“Kadklai” criticizes “Defense” for hiding secret budgets, revealing the purchase of a “rubber mattress” for 2,885 baht, even though it cost less than 1,500 baht online, while the purchase of a “flag koi fish” that measured the wind direction was almost 20,000 baht, but online the maximum amount was only 4,300 baht. Ask fearfully. People who have tax money know or have budget for HIV testing. This is unacceptable.
20 March 2024 – at 3.05pm at Parliament House during a meeting of the House of Representatives. The budget bill for fiscal year 2024, with a budget of 3.48 trillion baht, will be considered in the second session, sorted by section.
Considering Section 8, the Ministry of Defence, led by Mr Chayaphon Sathondee, MP from Bangkok, from the Progressive Party (KK), has discussed that it is another secret, secret, covert agency whose details are unclear. Many budgets are hidden in many secret documents. Claim security to hide the budget in documents so as not to allow the Commission (Committee) to investigate the stability and sustainability of the armed forces, which has separate procurement of equipment. which only had one line of documents and then it came to the balance sheet. Although at the subcommittee level documents were presented for the committee’s consideration, they were prohibited from being released outside the room and not brought back. backwards. So how can we test this effectively?
Mr Chayaphon also said that the purchase of various military equipment The address is in a secret document which they claim cannot be published. Due to the safety requirement he would like to give an example regarding the purchase of a rubber mattress. The army bought it at the price of 2,885 baht per piece, buying 277 pieces for a total of 1,246,500 million baht, but if you open the online site you will see that the price is less than 1,500 baht. I don’t know where the army bought it. or buying a cone to show the direction of the wind The navy bought them for 18,000 baht a piece. If you do a search online, you will find that the most expensive model costs 4,300 baht. The navy bought them 25 times more expensive. Why do we buy so many cones? It is a koi fish shaped flag that is only used to see the wind direction and does not have any technology. which was hidden in a secret document with many details but was withheld Don’t let us control it.
Mr. Chayaphon also said there is also the issue of secret government funds that are believed to be prohibited from disclosure by security laws. But there is no law that prohibits disclosure. Member of Parliament because we already have a duty to look at the budget. Secret budgets that are requested every year, repeated requests, always the same amount. If it’s a secret budget like this Is it a good idea to include it in your regular budget? There was always the disbursement, but there was no documentation to explain anything. When you want to request additional documents Instead, they replied that they should approach the Office of the Auditor General of Thailand (OAG), but the Auditor General of Thailand does not have the authority to disclose information even from other agencies. It must be the responsibility of that agency. You have to respond to the committee about what the details are. If there is no important reason to explain Then the commission approved this part of the budget. It’s no different than writing a blank check without any supporting information.
“Are these things afraid of someone finding out? Is it just a secret to the public? I don’t want the public to know that I used the money to buy a backhoe. Or they don’t want the public to know that they used the money to buy a pickup truck. In fact, everyone saw it. Foreigners all know this. But it turns out that the Thais who own the country are the only ones who don’t know what their tax money is for. Just know that it’s a question of stability. But not because in the end it’s just a question of sustainable wealth,” Chayaphon said.
While Bangkok Party MP Ekkarat Udomamnuay discussed that the budget of the Royal Thai Army in the expenditure list for psychological operations and mass operations is 9,700,000 baht, which looking at the details, you will see that it can be used in activities to build relationships among military officials, including the Army leadership network. Management level with no performance indicators They used tax money and claimed it was for psychological operations. Recently someone hanged himself in the camp. Please take care of your psychology and take care of people’s relationships inside first. And it is not sure whether the budget used was used to create IO or not. As for the budget for the prevention and resolution of AIDS problems, the amount is 5,937,500 baht, with details including the purchase of more than 200,000 baht of materials and the study of the prevalence of AIDS infection HIV among more than 4 million Thai men who were selected for selection as active duty soldiers baht
“This is unacceptable. This is mandatory. Why must those who enter the camps be forced? Will you demand stability? Thais already have the right to be tested for HIV about 2 times a year, but this must be enforced. Ultimately , if found, will be fired and will not be able to go out and look for work because this information has been revealed. And anyone who accepts this is violating their rights under the law. Therefore, I asked the meeting to cut this budget,” Ekkarat said.
Mr Thakorn Tanthasit, list of parliamentarians The Thai Sang Thai party claimed that the budget of the Ministry of Defense, which would be reduced by 2,485 million baht, or a decrease of 2.8%, was not true. Since it was hidden in the commitment budget list for 2025-2026, for example, the Navy budget has 9 binding projects from 2014 to 2031 with a total budget of 44,618 million baht, or the Air Force said it will reduce the budget of 103 million baht, but it seems that there is a budget. New commitments from 2025-2027, up to 5,709 million baht. In total, the budgets for all 3 armed forces are not actually reduced because they are in the commitment budgets for 2025-2027. which is a new project including 36,231 million baht The budget is 9,641 million baht for the Army, 20,879 million baht for the Navy and 5,709 million baht for the Air Force.
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