While telling reports against financial improprieties by the Sarawak State government appear on an almost daily basis. And while perhaps half of that State’s annual revenue has to go towards these hidden debts, about which no information is published by the GPS State government how are the public to know what is and has been for decades going on with the State’s finances?

It seems useless to ask questions in the State Assembly, which rarely meets and then only for very short sessions, since any such are not answered and those asking them may well be summarily expelled for having dared to do so. So is there a solution to this problem?

The answer seems to lie with the Audit Departments both in Sarawak and the Federal Auditor General’s overall authority. What have the public officials in both those posts to say about how Sarawak’s finances are being managed. or rather mis-managed? The voters within Sarawak and throughout the Federation have the right to know if public funds are being properly and legally managed; or not? Public statements from both departments could do something to clear up public uncertainty. Will we see them?