Prayut reiterates commitment to fight corruption
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday reiterated his commitment that he would fight corruption in Thailand and prevent politicians from taking advantage of the bureaucratic system.
He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the seminar on Construction Sector Transparency Initiative or CoST held under the cooperation of the State Enterprise Policy Office, the Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand and the British Embassy in Thailand.
Prayut emphasised that since the beginning of his administration, all the anti-corruption units namely the Anti-Money Laudering Office, the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission and the Office of Auditor General of Thailand, have been working in cooperation with five committees the government has set up, international organisations and CoST in pushing for concrete results of the anti-corruption policy.
Despite that manifestation by the government, Prayut said that he had not yet been satisfied with the progress. He vowed to strengthen it and raise public confidence in national transparency by using the Integrity Pacts in big projects. The development of public access to projects’ information and plans of the government is needed.
Mark Kent, the British Ambassador to Thailand, said that corruption usually occurs in the bureaucratic system with high complexity.
However, online or directly accessible information on the government’s projects can raise public confidence. Meanwhile, journalists are responsible for exposing information to the public on a wider scale.
