PESHAWAR: Demanding across-the-board accountability, the dissident MNAs and MPAs of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Thursday asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to order judicial inquiry into the Bank of Khyber scam.
They also extended full support for PTI chief Imran Khan’s 10 points agenda and announced that the group along with their supporters would take part in the protest movement slated to begin in Islamabad on August 7 against the government’s failure to ensure investigation into the Panama Leaks.
“We along with thousands of (PTI) workers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will proceed to Islamabad to take part in the August 7 protest rally,” MPA Yaseen Khan Khalil told a news conference at his residence here.
Five MNAs and seven members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly were also present on the occasion.
The group has formed a bloc against the government of own party in KP and leveled charges of corruption, nepotism and inefficiency against the cabinet members.
Mr. Khalil demanded the immediate judicial inquiry into the Bank of Khyber scandal and action against the culpable people.
He said a cabinet committee had completed its report but the government had taken action neither against the managing director of the bank nor against the finance minister.
“The time has come to conduct judicial inquiry in the BOK and fix responsibility,” he said.
The bank’s managing director had published an advertisement in newspapers accusing current finance minister Muzafar Said of misappropriating funds and recruiting his own people in the bank.
Earlier, the combined opposition in the assembly had demanded judicial inquiry into the scandal.
Mr. Khalil said the group fully supported Imran Khan’s 10 points agenda and urged the provincial government to implement that in letter and spirit.
He said free and fair accountability was the main point of the PTI’s manifesto and that the provincial Ehtesab Commission should be ‘restored’ to start accountability.
The MPA said the party did not issue show cause notice to any member of his group.
He said the group would meet Imran Khan in two days to bring its grievances and issues to his notice.
Mr. Khalil said the chief minister should keep the gates of his secretariat open to elected representatives and people to address their genuine problems.
He said the group would organise the worker conventions in all districts of the province and that the process would begin in August.
Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2016
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