Tighter controls needed on spending by public sector agencies

WHEN Singapore's chief auditor released his annual report of the country's public sector agencies last week, there was a sense of deja vu. Within the report's 72 pages were the same sorts of irregularities and lapses that the Auditor-General's Office (AGO) had uncovered in the last few years.

There were the usual blunders that Auditor-General Willie Tan a…