EDITORIAL
Major farce at audit office
- Published: 23/09/2010 at 02:59 AM
- Newspaper section: News
When our top legal minds sat down to write all the clauses in the current constitution regarding the state's audit mechanisms, they surely must not have foreseen the kind of messy situation now being experienced in the Office of the Auditor-General. Otherwise they might have come up with a different set of laws or at least devised some mechanism to deal with such a problem.
It is not an overstatement to say that our state audit _ which is supposed to be carried out by the state audit commission and the auditor-general _ is virtually rudderless although it is still functioning, thanks to the dedicated staff and executives who still have a sense of responsibility and sanity despite all the absurdities taking place around them.
The state audit commission has been non-existent for about four years now, after the last commission was axed by the coup-makers who toppled the Thaksin administration in September 2006. However, the military regime extended the tenure of then auditor-general Jaruvan Maintaka and also named her chairman of the state audit commission, pending the appointment of a new panel.
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