Sindh Enquiries and Anti-Corruption Establishment Chairman, Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, has given the concerned officials the go-ahead to conduct raids and arrest corrupt officials involved in tanker mafia business in Karachi, Town Municipal Administrations across the province, Sub-Registrars of Co-operative Housing Societies besides, Revenue, Health and other high profile cases in other departments, and challan them in Courts of Law within the next 15 days.
He issued these directives in a meeting of Deputy Directors, from across the province, on Monday at his office, to review high profile cases and the progress made so far made on the cases. The meeting was also attended by Sindh Anti-Corruption Establishment Director, Nazar Muhammad Bozdar.
He directed all the deputy directors to establish an intelligence unit at their respective offices with a view to strengthen the intelligence collection, adding that they should observe vigilance on complaints of corruption in all departments in their respective jurisdictions.
In order to achieve success a campaign has been launched from within the department and as a first step, officials from other departments, working in this department, have been repatriated to their parent departments, he informed. A major reshuffle has been completed. He asked the deputy directors to furnish a report on the professional integrity of their sub-ordinate staff.
He informed the meeting that the chief secretary and the divisional commissioners have decided to convene meetings of the anti-corruption committee every month and every fortnight to review and expedite corruption cases.
Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah made a fervent appeal on the Civil Society Organisations to come forward and pinpoint financial corruption and corrupt practices in Government Departments and Organisations and assured them that identity of the source will be kept confidential and the complainant will also be informed of progress in the matters.
