DGs conference told: NAB strategy yielded 76pc conviction rate

Chairperson Qamar Zaman says bureau has zero tolerance for corruption


News Desk September 27, 2017
NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhary. PHOTO: INP

ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairperson Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said that NAB has a zero tolerance policy against corruption.

He went on to laud NAB’s Anti-Corruption Strategy, which resulted in the recovery of Rs290 billion and a conviction ratio of 76 per cent.

Chaudhry said this addressing the 22nd conference of the NAB directors general (DG) at the NAB Headquarters. The deputy chairperson, prosecutor general accountability (PGA) and all NAB DGs participated in the moot.

Various sectors of NAB gave detailed presentations about their departments and the work undertaken in the past few years. Operations DG gave a presentation about NAB’s operational methodology informing the attendees that in 2014 NAB received 18,818 complaints, followed by 29,996 in 2015 and 33,245 complaints in 2016. He went on to state that this increase in complaints can only mean that people are trusting NAB more.

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Awareness and prevention DG gave a detailed presentation after which Chaudhry informed the audience that NAB has now decided to involve the youth in corruption prevention by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Higher Education Commission (HEC).

Over 45,000 Character Building Societies have been established by NAB in universities and colleges to create awareness against corruption amongst the youth.  In line with the same mandate, the ‘Say no to corruption’ campaign was launched all around the country and yielded such great results that NAB ran the campaign again in 2017.

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MES advisor spoke about NAB’s effective monitoring and evaluation system, which maintains comprehensive data at each stage, starting from complaint entry to complaint verification, inquiry, investigation, the prosecution stage and the preservation of records of regional board meetings and executive board meetings.

Chaudhry appreciated the efforts of all NAB officers and said that all officials have to double their effort to come up to the expectations that people attach to NAB. He said that he hopes that through joint efforts from NAB, stakeholders and civil society, “we will be able to nip corruption in the bud”.

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