Subject: 418,200 or 41% of Malaysia's civil servants suspected to be involved in corruption
Whoa...so many Malaysia civil servants suspected of corruption...
But having said that I chanced upon a visit to a low ranking Malaysian
civil servant in Malaysia and found he and his family actually lived in
a big bungalow house furnished with fancy gold lined furniture plus many
high tech household amenities.
I was shocked at I saw! He lived more like a "Malay sultan" than a lowly
Malay civil servant ! How does a Malay civil with less than Rm2000 a
month salary afford all that as well as raise so many children !
In contrast, I am very much comforted that our Singapore lowly paid
civil servant are made of much humbler stuff and kept straight and
honest by the system itself.
Greed has no boundary and if not kept in check, it will destroy the soul.
Seriously speaking internal actions cultivate a perception that the
Govt is seeking to protect them.... and even then the possibly with
the protection of the higher-ups or some connecte persons and
compnaies are even higher. It happens even first world or developed
countries too.
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418,200 or 41% of Malaysia's civil servants suspected to be involved in
corruption.
It is shocking that it has been revealed that 41% of public servants
(normally referred to as government servants by governments seeking to
create a mindset that they should be supporters for...and vote for only
the UMNO-led BN. The correct term is 'public servants' and they are
meant to serve the Malaysian public - their loyalty is first to
Malaysians - not the government of the day).
41% - this was revealed by their own union, and the question is why the
lack of actions against these public servants. Maybe, the law need to be
amended to add 'special punishments' for civil servants, i.e.
termination, and maybe even loss of other benefits, including pension
for the more serious offenses.
There must also be publicity as to the nature of these offences - and
the punishments meted out. This will help educate the public - and will
certainly be a deterrent.
TEMERLOH: Cuepacs is alleging that 418,200 or 41% of the 1.2 million
civil servants were suspected to be involved in corruption last year.
Its president Omar Osman said this was worrying and needed to be tackled
urgently.
“To combat the scourge, Cuepacs will work closely with the Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission,” Omar told reporters after opening the
triennial general meeting of one of the affiliates of the umbrella union
here yesterday.
Omar said besides corruption, Cuepacs would also not protect civil
servants with disciplinary problems. For example, playing truant or
forging medical certificates.
“There have been cases where a one-day medical leave was doctored to
read as 11 days,” said Omar. - Star, 3/6/2010, 41% of civil servants
involved in corruption
Should the actions taken against these corrupt civil servants be
internal...and hidden from the public? Or should they be charged in
court, and accorded a fair and open trial? I believe that they should be
charged and tried. Internal actions always gives the perception that the
government is seeking to protect some - possibly the 'higher-ups' or
some connected persons/companies.
PM's residence: '3 days rental could buy 1 low-cost house'
ReplyDeleteAn opposition lawmaker has questioned the need for the government to pay a whopping RM6 million a year for the rental and maintenance of the prime minister's official residence in Putrajaya.
"It's definitely a waste of taxpayers' money. It means we are paying more than RM16,000 a day," Liew Chin Tong of DAP told Malaysiakini.
"We can buy a low-cost house for needy people with three days' worth of rental for the residence," he said.
He noted that the government is also paying a huge sum for the deputy premier's official residence.
In a written parliamentary reply to Liew, PM had revealed that the government forks out RM6 million a year for rental and maintenance works for his official residence, Seri Perdana.
According to the reply, RM4,149,000 is paid as rental to Putrajaya Holdings - the master developer of the federal administrative capital - while the remaining RM1,896,616 is for maintenance works.
The government also pays RM3.4 million (RM2,273,888 for rental and RM1,129,992 for maintenance) for Seri Satria, the deputy premier's official residence.
In total, this works out to about RM26,000 per day for both residences.
Liew, the Bukit Bendera MP said the prime minister and deputy prime minister do not need such "luxurious" residences at the expense of taxpayers, and that the sum can be channelled for better use.
"Look at No 10 Downing Street (the British prime minister's residence), it is just a humble building. Even the White House proper ( US president's residence and office) is smaller than Seri Perdana, which is just a residence," he said.
The government is bound by an agreement with Putrajaya Holdings to pay the sum for 25 years, from the time the first occupant of Seri Perdana - then premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad (left) - moved into the complex in 1999.
'More being paid in rent'
Mahathir had said the Putrajaya project had been funded entirely by the private sector and that government money was not involved. He was fending off criticism over the development of the mega-project.
However Liew pointed out: "We are now paying close to RM1 billion to Putrajaya Holdings annually to rent all the government offices in Putrajaya, and the amount is increasing year by year since the government is occupying more offices."
According to Putrajaya Holdings' official website, its shareholders include Petronas via KLCC (Holdings) Sdn Bhd (64.41 percent); CIMB Group Nominees (Tempatan) Sdn Bhd (for and on behalf of Kumpulan Wang Amanah Negara, 20 percent); and Khazanah Nasional Bhd (15.59 percent).
The Seri Perdana complex, located in Precinct 10, is a sprawling complex that covers 16 hectares and comprises three blocks for a main reception area, banquet facilities and the residential area.
According to AFP, former PM Abdullah lives in the complex with his wife, daughter and son-in-law and their children.
"It is wasteful to spend so much money on renting the prime minister's house when the country is facing such tough times," said opposition parliamentarian Hatta Ramli from PAS.
"Even though the money is going back to a government-linked company, this should not be the case as the government should really own the building the prime minister occupies," he told AFP.
"What happens if the prime minister somehow gets evicted?"
Chief minister of opposition-controlled Penang state Lim Guan Eng questioned the payment of rent to Putrajaya Holdings.
"We can understand paying maintenance, but rental does not make sense," he said.
"This also begs the question as to who are the directors of the company and who gets all the profit made by the company."
RM16 mil spent on renovations
The high cost of building, renovating and maintaining the complex has always been a focal point for the opposition.
ReplyDeleteAccording to figures revealed in the House in 2005, the building of Seri Perdana cost RM24.17 million, with maintenance costing up to RM2.9 million a year. An additional RM15.81 million was spent for renovations that year as well.
It has also been alleged previously that the building actually cost about RM200 million to build.
In 2006, an opposition MP revealed that a whopping RM20 million was allegedly spent for the security system in the premier's official residence.
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This is how our monies (and the next generation) go to all the cronies. The govt need not fund the projects but have to pay in other forms for 20 to 30 years and the contract is binding. What a smart move .... the IPPP, the tolls, the above Putrajaya residents, what else???
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ReplyDeleteTaxpayers forked out RM3.8 billion last year to pay for the salaries of almost 40,000 staff of the Prime Minister's Department and to cover the operating costs of the department and its subordinate agencies.
The department has been given an allocation of RM3.9 billion for this year, to meet its operating costs and salaries of 43,544 personnel.
The expenditure included costs for a secretariat for former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and the Early Childhood Education Unit (Permata), of which the Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's wife Rosmah Mansor is chairperson.
azlanThe figures were released by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Aziz in reply to a question from Taiping MP Nga Kor Ming, who inquired about the number of personnel the department had and how much it spent from 2003 to 2010.
The written answer stated that the department employed 21,405 personnel in 2003, with the number jumping to 43,544 this year, a slightly more than 100 percent jump in seven years.
The reply further said the huge jump in the number of department staff was to accommodate the "addition of new agencies and the increase in staff in departments and agencies".
Some of the new agencies created included a secretariat for former prime minister Abdullah, a secretariat for the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) and the NEAC chairman's office.
Agencies that expanded their workforce included the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim), Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) and Permata.
'Wasteful and a burden on taxpayers'
At a press conference in the Parliament lobby later today, Nga described the huge outlay of staff for the PM's Department as wasteful and a burden on taxpayers. He dismissed the minister's reasons for staff expansion by the department as questionable.
"The entire state government of Perak only employs 7,900 people. The RM4 billion spent by the PM's Department is almost five times the budget of Perak," added the parliamentarian.
Querying why such a huge number of staff was needed by just one government department, Nga said this was indicative of the country's bloated civil service.
"Taiwan, with a population similar to us at 28 million, has only 530,000 government employees. Japan with a 120 million population employs 380,000 civil servants. But Malaysia ,with a population of 28 million, has a civil service of 1.2 milion."
"Why do we need such a huge number of civil servants? In the end, the taxpayers will pay for the cost, especially since some of the departments created, and where staff were increased, have dubious functions," added Nga.
He urged the government to look into the huge ratio of the civil service proportionate to the nation's population and to restructure the government to avoid wastage.
This is not the first time the government or the PM's Department has been accused of wastage by the opposition.
The government has come under fire for alleged 'leakages' in government procurements and the PM's Department has been quizzed on expenses paid by it for 'first lady' Rosmah on her US trip.