NAB measures: Anti-corruption awareness session targets youth, women

NAB Director General Aliya Rashid saysthat corruption was the biggest challenge to the country’s development

NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU: Young people in universities can play an important role in curbing corruption, speakers at an awareness session agreed on Wednesday.

They were speaking at the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) on the “Role of women in prevention of corruption”, according to a press release.

National Accountability Bureau Director General (Awareness and Prevention) Aliya Rashid said that corruption was the biggest challenge to the country’s development and must be dealt with an iron hand.

She said that the youth could play a vital role in fighting corruption.

Rashid said that corruption included bribery, misuse of authority, nepotism, embezzlement, and extortion.

“Women power against corruption can change the destiny of our country,” she said. Rashid said that since mothers had a major role in bringing up children and shaping their attitudes, the awareness campaign was targeting women in universities and colleges – the future mothers.

Rashid’s strategy for combating corruption involves women, youth, and children by encouraging them not to create unintentional financial pressures on the family breadwinners with demands of luxury items.

She said that every Pakistani realised that corruption was the mother of all ills; and it had given birth to nepotism and favoritism, while negating transparency and accountability.

Dr Samina Malik, director of girls’ campus, said that the session had made everyone think about how they could contribute towards ending corruption. Dr Nabi Bux Jummani, dean of faculty of social sciences, called for joint efforts to uproot corruption.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 19^th, 2016.