Tuesday November 17, 2009
MACC wraps up its study
PUTRAJAYA: The special team set up by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to study and identify loopholes in the procedures on allocations for elected representatives have completed their work.
Its deputy commissioner Datuk Abu Kassim Mohammed said the team would table its findings to the MACC’s Consultation and Prevention Panel on Nov 24.
“We will let the panel view our findings and throw suggestions and fine tune the study before presenting it to the relevant authorities.
“At the same time, the MACC has asked its state directors to brief elected representatives on how to manage their allocation and the right procedures to prevent abuse or misuse.
“Some may not know that doing things in a certain way is wrong,” he told reporters at a briefing yesterday.
Abu Kassim said the anti-graft body would then point out to the Government the existing loopholes and recommend measures to “close the door” to possibilities of abuse and misuse of allocation.
However, he refused to divulge details on the loopholes found or the recommendations.
The team had been set up in the wake of recent prosecutions of assemblymen and MPs over the misuse of their allocations.
Recently, the MACC took six people to court on multiple counts of graft, including making false claims.
Abu Kassim said MACC’s consultation and prevention division had also made recommendation to certain ministries and agencies, particularly those highlighted in previous Auditor-General’s reports, on how to improve its services and increase efficiency.
This included asking the relevant authorities to set up a committee for hygiene, health and safety of school canteens following food poisoning cases and for Institute Kemahiran Belia Negara to have clear long-term planning so that any equipment purchased were fully utilised.
This suggestion was made as the commission found that some of the equipment purchased by IKBN were left idle as “no one has any idea how to use it”, added Abu Kassim.
On Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat’s fully-sponsored pilgrimage trip, Abu Kassaim refused to “confirm or deny” if it had initiated any investigation.
Nik Aziz had, last Friday, announced that he would not go for the RM65,000-sponsored two-week trip following criticism that such a trip would be highly inappropriate.
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