KOHAT, Nov 14: The tussle between the district Nazim and the government over postings/transfers and execution of developmental schemes, pledged by a PML-Q leader and a former PPP minister Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani during his election campaign, is causing a constant problem to good governance.

As a result of the power game four senior officials of the Kohat Development Authority (KDA) are stuck between the two stools and suffering mental agony for the last so many months. In the KDA the duplication of orders has resulted in the posting of two project directors where none of them is ready to budge.

Similarly, there are two assistant directors working on the same seat and both have valid transfer orders, thanks to the illegal interference of the brother of the governor, Syed Tariq Hussain Shah who is also the city Nazim.

He hardly misses a chance to revoke the orders of the district Nazim to whom he lost the post in the LB polls. He is doing it in revenge for the last one year whereas the situation has aggravated after the defeat of Iftikhar Gilani in the national assembly elections allegedly made possible by the district Nazim.

Eng Daud who served as project director of the KDA for two years has been replaced by an OSD, Fazal ur Rehman who has posted himself in Kohat to regularize his service before he retires in March.

In the extreme of events one of the assistant directors, Azam Shah, who was transferred by the district government to Haripur has occupied his office illegally by locking it. He had been deliberately refusing to accept the warnings issued by the district coordination officer and the district Nazim in this regard for the last four months.

In a letter addressed to the government he has warned that in case he died during the course of tussle over his transfer between the provincial government and the Nazim the government would have to compensate his family by paying Rs10m.

On the other hand Eng Khan Beg, the assistant director, who has been posted at Kohat after his transfer from Haripur has not been paid salary for the last three months for obvious reasons.