DADU, July 27: The Nazims, Naib Nazims and councillors of different union councils of Kotri and Sehwan Talukas have decided to launch a campaign.

The campaign would aim at pressure the Right Bank Outfall

Drain project officials to provide jobs to local people, ensure payment of compensation for land to small growers and salaries to 100 daily-wage employees and change the layout of the RBOD at the historical site of Amri.

This was decided at a meeting of the area people. The meeting was organized by the Sindh Democratic Alliance leader, Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, in Sann town on Sunday.

After the meeting, Mr Shah told this correspondent that the RBOD officers were not appointing local people in the project, and added that only a 100 people were appointed but they had not been paid their salaries for the last four months.

He said that the RBOD Nullah was being dug at the centre of the historical site, Amri Ja Dar, and some villages of the area, while compensation for the land was not being paid to the growers.

He said that his people had not stopped the work of the RBOD at any place but due to the apathy of the officials concerned, the work had been stopped at various places.

He said that the RBOD officers were blaming him for interfering in the project. He denied such allegations.

He said that he was just demanding the rights of the local people.

He complained that the people were running from pillar to post to get land compensation but the officers were using delaying tactics.

He alleged that RBOD officers had embezzled money and destroyed the project, and added that for covering up their corruption, they were blaming the local people.

Mr Shah elucidated that the chief engineer, development, who is the project director of the RBOD, is the same officer under whose supervision the work of Bhanote T-spur along the river embankment was carried out some 18 months back but the money was embezzled and the work was delayed.

He appealed to President Gen Pervez Musharraf to remove all such officials from the RBOD project immediately.