Enemalta refusing to accept Auditor General’s report
If Ms Nirvana Azzopardi, Enemalta communications coordinator, would have followed both the printed and electronic media, she would have understood that perhaps except for the offices in the fourth floor at the Enemalta headquarters in Marsa, and the offices of the ex-Minister responsible for Enemalta, nobody believed her explanation. She also fell short of quoting the Auditor General’s comments on the bouts of dementia of Mr Joe Mizzi and some of Enemalta officials requested to stand witness under oath.
Let me inform Ms Azzopardi that although I finished my active work with Enemalta over six years ago, I am still being warranted to stand witness on cases going back to 1989; once I told the judge I was no longer an Enemalta employee and therefore I should not be requested to stand witness, and he replied: “do you wish to spend some days in cells below?” But the Auditor General cannot do that.
I have noticed that Enemalta has changed its strategy on comments made by auditors. In my time, the management letters of the external auditors were treated like dogmas of faith. You would just give your version, but what the auditor writes or states is never challenged.
I remember a case of much lesser value, where a senior staff member, my subordinate, had fallen behind in one of his tasks. I was ordered to bring the task in line myself, and to add insult to injury, when the board came to rate my performance bonus for that year, it was lowered heavily from the previous year, while the official who had defaulted was given a higher rating than mine, when actually it was him who defaulted.
In this case Enemalta is doing the opposite, taking to task the Auditor General and exalting those officers who suffered bouts of dementia. I do not need to reply to the direct comments regarding the Auditor’s riposte, for they have already been widely replied in Parliament and in the media, but Enemalta keeps standing by its position, rather then excusing itself with the general public that pays the wages and salaries of its employees through high tariffs of electricity.
I was not the one who started the jokes on Boiler No 7, after the fourth of the five shutdowns that happened since 16 June, 2009. My remark on Boiler No 7 was that I have seen this boiler tripping tens of times during my time at Enemalta, but the fault was never allowed to cascade on other generating plants at Marsa and/or Delimara powerstation. This was not the case during the five shutdowns mentioned above.
Has Enemalta’s performance taken turn for the worse? These total shutdowns show that the situation has gone out of hand at Enemalta. Why? The answers must come from its end.
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