Corruption is greater than I estimated when I was out of power, President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades stated today, a day after the arrest of the Paphos mayor and other public officials for corruption.
Receiving the General Auditor’s Annual Report for 2013, Mr. Anastasiades urged Odysseas Michaelides not to hesitate to be uncompromising when good administration is violated by any individual, including the President of the Republic, and asked him to continue his work with even greater vigor.
Presenting the annual report for 2013, Mr. Michaelides thanked the President of the Republic for his support to the service and assured that "the effort to improve our society, which faces big problems with corruption, will continue”.
The President of the Republic, upon receiving the report, said: "I feel the need to thank and congratulate you. You know well that from the day of your appointment my aim was to have zero tolerance for any interweaving or any abuse of power or any act contrary to morality”.
Certainly, your terms of reference do not cover only the narrow concept of the civil service, but also the wider public sector.
I can assure you that I will not tolerate - I said it and I mean it, and I am glad that you contribute to this effort - any violation of a code concerning the good administration, and particularly, the proper management of public money.
There are a number of investigated cases that nobody in the past, despite what was stated, could either investigate or even more, as at present, to be prosecuted and I must praise the Attorney General and the assistant Attorney General with whom I know you have excellent cooperation. So I would like to ask you to continue with the same vigor.
Do not hesitate - whomever concerns –I, not excluded, if any violation of good governance, sound management is observed to be uncompromising. And I think that at the end zero tolerance will bring what citizens require: “Clearance of the stable of Augeas”.
Again thank you, I congratulate you for your work and I urge you to continue with the same zeal and even more rigor, the President concluded.
Receiving the General Auditor’s Annual Report for 2013, Mr. Anastasiades urged Odysseas Michaelides not to hesitate to be uncompromising when good administration is violated by any individual, including the President of the Republic, and asked him to continue his work with even greater vigor.
Presenting the annual report for 2013, Mr. Michaelides thanked the President of the Republic for his support to the service and assured that "the effort to improve our society, which faces big problems with corruption, will continue”.
The President of the Republic, upon receiving the report, said: "I feel the need to thank and congratulate you. You know well that from the day of your appointment my aim was to have zero tolerance for any interweaving or any abuse of power or any act contrary to morality”.
Certainly, your terms of reference do not cover only the narrow concept of the civil service, but also the wider public sector.
I can assure you that I will not tolerate - I said it and I mean it, and I am glad that you contribute to this effort - any violation of a code concerning the good administration, and particularly, the proper management of public money.
There are a number of investigated cases that nobody in the past, despite what was stated, could either investigate or even more, as at present, to be prosecuted and I must praise the Attorney General and the assistant Attorney General with whom I know you have excellent cooperation. So I would like to ask you to continue with the same vigor.
Do not hesitate - whomever concerns –I, not excluded, if any violation of good governance, sound management is observed to be uncompromising. And I think that at the end zero tolerance will bring what citizens require: “Clearance of the stable of Augeas”.
Again thank you, I congratulate you for your work and I urge you to continue with the same zeal and even more rigor, the President concluded.
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