabinet, which met today, and was in line with the government’s effort to realise a high performance culture in the civil service.

The task force will also include Finance Ministry Secretary-General Tan Sri Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah, Public Service Department Director-General Tan Sri Ismail Adam and Auditor-General Tan Sri Ambrin Buang himself.

They will have the power to rope in Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission if the need arises.

Mohd Sidek said the task force would have its first meeting on Monday


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Isn't Sidek the guy who was supposed to investigate PKFZ last time but didn't do so? Quoted from DAP website:

He should explain to the Malaysian public why he had failed in the past two years to carry out the Cabinet decision in July 2007 when it resolved on the RM4.6 billion bailout of PKFZ, including giving retrospective approval to the four illegal Letters of Support unlawfully given by the two previous Transport Ministers, Tun Dr. Ling Liong Sik and Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy, that the Chief Secretary should conduct an inquiry as to how the four Letters of Support could have issued unlawfully and to take the necessary disciplinary actions against the culprits who have now landed the country with a RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal.

It's very easy to stop these thievery once and for all. Just book those who committed an act of dishonesty and throw them in jail. I can guarantee you that all the nonsense will stop immediately. The reason why this is repeating every year is that those who stole from us, and they are no small fish, got away scot free. Simple as that.