New Army graft complaint centres ‘not a duplication’
The Army’s graft complaint centres do not overlap with existing anti-graft bodies, they merely expand channels to reach the public, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) spokesperson Colonel Winthai Suvaree said in defending the initiative on Wednesday.
The military-based complaint centres were set up at Army bases nationwide on the orders of Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha last Thursday. Hotline phone numbers and postal addresses were also made available to receive public complaints.
Winthai said that these new channels would act only as receiving portals. Matters may be screened for accountability purposes before being forward to anti-graft agencies including the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) and its underling, the National Anti-Corruption Administrative Centre.
Secretary-generals of these two agencies would take part in screening information received from people so as to lubricate the anti-graft system from the very start, the spokesperson said.
The Army’s complaint centres would play mostly supporting roles to those agencies, he added.