ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau informed the Supreme Court on Friday that in compliance with its directive the bureau had established a special monitoring and evaluation wing to ensure integrity checks, quality standards, transparency and effectiveness of NAB’s performance.

The information was shared by NAB on behalf of its Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry with a two-judge bench headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal that had taken up a case relating to the bureau’s `poor’ working and performance.

The special wing will function under the office of NAB’s Deputy Chairman Saeed Sarghana.

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NAB’s Prosecutor General Waqas Qadeer Dar and Secretary of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) Sarwar Khan informed the bench that the bureau would complete the task of developing the case data mechanism by Aug 30 as per the court directive. The bureau’s regional offices are in the process of entering data by creating user accounts for their offices and the task will be completed by Aug 30. The status of every case will be available at the bureau’s website.

The special wing will function under the office of NAB’s deputy chairman

The NAB prosecutor general said the cases relating to misappropriation of funds through misuse of official authority had been divided into three categories; misappropriation of funds of up to Rs50 million, Rs500m, and those running in billions.

According to a report submitted to the court, the LJCP secretary and NAB are engaged in an extensive deliberation on carrying out monitoring and evaluation through a value chain analysis of the bureau’s working.

The value chain analysis is a tool to get optimum results and valuable achievements.

In this regard, the report said, a beta version of software was being developed to ensure transparency in the registration of complaints and their verification, inquiry, investigation, prosecution, preparation of writ and appeals, holding of the bureau’s executive board meetings to decide filing of references against the accused, voluntary return and plea bargain, issuance of arrest warrants and placing the names of the accused in the exit control list.

Operational activities have been enhanced to ensure that no outstanding complaint registration remains pending and the backlog has been removed through regular monitoring of complaints.

According to the report, NAB has developed an effective and efficient monitoring and evaluation framework to improve its performance and working.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2015

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