Singapore auditors find irregularities in ministries

laurence82 SG

its more than irregularities

its the bureacracy and the numerous layers from top to bottom which scare me

i mean, what do we need a minister of state for?

or that people are given a career path based on education background than performance

Trump_Card SG

In a nutshell , they are corrupt ? Rolling Eyes

missqi SG

Laughing
I smell some covering up....soon.

kawasaki2 SG

There is a lot of covering up, and I wouldn't mind exposing those son of a bastar*s whom I know about publicly.

kawasaki2 SG

Write out every single cover-up and irregularity that you know really well about, and see what happens next.

kawasaki2 SG

YES THEY ARE.

foomwee88 SG

EDB might have lost more than US $50 million in UNSW Asia's saga.

No wonder my ex-neighbour's son as a manager of EDB can drive a M 280 car and brought a condominium at Orchard Road .

Hahaha ,Sillyporeans!!!

BillyBong SG

Just like Sean Lee, who absconded with over 500K of SRU funding before disappearing into thin air, can we truly expect that the entire group of ministeries to be clean and honest?

There will always be some tempted by the lure of quick and easy money, and embezzlement immediately comes to mind. Now that such ghastly discrepancies have been made public, how will the ministeries respond? In particular, how will MM Lee respond to this breach in integrity which he prides so well?

The ministers are probably not corrupt, but it is a minority of people below them who work in compartmentalized offices, holding positions which entail TRUST, that will probably be the most likely targets of temptation.

Can anyone build up such a reputation, only to have it come tumbling down like a stack of cards?

Can our govt claim that high wages starve off corruption? If this report is proven to be FACT, the litmus test of high pay vs corruption may just have failed...with disasterous consequences.

SevenEleven SG

i’m suprised as everything had been legalised

soul_rage SG

haha of coz I made the comments in jest

I am just forecasting what the govt will say.

How many times some screw up happens, and no one is accountable, and they use the same old excuse that most Singaporeans are stupid, so there is no one to replace the smart people

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Er... how do we even know the ministers aren't corrupt when we haven't even heard of audits done on their office finances?

But that aside, I agree with most of your points.

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Indeed indeed.

And one immediately notes that OM and that troll Gazelle isn't in this thread defending the Govt's talents. Laughing

stellazio SG

the government will change the FRS to suit their needs. Laughing

stellazio SG

btw which audit firm was this?

robertteh SG

Paper cannot wrap fire. Eventually with so many NKF type of wrongdoings, being exposed which are mainly caused by autocracy and lack of accountability, the ministers will have no choice but to do something.

It will take years for autocracy to free up so that there will be teamwork for efficient, creative and result-oriented governance and greater accountability and transparency, the only way to ensure good management and results.

Ex-president Ong Teng Cheong was right - they are not willing to present the true picture of assets and hidden land sale profits and that is why taxes have to go up causing loss of economic competitiveness and losing of jobs under wrong policies.

Auditing is only a wayang kulit considering that same auditor did not report many wrongful acts and omissions until public pressures come due to NKF.

The government is practising double taxations and making of secret profits on land and asset sales through ministries and GLCs and these are not yet discovered.

mistyblue SG

Chey! One look across the board, even the uncle and aunties who sweep our floors will tell you there is governance issue when the PM is also the Minister of finance and his wife manages Temasek and father owns GIC.

This is just the tip of the ice berg.

Trump_Card SG

That's nepotism...

soul_rage SG

Hey that's the power of the PAP

Lots of things are open secrets, but we cannot say it, or we will be sued, coz they will ask you to show proof. And if you cannot show proof, you will be accused of making groundless accusations.

The beauty of PAP is that everything is in your face, but there is no concrete proof

soul_rage SG

Well they behave like the govt. They choose and pick battles which they can win to fight.

robertteh SG

To win a battle for the sake of winning without being supported strongly by a worthwhile cause or effective execution is being adversarial or confrontational.

It will be counter-productive for a lawyer to fight a losing case when fundamental and basic problems are being perpetuated.

But do our lawyer leaders have the perspective of not engaging in unnecessary confrontations just for the sake of proving his legalistic wrangling on fallacious arguments for argument sake in every case,

If this has been their perspective then sad to say they would not have the holistic talents needed of a good leader. A good leader should always understand the pros and cons in every situation and not get into unnecessary fight for the sake of fighting like in a court case.

There are many issues of nation building which are yet to be truly understood by our leaders. So far despite some initial ground works and partial success they are being carried away thinking it was a grand success.

Despite all the glaring mistakes and incompetencies which are useless to defend yet they keep defending what are untenable with legalistic wrangling of laws and regulations without clearly defined objectives of what they want to achieve for themselves and for the citizens who trusted them for years.

People have given constant feedbacks yet problems are not solved and they are not able to prove anything new or policies are still working well.

For example, if the ministers want to bring about an education hub they have to be thorough and strategic not only in conceptualizing the hub but be totally excellent in implementation.

What is shown in UNSW is an example of shallow thinking, sub-standard plan inconsistent execution for all the problems like enrolments should have been anticipated and many preemptive measures carried out with the inputs and personal supervision by one of the key ministers. So how do the ministers or their agents defend failures.

Even if such a policy is good but if the execution is poor or inconsistent without carefully coordinated efforts to bring it to success ministers would be seen as lacking ability no matter how good is the policy.

So if UNSW flops within 3 months, there must be something seriously wrong and people would ask where are the shortcomings or setback or flaws of execution.

The irregularities discovered by the AG may be just a tip of the iceberg. People are now expecting more to be done to uncover wrongful spending of monies by every ministry and department.

If ministers want to contend and deny problems they will have the more difficult task or responsibility of taking more effective actions to stop the rot or else more NKF worms will come out.

Any self-approval or taking of people's monies by the ministers like the world's highest pays is legally and morally wrong and is more corrupted than leaving corruptions to take care of itself.

Yet people do not accept them to this day even if ministers have for years been selling this policy to reward themselves based on some fallacious benchmarking. What is wrong is wrong and cannot be made right. They are not the equal of Wee Chaw Yau or Bill Gate or Li Ka Shing but they claim to be so.

This is not something which can be easily excused no matter how right or desirable is the policy to promote meritocrasy or attract talents into public service as execution should not be self-centred or hypocritic.

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