ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry has said the number of complaints received so far in 2017 was twice that of the number of complaints received during the same period in 2015.
He added that early implementation of their Monitoring and Evaluation System (MES) should be ensured at all regional bureaus to help improve performance. The MES provides necessary data to guide strategic planning and achieve results to improve current and future management of outputs, outcomes and impact, Chaudhry remarked while chairing a fortnightly meeting held at the NAB Headquarters to review the latest progress on the bureau’s MES.
The chairman said that MES was an important management tool to track progress and it facilitates decision making as well as establishes links between the past, present and future actions.
He said that the bureau has taken various initiatives to rejuvenate the bureau in nabbing corrupt people.
During the meeting, advisor to chairman on MES briefed the chairman about the progress the system had made.
He said that the system has been developed to cater to the needs of all concerned and has salient features of maintaining data at each stage of the investigation including complaint entry, complaint verification, inquiry, investigation, prosecution stage and record proceedings of regional board meetings and executive board meetings including case brief and decisions made.
Chaudhry directed to further coordinate and that the decisions they had taken should be implemented in letter and spirit in order to improve the institutionalisation of support and supervision at different levels of management in NAB.
Moreover, he said that the MES also has an ability to analyse data in qualitative and quantitative terms with warnings and an alarm system for violators. The NAB chairman said that figures of complaints, inquiries and investigations had almost doubled when compared to the same period in 2015.
The comparative figures for the latest three years, he said, were indicative of the hard work being put in by all ranks of NAB staff in an atmosphere of renewed energy and dynamism, where the fight against corruption is being taken as a national duty.
