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- PAC chairman Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said the police force had incurred the biggest …
KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 — Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said today that it will call up five ministries over mismanagement problems highlighted by the Auditor-General’s 2013 report.
The departments in question are the Education Ministry, the Finance Ministry, the Federal Territories Ministry, the Communications and Multimedia Ministry, and the Home Ministry.
PAC chairman Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said the police force had incurred the biggest losses in the AG’s 2013 report (second series) released today, due to the 16-month delay in the construction of the Sentul district police headquarters that had cost the Home Ministry RM73,512 in rent for six months.
“In terms of the amount of losses and the kind of mistakes that were highlighted, the problem was more of management weaknesses than leakages and abuse of power,” Jazlan told a press conference at Parliament here today.
He said the Communications and Multimedia Ministry was the most problematic ministry, pointing out that it had used a RM43.7 million allocation, which was meant for producing content for digital television TV Interactive, to buy programmes for TV1 and TV2 instead.
The Education Ministry would be questioned for ordering a job change on the construction of a school that resulted in cost overruns, he said.
The Finance Ministry, especially the Customs Department, would be questioned on its faulty cargo scanners, where two of the 16 machines that cost RM69 million broke down frequently, according to Jazlan.
The Federal Territories Ministry, meanwhile, was found to have made losses from advertising boards and signs, he said.
