KARACHI – NAB has turned it guns towards the Sindh government and seekeddetails of the contracts by the Sindh government.
NAB launches full scale investigations against almost all the Sindhgovernment departments dealing with the development projects. In thisregard, the Bureau wrote a letter to the Sindh chief secretary for theprovision of record of contracts above the amount of Rs 50 millions.
Sindh NAB’s Additional Director Nadeem Sheikh on behalf of Sindh NABdirector general asked the Sindh chief secretary through an official letterto provide complete record of contracts including record of projectsawarded, copies of work orders along with the administrative approval ofsuch contracts amounting to Rs50 million or above of all the Sindhgovernment, local government, all attached departments, statutorycorporations and authorities.
Some Rs1,600 billions of rupees had been spent on the Sindh province’sdevelopment projects in last ten years during two tenures of PakistanPeople’s Party governments. The party on many times on different forumscame under criticism for less performance on ground despite spending hugemoney.
Only in ongoing fiscal year 2018-19, Rs252 billion was sanctioned fordevelopment projects of Sindh province.
It is pertinent to mention here that frustrated with the NAB actions, SindhAssembly last year on July 2, 2017 passed ‘National AccountabilityOrdinance 1999 Repeal Bill 2017’ introduced by the PPP, aimed to bar theNAB actions in Sindh government departments and repeal the applicability ofthe NAO in Sindh government departments and autonomous bodies controlled bythe Sindh government.