By Siti Rohaizah Zainal
SHAH ALAM, Oct 1 — The Menteri Besar (Incorporated)’s (MBI) Integrity and Governance Department was established to monitor processes, procurements, and actions, so as to ensure they follow proper governance and regulations.
Selangor Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said the initiative to establish the department at MBI was to ensure civil servants remain with integrity when carrying out their duties.
“This department includes internal audit and several related departments, to monitor things as a whole. This is how we begin educating, and we apply it in such a way so that it is not easy to engage in corruption as there is always someone monitoring things independently.
“It will also enculturalise anti-corruption, together with monthly programmes, an anti-corruption month, ceramahs, tazkirah, and encourage certain declarations,” he said during the live broadcast of the discussion “Is Selangor A Hub of Corruption?” yesterday night.
Meanwhile Amirudin explained that during the State Executive Council sitting, almost all of MBI’s board of directors and subsidiary companies declare on paper if they or their families have any personal interests.
“We have been educating and inculcating since 2008, by ensuring Excos, state assemblymen, and councillors are not given the position or opportunity in which they risk getting involved.
“The effects of corruption are felt not only in terms of damages and loss of money, but also in death and the quality of life,” he said.