Amazing, surely.
Going by some Ministerial, Departmental and Agencial(?) pronouncements made over the last few days following the Auditor General’s revelations of financial, urm, miscrepancies (heh!), Tan Sri Ambrin had better get his crew sorted out as they apparently got did not do such a bang up job.
The so-called mismanagement of public funding in supposedly exorbitant procurements giving margins even Kedai 1Malaysia can’t discount for, below board directly negotiated deals, freebies and et cetera are explainable after all.
The latest: “Of that total, 5,742 were slaughtered up to November 2010. Therefore, the target of 8,000 cattle by 2010 was met. It is a success.”
Or this days-old one: “So we admit that the report is true, but we did not overspend. In fact our promotion budget was the lowest in 2009 and 2010, but the amount of direct [negotiations were] higher because we wanted to go right on and get as much value for money as possible.”
See, Tan Sri. Your Audit boys and girls muffed up in their auditing of the Public fund expenditures.
All is either well, explainable or accounted for. EPF non-gomen guaranteed RM55bil loan, Giatmara's sweet decimal mistake, racehorses that don’t race.
Wait. Have the Malaysian Marine Parks Department explained their hefty purchases?
No? Perhaps the higheesh price tags are due to maintenance fees being thrown in.
That’s it. All the man hours needed the service the binoculars and other items post purchase must surely needs to accounted for, don't they?
Something like the good money we paid for the two submarines, lah.
Of no particular relevance to the above posting, I am now reminded of one Harry Hoo, a side character from the campy TV show, Get Smart who goes around saying: "Amazing.." whenever Smart makes his, urm, smart deductions.
Amazing. Simply amazing.
Say it Harry Hoo style, please.
