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Budget 2021 must to be checked, scrutinised and accountability ensured

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The Budget 2021, not only this, the state government annual budgets, all kinds of budgets need to be thoroughly checked, undergo a detailed scrutiny and ensure that everyone undertaking the roles in the budget are accountable in carrying out its implementations and authorising its handouts. Of course, the parliament and the respective state legislative assemblies are all responsible in ensuring that they play the most effective roles in check and balance to ensure these budgets benefit everyone, not just the few or the elites. The budgets are also not mean for only those elites nor reserved for those feudalistic and symbolic figures. We are in opinion that it is not for those in the feudalistic and symbolic positions to decide on whether this budget should or should not be approved. It is up to the members of parliament and state legislative assemblies to check on these budget when they are being tabled by the finance minister and the respective state menteris besar, chief ministers or...

Rampant corruption in the government. What can be done to stop this?

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Today, the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) celebrates its 53rd anniversary with a remark from the chief commissioner Datuk Seri Azam Baki that corruption with in the government has been getting rampant today despite all its efforts to combat the corrupt practices nationwide. Yes, MACC has been initiating all its efforts to go all out to get rid of such negative element from the public sector ever since, such as education, training, awareness and all other sorts of programs in order to educate and make civil servants aware of the circumstances, penalties, fines and blacklisting. However, none of these efforts are seem to be effective despite going all out. Instead, more and more civil servants are making such practice as the way of earning some lucrative incomes in order to finance their inflated and luxurious expenditures. First of all, why do these civil servants continuing their corrupt practice and worst of all, even many newly recruited civil servants had went into the ...