KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Education splurging RM6.6 million on spell check software despite it being available for free in most word processors is just some of the unbelievable incidents of wastage the government has committed, according to the second series of the Auditor-General’s (A-G) 2014 report.
The report said 1,417 copies of the spell check software was purchased for 20 schools in Putrajaya including an additional 270 copies worth RM75,600 from a company known as Brilliance Information Sdn Bhd. The company was awarded a contract worth RM28.28 million to furnish computing technology to schools in the Federal Territories from 2012 to 2014.
Meanwhile the A-G’s reports also showed that the Ministry of Health lost RM82.98 million in medical fees from 2012 and 2014.
It was learnt that over than half of this loss was attributed to foreign patients not paying up. Hospital Bintulu meanwhile was found to have suffered from a 915.3 per cent increase in revenue arrears in 2014 compared to the previous year, with RM58,313 in unrecovered late fees.
The A-G’s report also showed that the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry (MOA) had signed a RM268.222 million contract with a private firm in 2012 despite the secretary-general of the MOA only having the authority to sign contracts worth up to RM100 million.
The contract involved Sunlight Inno Seafood Sdn Bhd for its investment in a National Key Economic Area (NKEA) project called Replicating Integrated Zone for Aquaculture Model (Izaq).
The MOA has since owned up to the error in judgement and stated it was not done deliberately.
Meanwhile the Auditor-General’s report showed that the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) lost five vessels worth RM10.3 million that went up in flames at a Kuantan jetty in 2013.
The fire was alleged to have started in a fishing boat and spread quickly to all the MMEA vessels moored at the rented jetty. The report also said MMEA owned only seven of the 42 jetties that its used for its 230 vessels.
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