ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Qamar Zaman Chaudhry on Friday said the Bureau is absolutely committed to rooting out corruption in all its forms and manifestations with iron hands.
Our overall performance remained excellent as compared to other Anti-Corruption Organizations, he said these remarks while addressing the NAB Officers during his farewell visit to Multan Bureau.
The Chairman said due to number of new initiatives taken during his tenure, PILDAT, Transparency International and World Economic Forum have appreciated Pakistan due to NAB efforts.
Today NAB has rejuvenated and the hard work being put in by officers/officials is commendable, he said and added NAB during the last four years has recovered Rs. 50 billion from corrupt and deposited in national exchequer.
He said the figures of complaints, inquiries and investigations are almost double as compared to same period of 2014 to 2017 and added NAB since its inception, has recovered Rs. 290 billion.
Qamar Zaman said today NAB is the Chairman of SAARC Anti- Corruption Forum and it is the only Organization in the world to which China has signed MoU to streamline cooperation in field of anti-corruption and oversee projects to be undertaken under CEPC.
He said NAB has established its first Forensic Science Lab (FSL) in Islamabad which has facilities of Digital Forensics, Questioned Documents and Fingerprint Analysis.
The Chairman said NAB has rationalized its workload and timelines have been prescribed for efficient, effective and expeditious disposal of cases putting a maximum limit of 10 months - from complaint verification-to-inquiry-to-investigation and finally to a reference in the Accountability Court.
NAB has also introduced a new System of Combine Investigation Team (CIT) in order to benefit from the experience and collective wisdom of senior supervisory officers, a system of CIT comprising of Director, Additional Director, Investigation Officer and a Senior Legal Counsel has been put in place. This will not only lend quality to the work but also ensure that no single individual can influence the proceedings. The results of CIT are very encouraging.
The Chairman said NAB Multan is one of the important Regional Bureaus which plays prominent role in contributing towards overall performance.
He appreciated the performance of NAB Multan and directed all ranks of officers to work more vigilantly, diligently and honestly in order to curb corruption and corrupt practices from country.
He said performance of all wings of NAB Multan under supervision of Atiq-ur-Rehman, Director General Multan is appreciated and hoped that NAB Multan would continue its performance in future.
Earlier, Director General, Multan, in his welcome address said the idea of spreading operational activities vigorously in far-flung areas of county has left indelible impact in terms of out-reach, service delivery and responsiveness in combating corruption in southern Punjab.
NAB Multan within short span of two years has been successful in bringing about social and cultural change to palpable extent in society.
He said processing of over 5200 complaints is witness to our success story of public confidence and trust reposed on NAB Multan.
Highlighting performance, the DG said NAB Multan conducted 356 Complaint Verification, 121 Inquiries, 58 Investigations and recovered Rs. 1392 million in cash and 81.15 million indirect recoveries besides retrieval of hundreds of plots and state land and returned to rightful owners.
At same time, we have conducted 13 Seminars, 4 workshops at district level, established 11 Character Building Societies (CBS) in Universities/Colleges and Schools to aware youth about ill effects of corruption at an early age.
He said Chairman NAB while heading National Accountability Bureau under given circumstances has performed exceptional well. "You have not only steered ship out of tumultuous storms but also set very high standards of leadership," he said, adding that innovations and improvements under your tenure in terms of introducing new initiatives of Combined Investigation Team (CIT), Monitoring and Evaluation System (MES), Internal Accountability Mechanism (IAM), Timelines, quantitative and qualitative posed annual and midterm inspections, merit based recruitments, holding of SAARC conference etc. will be remembered in golden words.
The DG said Chairman NAB has always been remained a guiding force for us in discharge of duties without any fear and favour.
He said that strong leadership like yours led the organization in right direction with proactive Anti-Corruption Strategy which was implemented in letter and spirit, due to which NAB Multan's performance remained excellent.
Upon arrival, Chairman NAB reviewed guard of honor.
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