KOHAT: Acting on public complaints, the district administration has suspended four officials of the slaughterhouse over unhygienic conditions and sale of unhealthy meat.

District nazim Naseem Afridi and deputy commissioner Matiullah Khan visited the makeshift slaughterhouse and found rotten blood of animals spread all over and dysfunctional drainage system.

They suspended four officials on the spot for not ensuring cleanliness and ordered immediate washing of the slaughterhouse. The butchers, meanwhile, complained that they were evicted from the old slaughterhouse due last year for construction of new one and since then they had been shifted to several places because local residents did not allow it in their area due to bad smell.

They said they had been promised that new building would be ready by October 2018, but it could not materialise. They said they had no choice but to slaughter animals at temporary places where the TMA did not provide them water or lift the garbage.

Meanwhile, the anti-corruption department registered FIRs against executive engineers of Public Health Engineering Department and the contractor for laying substandard pipeline in Muslimabad.

Following complaints, a technical team was sent for checking which found the complaints correct. FIRs were registered against executive engineer Irfan Rasheed, who was presently serving in Peshawar, retired Xen Mujtaba Khan and contractor Azam Khan for laying faulty pipeline and causing a loss of Rs2.5 million to the government exchequer.

APPOINTMENTS ON MERIT: Adviser to the chief minister on education, Ziaullah Khan Bangash, has said that thousands of teachers have been appointed in last two months on merit.

Talking to mediapersons here, he said the PTI government had fulfilled its promise of awakening of the people and today they could speak for their rights. He vowed to make Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a model province. He claimed that the police and other departments had been depoliticised.

Published in Dawn, February 6th, 2019