theSun’s investigative journalist Citizen Nades is at it again.
As usual, he continues to write the way he does best, investigative journalism with no holds barred.
This time, it’s despicable to find out his latest discovery, or at the very least, shocking enough if I’m to read the figures right, what’s more when the minister at stake strutted across the room with two uncontested win in the last two general elections.
Not an easy feat, one might say.
However, with the exposed dirty numbers, even though it’s merely the tip of iceberg (as some might say), as far as we are concern, can one safely assume that complacency is one of the many factors that lead to disaster too?
Not convinced? Let the numbers tell the story of how your money goes down the drain.
- Grants – RM1.18 million
- Meals and Accommodation – RM2.1 million
- Media and Advertising – RM932,000
- Post and Production – RM710,000
- Printing and Stationery – RM710,000
- Rental of Equipment – RM865,400
- Volunteers’ Allowances – RM242,000
- Wages – RM117,700
- Entertainment – RM1.4 million
- Traveling and Transportation – RM858,000
Staggering amount of money. No? How about the whopping RM1.4 million of entertainment expenditure?
Hence, by all means, if there is any point that Citizen Nades is trying to make via his latest article, it must be an urgent need to put a mechanism in place to counter check and balance, on top of "telling us the truth, nothing but the truth" which the director-general and the board members owe us – the taxpayers.
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ACA not interested ? Somebody should lodged some reports. It is our money.
Sicko
16 April 2008
[...] Source: The Sun, via skthew.com [...]
Thanks for highlighting this,. Have been busy at my "new" work.
printing charges and stationery for more than RM700,000 a year. There must be a mountain of phamplets! goodness, a MNC doesnt spend that kind of money a year for printing and stationery.
wondering whether printing and stationery includes premium items such as silver-laced dairies etc.