Residents have launched a petition for a Royal Commission into allegations of “Government fiscal impropriety and corruption”.The petition was created in response to an article in The Royal Gazette where the Auditor General claimed nobody had the fortitude to punish Government officials alleged to have wasted tax dollars.The petition, which can be viewed at www.PetitionOnline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?BdianRCI&1, reads:“Bermuda's Auditor General Heather Matthews believes nobody has the fortitude to punish Government officials alleged to have allowed taxpayers’ money to go to waste in the Ewart Brown administration. Ms Matthews said: “The Government’s Financial Instructions are and always have been clear about consequences for non-compliance. Unfortunately, no one appears to have the fortitude to mete out the penalties/surcharge as a result of non-compliance.“In July this year, the Public Accounts Committee said there was specific intent at the highest level of Dr Brown’s Ministry that the TCD contract be given to Bermuda Emissions Control, a company partly owned by Dr Brown’s close friend Dennis Correia, regardless of Financial Instruction rules. “It continues: “In his report into FBT last year, then-Auditor General Larry Dennis said Mr Curtis was awarded his first payment of $191,000 despite failing to meet the criteria for the disbursement of funds stipulated in his contract.“We, as Bermudians and Residents of Bermuda, demand greater scrutiny, transparency and accountability from our Government leaders and senior Civil Servants with regard to Bermuda's public purse being managed with the utmost prudence and integrity. We respectfully request a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the numerous and various allegations and implications of Government fiscal impropriety and corruption.”