NAB officers recruited transparently

Chaudhry says training of officers along modern lines is their top priority


News Desk May 20, 2017
Chaudhry says training of officers along modern lines is their top priority. PHOTO: INP/FILE

The recently inducted officers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) were recruited transparently and on merit.

This was stated by NAB chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry at the bureau’s Headquarters while reviewing the latest progress on the training of newly selected Investigation Officers which are currently receiving training at the Police Training College Sihala, a statement issued by the bureau on Friday.

He said that to maintain transparency, merit and fair play, the selection of investigation officers was outsourced to the National Testing Service (NTS) which conducted academic as well as psychological tests.

Of the 94,165 applications received in response to an advertisement, Chaudhry said that 80,377 candidates were shortlisted for 97 posts.

“It was a gigantic task to select the best out of the huge lot,” Chaudhry said, adding that not a single ‘sifarish’ was entertained during the selection process.

NAB as an organisation had a motto of “say no to corruption”. We cannot afford the slightest indication of any subjectivity, the NAB chief said.

He added that only those candidates were selected who would be able to do Justice to the job which they are assigned. “This has been the hallmark of our work and it shall continue.”

Chaudhry said that NAB was committed to eradicating corruption in all its forms and manifestations.

Corruption has a negative impact on development and prosperity of the country, he said, adding that NAB officials follow a strict code of ethics and conduct and a zero-tolerance policy against corruption is strictly enforced.

NAB has adopted the enforcement based approach in the fight against corruption. NAB accords high priority to cases of cheating public at large which is a serious offence under NAO. Many financial scams involving plundering hard-earned income and savings of people at large have been pursued by NAB, with the goal to recover the looted money and return it to the rightful owners.

In this regard, the NAB chief said, they had probed the Double Shah Scam, Cooperative Societies Scam, Fake Housing Authorities Scam and Modarabas where NAB recovered looted money and returned it with the approval of the respective accountability courts.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2017.

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