‘Where’s the Auditor-General’s report?’
By Patrick Lee, FMT
KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat wants to know what has happened to the Auditor-General’s (A-G) report which should have been presented in the Dewan Rakyat before the debate on Budget 2012.
Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim said that it was strange for Parliament to debate the budget before the A-G’s report was presented.
“Unfortunately, we are debating the budget today, but the Auditor-General’s report has not been presented,” Anwar told the Dewan Rakyat today.
He said this while presenting his response to Najib’s Friday announcement of Budget 2012.
“To my understanding, perhaps the house secretary can check; (this has) not happened before… that the Auditor-General’s report has not been presented before the budget was debated,” he added.
Anwar, the PKR-Permatang Pauh MP, asked if this was a government tactic to prevent MPs from discussing the A-G report’s contents.
The A-G’s report is an internal audit of the government’s departments.
In previous years, the report has revealed financial irregularities and excesses in a number of government procurement processes.