KUALA TERENGGANU: A total of 11,100 civil servants in Terengganu have signed the Corruption-Free pledge with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) so far.
State MACC director Mohd Zaki Hassan said this makes Terengganu the state with the highest number of signatories involving civil servants in the country.
“We are happy to announce that 46 government agencies involving 11,100 staff have taken the pledge so far,” he told reporters after witnessing the corruption-free pledge signing ceremony involving Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) staff at its campus here, today.
He added that the Kemaman City Council was the first government entity in the state to sign the pledge in February this year.
UniSZA is the second public higher learning institution in the state that took the pledge after Universiti Institut Teknologi Mara, which is located in Dungun.
Zaki said another 59 government agencies are waiting their turn to take the corruption-free pledge in the state.
“We hope to complete this exercise by the end of the year,” he said, adding none of the 46 government agencies that took the pledge were involved in corruption.
Present were State MACC deputy director Zainal Ayop, UniSZA vice-chancellor Dr Ahmad Zubaidi A. Latiff and state MACC senior officers.