DADU, Dec 20: The anti-corruption establishment (ACE), Dadu, on Saturday raided the office of the EDO education and seized the record of the School Management Committee (SMC) funds and illegal appointments of primary teachers.
According to details, a team of anti-corruption police, Dadu, led by circle officer Ayaz Ahmed Pandhiani, raided the office of the EDO education and seized the record of SMC funds and appointments of 2000 primary teachers.
The circle officer anti-corruption police recorded the statements of the education officers including former EDOs education, Muhammad Aslam Turk, Qamaruddin Farooqui, Allah Bachayo Khaskheli, Ghulam Nabi Lakhair, and Ghulam Mustafa Kalhoro.
Meanwhile, the provincial education minister Irfanullah Marwat, after receiving complaints from District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar, about embezzlement of Rs120 million in the SMC funds and illegal appointments of primary teachers, had constituted a departmental inquiry team headed by a senior education officer Qazi Zamir Hussain.
The team conducted inquiry against some 100 officers of Dadu district.
Talking to Dawnthe circle officer anti-corruption police, Ayaz Ahmed Pandhiani, said that police have also seized the record of district accounts office and an inquiry was also being conducted against district accounts office, Dadu.
The Nazim Dadu, Malik Asad Sikandar, said that he had sent complaints to the provincial minister for education about embezzlement in SMC funds and illegal appointments of primary teachers.
He said that he had sent a list of some 100 corrupt officials of education to the provincial government.
He said that due to appointment of corrupt officials on key posts in the district, the entire educational system has collapsed.
SHOT DEAD: One person was shot dead, when he offered resistance to foil a robbery bid on Saturday.
According to sources, five unidentified armed men barged into the house of Ahmed Ali Arain in village Jan Muhammad Arain, Khairpur Nathan Shah taluka .
They held all the family members hostage at gunpoint in a room, looted gold ornaments, cash and other valuables. They also tried to take away cattle heads but the inmates offered resistance.
The armed men shot dead Sajan Arain, 22, son of Ahmed Ali Arain and escaped.
LOADSHEDDING: Power supply to Dadu city remained suspended for six hours without any announcement on Saturday.
This unannounced closure of electricity hit business and office works. As a reaction, citizens, social workers and activists of different political parties staged a demonstration outside local press club on Saturday.
The demonstrators alleged that the Hesco officials were resorting to shutdown to cover line losses and added that power was being supplied to factories and influential people illegally. The Hesco men, they added, were receiving thousands of rupees monthly in different towns of the district.