BIEK chief calls for corruption probe against former management

Karachi
In response to an employees’ protest against his authoritarian managerial style, an irate Akhtar Ghauri, chairman of the Board of Intermediate Education (BIEK), on Tuesday put forward serious corruption allegations against the former board management, accusing it of “selling off” the top three positions and receiving Rs240 million per year from the 'education mafia', as he called for the Sindh Anti-Corruption Establishment to start probing the board's irregularities.
Ghauri made the allegation while talking to the media at his office after a handful of BIEK employees staged a protest demonstration against him and accused him of harassing them by issuing explanation letters and warnings.
A few employees of the BIEK had protested outside the board office on Tuesday morning, causing all administrative affairs to come to a halt for a brief period of time.
They alleged that Ghauri was creating hurdles in the way of discharging their duties by putting undue pressure on them and issuing explanation letters and show-cause notices without any valid reason. They chanted slogans against him and demanded his removal from the post.
However, the protesters dispersed after the arrival of BIEK chairman at his office.
Talking to the media, Ghauri also claimed that all important files pertaining to recruitment, postings and transfers, besides financial and administrative affairs had also been stolen from the BIEK office. Moreover, he said, the records of former BIEK chairman Anwar Ahmed Zai and the present Controller of Examinations had also been stolen by breaking locks of offices.
“I urge the ACE to come to BIEK and start investigating the financial and administrative embezzlements like they are doing in the cases of Civil Hospital Karachi and the Board of Secondary Education Karachi,” Ghauri said. “It was the members of education mafia who were behind the protests.”
He said the level of corruption inside the BIEK could be gauged from the fact that students who had been awarded more than 80 percent marks by the board could not even qualify in the pre-entrance tests of various professional educational institutions. “Everyone in the country known that BIEK results were not credible,” he said. “When I took charge as the BIEK chairman and tried to stop corruption with directives from Sindh governor and chief minister, this mafia incited their stooges against me but their protest would not deter my resolve. The mafia which used to sell positions had staged the protest.”
Ghauri also claimed that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Anti-Corruption Establishment had sought the record of recruitments, financial and administrative embezzlements among other affairs and it had been provided to both the agencies.