The AGO's Audit of Ministries and Statutory Boards
The audit observations in this year's report relate to six ministries, including the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Defence, and six statutory boards such as the Housing and Development Board (HDB) and Nanyang Polytechnic.
The AGO, as the independent organ of state, carries out their audits without fear or favour, benchmarking their work to recognised international and professional auditing standards, and with the highest standard of fairness and objectivity.
THIS is how the integrity of our public institutions has been maintained and upheld.
All lapses must be addressed, whether significant or not. If criminality is involved, then the weight of the law will be brought to bear. This is how the system is kept clean.
In a speech on ethical leadership and tackling corruption in 2005, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said:
"IT IS A CONSTANT FIGHT TO KEEP THE HOUSE CLEAN. AS LONG AS THE CORE LEADERSHIP IS CLEAN, any backsliding can be brought under control and the house cleaned up."
But what if the failures are not just the sum of individual lapses, but pervasive and systemic, cutting across every areas like that seen in AHTC, where the CORE LEADERSHIP ITSELF fails in the enforcement of integrity and ethical values?
Can that house be cleaned up when the core leadership neither uphold nor enforce integrity and ethical values?
The answer is clear, isn't it?
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Reports on the lapses in the AGO Audit of ministries and stat boards can be read here:
http://bit.ly/2anitTa
http://bit.ly/2aHoj0u
http://bit.ly/2aecfGa
http://bit.ly/2aqDJc6
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