SUKKUR: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Sukkur Director General Altaf Bawani has said that an inquiry against two politicians, Abdul Sattar Rajpar and Rauf Khoso, is under way.

The officers concerned should understand that the supremacy of law was very important and now there was no chance of committing corruption, he said. He was speaking at a programme held to hand over the money recovered by the NAB from corrupt officers to the Sindh government at the Sukkur Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and later talking to the media on Thursday.

Mr Bawani said people would have to play their role in checking corruption as NAB alone could not eliminate it. Upon coming to know about corruption anywhere, they should come forward and inform the NAB through an application, he said, adding that the institution would definitely take action against the culprits.

He said that recently the NAB had recovered national wealth of about Rs11 million from corrupt officers and the money was now being handed over to the government. A probe into more corruption cases was under way, he added.

So far, around Rs1 billion had been recovered and restored to the provincial kitty, he said, adding that after the NAB coming into action against corrupt officials, it was quite impossible for others to plunder the public wealth.

He said that during the last year, around 30,000 complaints of corruption had been received from Sindh, more than 4,000 of them from the Sukkur region alone. Inquiries were conducted and several cases were sent to the National Accountability Court while investigations into some cases were under way.

NAB Special Finance Secretary Hassan Naqvi handed over cheques of the amounts recovered from corrupt officers to the zonal incharge of the State Life Insurance Company at the programme.

Sukkur Commissioner Mohammed Abbas Baloch, DIG Azhar Rasheed Khan and a large number officials of various departments attended the programme.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2016