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DADU, Jan 31: No meeting of the District Council, Dadu, has been held since the last five months, following the resignation of Sadaqat Jatoi, who had opted for participating in the general elections.
In the absence of a council session, the work of the district government has come to a standstill. Besides, the post of the district Naib Nazim was lying vacant.
The former district Naib Nazim, Sadaqat Ali Jatoi, had resigned from the post on Aug 24. He was elected the district Naib Nazim with the support of the district Nazim, Malik Asad Sikandar.
Since his resignation, no session of the council has been held.
According to the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001, 05 sub-section of section 156, “a vacancy of the district Naib Nazim shall be filled through by-elections within three days after the occurrence of vacancy”.
The sub-section II of section 42, Local Government Ordinance, also makes mandatory that “the district Council session shall meet at least once every month and shall be in session for at least 50 days a year”.
A member, District Council, and leader of the Awam Dost Panel, Mohammad Paryal Birhamani, said that due to the wrong policies of the former district Naib Nazim only 11 sessions of the council had been held since its inception, while ever since the vacant post of convener no session had been held.
He said the entire district had been badly affected and no official was ready to resolve the problems of the people.
He said that he had written to the Sindh government and the Election Commission through the district Nazim to hold elections of the district Naib Nazim but in vain.
On being contacted, the district Nazim, Malik Asad Sikandar, said that he had written to the Election Commission to hold elections for the district Naib Nazim, Dadu, as the post was lying vacant since the last five months and the working of the district government had been badly affected.
BOYCOTT: Teachers of the primary schools on Friday boycotted classes in the seven talukas of the district besides staging a demonstration on the fourth consecutive day of their protest against officials of the district accounts office.
The district president of the Primary Teachers’ Association, Ghulam Rasool Chandio, later accused officers of the district accounts office of demanding 10 percent of their income for passing their bills, including that of their salaries, TAs and GP fund.
PROTEST: A group of residents, including women, staged a protest demonstration in Radhan and blocked Mehar-Radhan road on Thursday to protest against the excesses of local police.
They alleged that the Radhan police arrested an innocent man, Ghulam Sarwar Machhi, from the town on Wednesday and sent him to jail in a fake narcotics case after he refused to pay Rs10,000 bribe to the SHO of the Radhan police.
The demonstrators demanded a stern action against the police officials and release of Machhi.
