GEORGE TOWN, Jan 12 — Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his state executive councillors publicly declared their assets today, fulfilling a pledge by the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government to stay accountable to the people.
“The Penang state government has now proven that it is not only cleaner physically, but also cleaner and more transparent in administration.
“We have shown that we are serious about national integrity by publicly declaring the personal assets of our topmost officials, the state executive council (exco),” Lim said in a statement here.
He explained that today’s asset declaration was one of the six “integrity measures” he had proposed for the Penang PR government in line with its CAT (Competency, Accountability, Transparency) principles.
Apart from the declaration, the six measures also include a ban on the involvement of political parties in businesses, which Lim said “can only lead to conflict of interest”.
“How can politics mix with business as the former seeks to uphold public interests whereas the latter is to pursue private benefit and profit?” he said, while citing MCA as an example of how political parties amass wealth through its involvement in businesses.
Lim also pointed to the state’s strict open tender system as another CAT measure, aimed at preventing cronyism in the awarding of business contracts.
Such a system, he said, could avoid lopsided contracts like those awarded to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and toll concessionaires.
Lim said the federal government’s failure to practise open tender had led to the whopping RM1.08 trillion in illicit capital flight in Malaysia from 2000 to 2009, and scandals like the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) controversy.
“No wonder in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index, Malaysia dropped to 60th place in 2011 as compared to 37th in 2003 when Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi first took over as prime minister.
“In contrast Penang was praised by TI for implementing open tenders,” he said.
Other CAT proposals include the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act, the implementation of recommendations by the 2005 Royal Commission on the Enhancement of the Management and Operation of the Royal Malaysian Police, and punishing the Election Commission (EC) for failing to act against election offences.
Seriously wonder when will all these good for nothing mother fucking whore of a overpaid millionaire ministers of the leegime will do likewise & answer to every cent of their assets as most of them are PAP dogs even before they left school except for a few that was "seconded" from the private sector!
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“The Penang state government has now proven that it is not only cleaner physically, but also cleaner and more transparent in administration.
“We have shown that we are serious about national integrity by publicly declaring the personal assets of our topmost officials, the state executive council (exco),” Lim said in a statement here.
He explained that today’s asset declaration was one of the six “integrity measures” he had proposed for the Penang PR government in line with its CAT (Competency, Accountability, Transparency) principles.
Apart from the declaration, the six measures also include a ban on the involvement of political parties in businesses, which Lim said “can only lead to conflict of interest”.
“How can politics mix with business as the former seeks to uphold public interests whereas the latter is to pursue private benefit and profit?” he said, while citing MCA as an example of how political parties amass wealth through its involvement in businesses.
Lim also pointed to the state’s strict open tender system as another CAT measure, aimed at preventing cronyism in the awarding of business contracts.
Such a system, he said, could avoid lopsided contracts like those awarded to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and toll concessionaires.
Lim said the federal government’s failure to practise open tender had led to the whopping RM1.08 trillion in illicit capital flight in Malaysia from 2000 to 2009, and scandals like the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) controversy.
“No wonder in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index, Malaysia dropped to 60th place in 2011 as compared to 37th in 2003 when Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi first took over as prime minister.
“In contrast Penang was praised by TI for implementing open tenders,” he said.
Other CAT proposals include the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act, the implementation of recommendations by the 2005 Royal Commission on the Enhancement of the Management and Operation of the Royal Malaysian Police, and punishing the Election Commission (EC) for failing to act against election offences.
Seriously wonder when will all these good for nothing mother fucking whore of a overpaid millionaire ministers of the leegime will do likewise & answer to every cent of their assets as most of them are PAP dogs even before they left school except for a few that was "seconded" from the private sector!
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