Wednesday, 25 November 2009 03:53 DAP-NEWS
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
PM Hun Sen on Tuesday once more again showed his strong commitment to hand the long-awaited anti-corruption law to the National Assembly for debate.
The anti-corruption law has been eagerly anticipated by an increasingly frustrated public and development partners for over a decade since the first mandate of the legislature.
The Cabinet will raise the anti-corruption law for debate in December 11, 2009 and then it will be handed to the NA to pass, he told hundreds of NGO officials at the 30th anniversary of NGO engagement in Cambodia the National Institute of Education.
PM Hun Sen has said on several occasions in the past few years that even though Cambodia lacks a specific law to combat corruption other laws to punish corruption cases. Cambodia already passed the new penal code paving the way to pass the anti-corruption law.
Yesterday at the ceremony, Pm Hun Sen said that Ngos should not worry about the upcoming law of NGO management as the law will provide transparency for capital sources of NGOs, he said. The anti-corruption law will provide the transparency for the government as demanded by NGOs and the general public. “This is not a measure of retaliation from the Government,” he stressed. “The Government does not retaliate with NGOs through law of NGO Manag- ement … We all need transparency.”
The Cambodian Government has rejected previous estimates of the cost of corruption to Cambodia. Corruption is a sensitive and was controversial issue for Cambodia but seems to be receiving more attention. Om Yen Teing, head of the Government’s Anti-Corruption Unit, has said he will resign if the anti-corruption law is not passed after the penal code.
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