The first in the series of the Auditor-General's Report for 2014 tabled in Parliament yesterday has been described by Sarawak PKR as “quite terrible” and lacking in details.

“To me the auditor-general failed to discharge his responsibility, public accountability and transparency,” its Batu Lintang assemblyperson See Chee How said, hoping that the auditor would do better the next time around.

See said it is very simple for the auditor-general to say that everything was “satisfactory”.

“This report is quite terrible compared with the reports of the previous years, which actually had more information and details,” he told reporters today.

See ( left ), who is Sarawak PKR vice-chairperson, quoted the special programme on rural Sabah and Sarawak as an example.

“On the special programme for minority bumiputera groups of Sabah and Sarawak, dedicated to their development, it was pointed out that there were management weaknesses and implementation deficiencies. But the findings are fleeting,” he said.

See said it was necessary for the report to detail how the management weaknesses and failure in the implementation was affecting the targeted communities and the state as a whole.

Reveal how much allocated and spent

“There should be a list of the project development/community activities in rural service centres, which are said to have not been implemented, with names of the executing agencies.

“It is also necessary for the audit report to reveal how much of the RM200 million under this programme has been allocated and spent,” he said.

Commenting on Amanah Saham Sarawak Bhd (ASSB),  See said the audit report found it less satisfactory, but did not reveal the list of ASSB investments in equities of which the report had found it suffered the net unrealised loss of RM38.51 million for the period June 2011 to June 2014.

It was also necessary for the AG Report to point out the financial burden on the State Financial Secretary Incorporated and the Sarawak state government to support the net asset value (NAV) of ASSAR’s fund.

Another example where the AG Report had failed to enlighten the public was the management of mobile clinic services by the Ministry of Health, he said.

The public, See said, wanted to know whether the 1Malaysia Mobile Clinic (KB1M) had benefitted the rural communities.

How much of this joint venture project between the Ministry of Health and Yayasan 1Malaysia Development Bhd (Y1MDB) was planned and implemented in Sarawak? How many of the mobile clinic services (PKB) were there in Sarawak?

"Should there not be a list of the projects planned and implemented by state and regions be revealed?" he asked, pointing out that the only information of this KB1M programme in Sarawak was shown by “265 days delay in signing contract for KB1M boat Sg Baram” and questionable “maintenance and repair of KN1M boats at Sg Rejang”.

“Such audit reporting is certainly very unsatisfactory. I certainly hope that the AG department will give more details of its next series of its audit reports to ensure public accountability and transparency of the ministries, departments, statutory bodies and government-owned companies audited,” he said.

Money wasted and misappropriated

See said that a lot of money had been wasted and misappropriated but was not reflected in the report, adding that the money was public money and did not belong to individuals.

“And now we are talking about GST, getting more money from the public and now with its implementation, you actually tax from the very poor people and every sen that you collected and used for all these public purposes should be accounted for.

“You have to very careful and accountable and make sure there is integrity in all these ministries, government departments and statutory bodies,” he said, urging them to follow the example set by

Sarawak government about integrity," he said.

“But the report that we received today is going the opposite direction. I think the report is quite

terrible,” See added.