PETALING JAYA: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will call up five ministries which have been singled out in the first series of 2013 Auditors General for "excessive expenditure."
The ministries are the Agriculture and Agro-based Industry, Education, Home, Health and Works.
PAC chairman Datuk Nur Jaslan Mohamed told a press conference that these ministries were on the "priority list" with two others - Defence and Human Resources - to be called later as the amount involved were "not so high."
He said PAC would call up the ministries as soon as "two or three cases" from the previous report had been settled.
On cases of corruption, misuse of power and negligence mentioned in the report, Nur Jaslan said only 29 per cent of the report involved such cases.
"There were 121 such cases brought up in the report, out of which 92 cases had been resolved. The rest are still under investigation," he said.
He explained that action had been taken against those guilty of misconduct, including an officer who was sacked.
"This shows that the government is serious about these issues," he said.
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