We Don’t Need More Experts but Better Implementation

We can pay good money for all the consultants but if we do not have proper action plans and good control measures, all the money we pay foreign consultants is just money down the drain.

All Malaysians accept that poverty eradication is a noble mission though some believe that poverty can never be totally eliminated.

It would be more useful for the government to implement is more openness so that the people can provide good feedback when things are not going well.
Perhaps it is time to revisit the Official Secrets Act to remove some of the clauses so that not everything becomes an official secret with its draconian penalties.

Under the present law, anything can be deemed an official secret so long as a government official deems it so.
This law means that a civil servant probably cannot reveal what was ordered for coffee breaks during a committee meeting as all government business is deemed secret.

We should amend the law so that only certain documents affecting national security have to be stamped by at least 2 persons maybe at the director’s level.
Just taking the problems on APs, if the MPs had been informed of all the goings-on at MITI, I am sure some alarm bells would have gone off much earlier.

The other requirement is that all documents stamped as "Secret" should have an expiry date like 10 years so that any wrongful deeds can also be brought to light.




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