CM Naqvi orders audit after Abbasi alleges billions of rupees corruption in free flour

Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi has approached the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) and likewise introduced holding an unbiased audit of the free flour scheme after Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) chief Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s corruption allegations in opposition to the provincial and federal authorities.

“Baseless allegations by some PML-N leaders concerning ‘Free Atta Scheme’ in Punjab being put to unbiased audit within the curiosity of transparency and monetary prudence,” he stated in a tweet from his official deal with on Saturday.

He additionally added that the interim set-up determined to go for a right away audit by means of Auditor Common Pakistan (AGP) workplace, and concurrently by means of a personal audit agency of established worldwide reputation.

“Additional, we’ve additionally despatched a request to the Chairman NAB to test into this system to confirm if something of the type has been completed by any nefarious components,” the interim CM added.

Final week, Abbasi had claimed that Rs20 billion have been embezzled from the federal and provincial authorities’s free flour distribution scheme.

Addressing a ceremony in Lahore, the ruling get together chief stated that the nation’s system has develop into “so corrupt and outdated” that it can not ship.

He stated corrupt authorities officers could be recognized previously “however right now is the time when we’ve to search for sincere officers”.

Abbasi requested what did poor get out of the Rs84 billion subsidy allotted by the federal and provincial governments to supply free flour to the poor through the holy month of Ramadan.

“Greater than Rs20 billion have been stolen within the authorities’s free flour scheme,” he alleged.

Responding to his allegations, the Centre and the caretaker authorities of Punjab rejected his claims.

Federal Info Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb stated thousands and thousands of poor individuals in Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Islamabad have been supplied free flour through the holy month with “full transparency and honesty”.

She stated that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif himself visited the flour distribution factors in several cities.