PAC to name errant witnesses

PETALING JAYA: Witnesses who refuse to attend Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearings, especially former high-ranking civil servants, will be publicly named, says its chairman Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin.

She said that many of the PAC proceedings involved witnesses comprising former top government officials, especially control officers and secretaries-general, who were in charge of ministries, departments or government agencies that were mentioned in the Auditor-General’s (A-G) Report.Their presence, she added, is important to ensure that all issues raised in the report are given proper explanation.