It has been revealed that more that 50 percent of public officials failed to meet the deadline this year to provide their statutory declarations.
According to the Integrity Commission's first annual report, tabled in the Senate last Friday, as at March 31, 29,000 declarations were due from public officials.
However, the Commission received 13,700 declarations.
That was 47 per cent of the total due.
The figure did not include statistics for Parliamentarians.
A public official as defined by the Integrity Commission Act means any person holding an executive, administrative or a judicial office or a parliamentarian; an individual employed to a public body as well as any member of the police and military.
They are required to make statutory declarations of their assets, liabilities and income.
Under the law, provisions are made for the investigation of government employees whose declared assets are not in keeping with their total emoluments.
Meanwhile, more than a year after the formation of the single anti-corruption agency its Commissioners are yet to receive any emoluments.
In the report, the Commissioners expressed surprise that to date there has been no determination regarding their compensation.
They said the process of getting a recommended compensation structure is still being pursued.
The Integrity Commission Act, which came into operation on February 22, 2018, merged the roles, activities and responsibilities of The Office of the Contractor General; The Commission for the Prevention of Corruption; and The Integrity Commission into one agency.
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