Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, Chairman NAB visited NAB KP Regional Bureau to review its performance on the basis of annual inspection conducted by Chairman's Inspection & Monitoring Team (CI&MT) at NAB KP Bureau here on Wednesday. NAB Chairman CI&MT was deputed to conduct annual inspection of NAB KP Regional Bureau for the year 2016. The annual inspection was carried out from Feb 6-8, 2017 to review and evaluate the performance of NAB Lahore Bureau on the basis of newly introduced Partly Quantified Grading System (PQGS).
Senior Member, Chairman CI&MT along with his team conducted the said annual inspection for the year 2016. He gave a detailed briefing to Chairman NAB about the annual inspection done by CI&MT and highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of NAB KP Regional Bureau.
He informed that on the directions of Chairman NAB Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, PQGS had been devised in 2014. Under this PQGS, the performance of all NAB's Regional Bureaus is being conducted since 2014 at uniform criteria.
The Chairman NAB directed CI&MT Chairman along with his team to conduct annual inspection of all regional NAB's Bureaus of their performance of 2016 which started from January 2017 and annual inspection of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Sukkur and Lahore have been conducted.
The annual inspection of NAB KP was carried out from Feb 6-8, 2017. Chairman NAB directed Chairman's Inspection and Monitoring Team gave final presentation about the performance of NAB KP during 2016.
He informed in his presentation that in 2016, NAB KP received 3,815 complaints; all were process according to the law. NAB KP, out of 265 complaints verifications, 237 complaint verifications completed. NAB KP, out of 264 inquiries, completed 159 whereas out of 93 investigations, it has completed 62 investigations on merit. During 2016, NAB KP has arrested 101 corrupts and filed 57 corruption references during 2016 and conviction ratio is about 81.81 percent. During 2016, NAB KP has recovered Rs 3174.679 million.
The NAB Chairman said NAB KP was the trend setter region. He appreciated NAB KP for continuous maintaining its standard in all the aspects of Accountability and Administration. He said corruption was the mother of all evils. NAB is committed to eradicate corruption by adopting Zero Tolerance Policy as corruption creates hurdles in development and deprives people from their due right.