Urgent need to have a Parliamentary Select Committee on Corruption and Abuses and Wastage of Public Funds with revelation of RM40 billion to RM60 billion losses due to corruption every year


(Versi BM)

There is an urgent need to have a Parliamentary Select Committee on Corruption and Abuses/Wastage of Public Funds with the revelation of RM40 billion to RM60 billion losses in Malaysia due to corruption every year.

According to #RasuahBusters team leader Datuk Hussamuddin Yaacub, based on the Global Financial Integrity Report 2017, Malaysia lost a whopping RM1.8 trillion between 2005 and 2014, partly due to corrupt practices that have resulted in illicit financial flows.

Hussamuddin said this figure could have been utilised for public welfare and five sets of Budget 2020 that would benefit the public.

He said former auditor-general Tan Sri Ambrin Buang had once concluded that corruption and mismanagement resulted in up to 30% of Malaysia’s public projects losing their value.

He said that the country can save up to RM400 billion, if Malaysia pay 30% less for goods and services provided by contractors and vendors in the 12th Malaysia Plan.

These are gargantuan figures which warrant the formation of a parliamentary select committee on corruption and abuses and wastage of public funds before the end of the current Parliamentary session.

This is urgent and imperative especially as Malaysians are waiting in dread for the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2021 early next year, where Malaysia is expected to ranked and scored poorly, reflecting a worsening of the anti-corruption effort in Malaysia in the past year.

Prime Minister Ismail Sabri’s “Keluarga Malaysia” concept cannot based on a Malaysia which is regarded nationally and internationally as increasingly corrupt, which is also against the Rukun Negara nation-building principle of “courtesy and morality”.

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Corruption and Abuses/Wastage of Public Funds should conduct an investigation into the Global Financial Integrity Reports as well as the poor ranking and scoring of Malaysia in the TI CPI reports.

The time has come for Malaysians to demand greater transparency and accountability on the subject, especially with the superfluous appointment of advisers for the Prime Minister when he had Cabinet Ministers looking after the portfolio, the appointment of superfluous envoys for regions when there are ambassadors appointed to each country, and the appointment of “dud” GLC appointmnents.

For instance, is it true that the Prime Minister’s special envoy to the Middle East has been banned from Saudi Arabia and had never visited Saudi Arabia for the whole term of his appointment?

If so, what kind of a special envoy to the Middle East is this?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 2nd December 2021)


Keperluan mendesak untuk mewujudkan Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen mengenai Rasuah dan Penyalahgunaan serta Pembaziran Dana Awam susulan pendedahan kerugian akibat rasuah setiap tahun yang berjumlah RM40 bilion hingga RM60 bilion

Terdapat keperluan mendesak untuk mewujudkan Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen mengenai Rasuah dan Penyalahgunaan serta Pembaziran Dana Awam susulan pendedahan kerugian akibat rasuah setiap tahun yang berjumlah RM40 bilion hingga RM60 bilion.

Menurut ketua pasukan #RasuahBusters Datuk Hussamuddin Yaacub, berdasarkan Laporan Integriti Kewangan Global 2017, Malaysia kerugian RM1.8 trilion antara 2005 dan 2014, sebahagiannya disebabkan oleh amalan rasuah menerusi aliran kewangan tidak sah.

Hussamuddin berkata, wang ini boleh digunakan untuk kebajikan awam dan lima set Bajet 2020 yang akan memberi manfaat kepada orang ramai.

Beliau berkata bekas ketua juruaudit negara Tan Sri Ambrin Buang pernah membuat kesimpulan bahawa rasuah dan salah urus mengakibatkan sehingga 30% projek awam Malaysia kehilangan nilainya.

Beliau berkata, negara boleh jimat sehingga RM400 bilion, jika Malaysia membayar 30% kurang untuk barangan dan perkhidmatan yang disediakan oleh kontraktor dan vendor dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ke-12.

Ini adalah tokoh besar yang mewajarkan pembentukan jawatankuasa pilihan parlimen mengenai rasuah dan penyalahgunaan serta pembaziran dana awam sebelum berakhirnya sesi Parlimen.

Perkara ini amat mendesak dan penting terutamanya kerana rakyat Malaysia sedang menunggu dengan resah laporan Indeks Persepsi Rasuah (CPI) Transparency International (TI) 2021 yang akan dikeluarkan awal tahun depan, di mana Malaysia dijangka berada di kedudukan dan mendapat markah yang teruk, mencerminkan usaha anti-rasuah yang semakin teruk di Malaysia pada tahun lepas.

Konsep “Keluarga Malaysia” Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri tidak boleh berlandaskan Malaysia yang dianggap dan dilihat di peringkat nasional dan antarabangsa sebagai semakin korup, yang juga bertentangan dengan prinsip pembinaan negara Rukun Negara iaitu “kesopanan dan kesusilaan”.

Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Parlimen mengenai Rasuah dan Penyalahgunaan/Pembaziran Dana Awam harus menjalankan siasatan ke atas Laporan Integriti Kewangan Global serta kedudukan dan pemarkahan Malaysia yang lemah dalam laporan TI CPI.

Sudah tiba masanya untuk rakyat Malaysia menuntut ketelusan dan akauntabiliti yang lebih tinggi mengenai perkara itu, terutamanya dengan pelantikan penasihat yang berlebihan untuk Perdana Menteri apabila beliau mempunyai Menteri Kabinet yang menjaga portfolio, pelantikan duta khas sedangkan terdapat duta yang dilantik untuk setiap negara, dan lantikan dalam GLC yang “tidak berguna”.

Sebagai contoh, adakah benar duta khas Perdana Menteri ke Timur Tengah tidak dibenarkan ke Arab Saudi dan tidak pernah melawat Arab Saudi sepanjang tempoh pelantikannya?

Jika ya, apakah jenis duta khas ke Timur Tengah ini?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 2 Disember 2021)

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