Govt To Clarify Issues In Auditor General S Report Via Town Hall

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The government will revive the town hall session, which will be a platform for ministries and secretaries-general (KSUs) to inform people about actions taken on the findings of the Auditor General’s Report (LKAN).
Chief Secretary to the Government Mohd Zuki Ali said he instructed the Public Service Department (PSD) to carry out the town hall session to allow KSUs to provide clarification on the measures taken in response to issues raised in the LKAN.
“We’ve had the town hall session before, and I have instructed the PSD to do the same thing... we will revive the town hall session to clarify the issues raised in LKAN.
“Insya-Allah, we will inform the actions we take through this town hall session. I have instructed the PSD to hold the session and call KSU to respond,” he said in an interview to mark the first anniversary of the government.
The town hall session with the media following the tabling of LKAN was previously held in 2015, 2016, and 2017, with the chief secretary, KSU, department heads, and government servants in attendance.
On Nov 22, LKAN 2022 revealed that RM681.71 million in public funds were identified as losses in six government programmes following 16 performance audits conducted on 14 ministries involving RM208.882 billion.
Auditor General Wan Suraya Wan Mohd Radzi said the six programmes were:
Paddy Planting Management Programme
Langkawi Development Authority (Lada) Property Development Management
Management and regulation of firearms of the departments and agencies under the Home Ministry
Management of the Marine Protected Area Conversation Programme
Investment Promotion Programme for the Manufacturing Sector
Management of the Safe City Programme
On Anwar’s call for department heads to minute all discussions regarding the LKAN, Zuki (above) said it proved the prime minister viewed the LKAN findings seriously and did not want the public service to make the same mistakes again.
Zuki said he would examine all minuted LKAN reports at the ministry and department levels before bringing them to the prime minister’s attention.
Minute all audit report discussions
On Nov 6, Anwar, in his speech at the monthly assembly with the staff of the Prime Minister’s Department, called on all department heads, directors-general, and secretaries-general to minute all discussions regarding the LKAN before handing it over to the chief secretary.
The prime minister said the LKAN needed to be re-examined to improve administrative governance, in addition to being able to identify and reduce leakages in the country’s administration.
Meanwhile, Zuki said that to eradicate corruption and improve administrative governance, the government would introduce the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) as a continuation of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACP) 2019-2023.
“This proves that the prime minister’s focus this time is not solely on the enforcement of misconduct or punishing those found guilty.
“It is even more than that; he wants to see that good governance practices start with the civil servants themselves,” he said.
- Bernama

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