This was decided in a meeting to review NAB’s awareness and prevention activities across the country.
NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, while presiding over a meeting, said that for 65 years and despite 59 different legislations on ‘enforcement’ as the primary anti-corruption mechanism, “We have failed to achieve fruitful results to curb corruption. We should, therefore, attempt placing awareness and prevention on higher priority so that systemic flaws are identified and removed,” he added.
He directed the Awareness and Prevention Division and the regional NAB offices to take up the proposal with the respective education departments and textbook boards.
The NAB chief directed that experts be hired for the preparation of quality and effective textbook material on anti-corruption.
Chaudhry added that the bureau’s Awareness and Prevention Division will chalk out a calendar of activities for awareness programs to boost efforts against corruption. He said regional bureaus should also make their calendar of events in addition to execution of activities assigned from NAB headquarters.
He emphasised the need for carrying out Awareness activities including TV talk shows, radio programs, lectures, workshops, seminars, writing competitions, declamations contests and poster and painting competitions as regular features rather than the current practice of mostly holding such events around World Anti-Corruption Day.
The NAB chief directed seeking cooperation from UN agencies and NGOs to integrate NAB’s working methodology module in their special and regular training. He also directed forming more character building societies (CBS) in educational institutions across the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 30th, 2014.
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