Lawmakers ‘too busy’ to read audit reports

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The real concerns of parliamentarians about spending can easily be gauged from the fact that around 98 percent of the lawmakers did not bother taking audit reports on the accounts of various federal ministries and public sector enterprises for the financial year 2009-10 with them since their tabling in the House on July 22.
These 98 percent MNAs who have no time to learn about the embezzlements and financial irregularities, otherwise miss no opportunity to express anger over the misuse of public money, probably for public consumption.
When the National Assembly session was summoned last month on the requisition of the opposition, the finance minister laid audit reports 2010-11 on the accounts of financial year 2009-10 in the House on the second and last days of the session.
The NA session was again summoned on August 1 but by Thursday (August 4), only two to three percent of lawmakers from the Lower House showed interest in learning about the utilisation of the national exchequer in the PPP government’s second financial year, while the bundles of 98 percent lawmakers were present below their desks.
PML-N lawmakers, who miss no opportunity to hit the government hard for its alleged corruption and misappropriation of public money, exhibited no interest in going through the audit reports.
On the one hand, the PML-N is raising concerns over the appointment of auditor general of Pakistan and its leaders claim that the government is planning to appoint its favourite bureaucrat to the key watchdog post to make the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ineffective, but on the other, party lawmakers have no interest in knowing how public money was utilised or looted in the previous years.
An audit official said the lawmaker’s attitude encouraged public servants to eat away tax payers’ money.
“How can parliamentarian take up corruption cases in the House without having solid information about them,” he added.

2 COMMENTS

  1. Three Rs ( 3Rs)-Reading, (W)riting and (A)rithmetic- not everybody’s business.

  2. Lawmakers are law breakers ,MQM,ANP,PPPZ..Look at mutinous speeches of Altaf Hussein ,unconstitutionally, illegally allowed by MR Zardari ,the despotic virtual king under the watch of highest judiciary going stronger,sincf Altaf Hussein is NRO charged alleged criminal, absconder,a British national),he cannot make live daily speeches from London and incite anarchy,mutiny in army,civiliamn.publicly brazely.But he does sinxce MR Zardari seem to have some big task for him to do.Break Punjab and rest of Pakistan-the way disintegrative process goes in my great country. is 1000 percent responsible for target killings of thousands and bathakhori of trillions.All these parties MQM,PPPZ,ANP,MLQ,MLN must be exterminated and their leaders convicted for murdering their nation,poor and economy for ruining Pakistan.UK

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