NAB’s Internal Accountability reviewed

Islamabad
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry chaired a meeting to review the Internal Accountability Mechanism (IAM) within NAB, here on Tuesday, says a press release.
The chairman emphasised the need to augment and strengthen the process of Internal Accountability Mechanism with a view to weed out such elements that for reasons of inefficiency, misconduct, malpractice and violation of laid down SOPs/Rules and bring a bad name to the organisation.
The senior member Chairman Inspection and Monitoring Team (CI&MT) gave a presentation after incorporating the suggestions/proposals received from all concerned on the proposed Internal Accountability Mechanism within NAB.
In his presentation the senior member (CI&MT) informed an effective Internal Accountability Mechanism has been devised in order to encourage the culture of adherence to Rules and SOPs and creating deterrence against indulging in violations.
He further informed that under Internal Accountability Mechanism the matters related to delinquency of NAB’s officers/officials shall be firstly dealt by NAB’s Regional Bureaus in accordance with law.
Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said that NAB is Pakistan’s apex Anti-Corruption Organisation with the mandate to eliminate corruption from the country. NAB’s priority is that we should be first Accountable to ourselves under Internal Accountability Mechanism under which unwarranted actions will not go unnoticed, as the name of the NAB is more important than individuals.
The chairman approved the Internal Accountability Mechanism (IAM) and directed Senior Member Chairman Inspection and Monitoring Team (CI&MT) to issue the policy guidelines to all Regional Bureaus of NAB for implementation and application.