“Our main focus is on awareness and prevention to control corruption with the help of civil society,” Chaudhry said, according to the statement.
He said that corruption is the greatest obstacle to economic and social development. Desperately needed funds are gobbled up by corrupt individuals and the people get robbed of health, education and other essential services, the corruption watchdog boss said.
Since its inception, NAB has been enforcement oriented. However, over a period of time it was realised to adopt a holistic approach of awareness, prevention and enforcement. The National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) aims at engaging all the integrity pillars of the society to fight corruption.
The integrity pillars, according to the NAB statement, comprise of legislature, civil society, judiciary, media, executive, public accountability bodies, public sector and the anti-corruption agencies.
Parents today lay more emphasis on grades and have forgotten the importance of character building. In this regard, NAB took the initiative in 2012 and started forming character building societies at school, college and university level with active support of provincial government and civil society.
Preventing acts of corruption from happening is far superior action than punishment.
Since March 2012 till June, 2014, NAB, under the pre-procurement regime, conducted scrutiny of 662 public sector projects worth Rs1,804 billion. The projects were either corrected in ensuring implementation of PPRA Rules or procurement processes were re-initiated for transparency and fair play.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 27th, 2014.
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