During the recent official launching of Integrity Day and launch of Organisation Anti-Corruption Plan workshop (OACP) by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Sarawak (MYSS), I have called on heads of Sarawak State's departments and divisions including those under the ministry to be firm and and not tolerate any employee who are involved in corruption while carrying out their duties.
I have also told them that every serious act of corruption involving the ministry’s employees regardless of rank, position and status must be reported to the top management and relevant authorities.
I believe that it was equally important to inculcate the integrity culture among the employees in order to strengthen integrity in every organisation because that is the basis in delivering quality services to the community and the parties that were dealing with the ministry.
This is because whether we realise or not, honesty, trust and integrity are actually the intrinsic values that are the backbone and peg of economic progress. In business for example, an honest and trustworthy trader will gain the trust of the customers who bought the goods sold and indeed the customers will continue to buy from the trader that has integrity.
Every civil servant too must perform their duties in honesty, trust and high integrity at all times and not easily fall into the problem of breach of trust by taking any form of bribes from outsiders.
We must believe that it is very important for Sarawak to have a group of civil servants who have high appreciation and practice of integrity values to ensure the development goals of the state and nation could be achieved efficiently and effectively.
I have cautioned that an organisation would not be perfect in its administration without focusing on good governance, transparency and at the same time produce efficient work.
It is also our shared responsibility to strengthen and cultivate the practice of integrity in all aspects of life to ensure that Sarawak and Malaysia as a whole will always be supported by members of civil society who have high self-integrity.
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