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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Retired, 2 in Education Ministry’s spell checker fiasco escape action

Chief Secretary Tan Sri Ali Hamsa says two Education Ministry officers involved in a controversial purchase of a spell checker will escape punishment as they are now retired. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, June 23, 2015.Chief Secretary Tan Sri Ali Hamsa says two Education Ministry officers involved in a controversial purchase of a spell checker will escape punishment as they are now retired. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, June 23, 2015.
Two of the five Education Ministry officers involved in the controversial purchase of spell checker software at a cost of RM280 per unit for Putrajaya schools will not face any action as they have retired, Chief Secretary Tan Sri Ali Hamsa said today.

Speaking at a town hall session on the latest Auditor-General Report released last week, Ali said retired civil servants cannot be subject to retrospective action if their actions did not involve criminal elements.
"It does not involve criminal elements, so we can't take action once they retire. So technically they will escape action."

In the audit, the ministry was reprimanded for unnecessarily spending RM75,600 as 270 units of the spell checker software was surplus to requirements.
Education Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Dr Madinah Mohamad said that the procurement was based on the package price given by the company.
The ministry had bought 1,147 units of the software along with computers to be used for 20 schools in Putrajaya.
Ali and Madinah responded following queries by the media as to why the ministry had to spend money acquiring spell-checking software when these were generally available for free.

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