I’m always in favor of making primary sources available, and you have to give it to the guys who run Theonlinecitizen for volunteering to scan in all 47 pages of the AG’s much-publicized report over accounting ‘irregularities’ in various parts of the Government.

Hi,

Theonlinecitizen would like to invite you to join us in the matter of the recent Auditor General’s report on govt depts and stat boards, financial year 2005/6.

Theonlinecitizen (TOC) will be publishing in full the Auditor General’s report on the full scale of the irregularities uncovered at the ministries and stat boards. (You can view the Public Accounts Committee’s views of the AG report here.)

The scope of the irregularities adds up to $6.2 million over 12 ministries, only $2.4million of which has been recovered. It goes into great detail about individual mistakes made at the respective ministries.

The current point of reference the MSM and most of us are using now is the Public Accounts Committee’s report on the AGO report, essentially a second hand piece of information. After looking at the AGO report, it is revealed to be a woefully inadequate watered down version of what’s going on.

We should be scanning the document (all 47 pages of it) and making it available to the blogosphere together with a writeup highlighting salient sections of it by friday (1st June 2007).

As we will be doing this story from a fresh angle and with information no one on the blogosphere or the MSM has unearthed so far, we would like to request that your help in giving it the fullest publicity on your blogs, forums you frequent, or through MSN when we break it.

[...T]he public should be made aware of the details of the report, which the mainstream media watered down and gave it brief mention.We feel that the public should have the full picture about this matter.

We look forward to your partnership and support in this endeavour.

[...]Ps: We’ve verified that the document is a public one and not subject to the
official secrets act. It’s just not a publicized document.