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Corruption is cancer in progress: NAB

January 21, 2018

Islamabad : National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal has said that corruption is cancer which is a silent killer. NAB officers to double their efforts to come up to the expectations of the nation as eradication of corruption is our national duty, says a press release.

Justice (r) Javed Iqbal said that NAB is absolutely committed to root out corruption in all its forms and manifestations with iron hands. He said that corruption is major hurdle in the way of progress and prosperity of the country which creates injustice, poverty and depriving a deserving person of its due right on merit.

He said that NAB has perfected its procedures and geared up to make NAB more effective and proactive in order to come up to expectations of the nation. Our overall performance remained excellent as compared to other anti-corruption organisations.

Today NAB has rejuvenated, NAB officers to continue hard work always with absolutely professionally, transparently according to law. He said that the figures of complaints, inquiries and investigations are almost double as compared to the same period of 2016 to 2017.

The chairman said that NAB has introduced a new System of Combine Investigation Team (CIT) in order to benefit from the experience and collective wisdom of senior supervisory officers, a system of CIT comprising of Director, Additional Director, Investigation Officer and a Senior Legal Counsel has been put in place. This will not only lend quality to the work but also ensure that no single individual can influence the proceedings.

The results of CIT are very encouraging. He said that NAB has devised monitoring and evaluation System to track implementation and outputs systematically, and measure the effectiveness of performance which helps in enhancing the operational, monitoring and evaluation capabilities of NAB.

Justice (r) Javed Iqbal said that Monitoring and Evaluation System provide the necessary data to guide strategic planning and helps improving performance and achieving results to improve current and future management of outputs, outcomes and impact.

He said that Monitoring and Evaluation System (MES) is an important management tool to track progress and it facilitates in decision making as well as establishes links between the past, present and future actions. He said that after implementation of MES in NAB, the performance of NAB Officers/officials has improved.