NIK Head Sekuła to defend boards independence

The head of the Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK), Mirosław Sekuła, will today announce in the Sejm, in an attempt to defend the Boards independence. "Some of the government representatives want to hinder the process of control over the "Opening Report" of Leszek Miller's government and influence its result," said Sekuła. NIK representatives recently found that the report, which blames the catastrophic situation of State-owned companies on the government of Jerzy Buzek is not objective enough, and in several ways misleading. "Every step, as well as in the State Treasury, where the report was created as with the companies themselves, it was impossible to carry out any sort of control," said Sekuła, adding that government representatives tried to influence the result, by avoiding NIK procedures. During his speech, Sekuła also plans to criticize the way the Internal Security Agency (ABW) hindered one of NIK's employees responsible for evaluating the report. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) A.K.