Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched the country’s first anti-graft mobile application called ‘Report Corruption.’ through which the people can report corruption to the authorities.
Prime Minister Imran said the vision of Naya Pakistan could not be accomplished unless the people fully take part in the government’s ongoing “jihad” against corruption by exposing the corrupt elements in the society.
“Although Naya Pakistan is in the making, the dream will come true only when the youth participate in the process and chase the looters,” the prime minister said while addressing the launching ceremony of “Report Corruption” mobile application.
“Unfortunately, people shower flowers on looters and corrupt people. The whole nation will have to take part in the government’s ongoing ‘jihad’ against corruption by exposing corrupt elements in society,” he said.
The prime minister also advised the Punjab government to publicise the performance of the mobile application on monthly basis.
The Prime Minister stated that there are examples of Beirut, Chile and Iraq with stark contrast of how the countries where corruption is prevalent suffer from poverty despite immense resources whereas the countries like China which dealt with it sternly have moved on economic prosperity and welfare of the people.
He said the Chinese economy was considered as the fastest growing economy just because the Chinese people as well as the government had arose against the corrupt people and above 400 minister level people were jailed on corruption charges.
He said the Chinese people considered President Xi Jinping as a real statesman because they had realised that corruption was the major reason to beget poverty.
Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Buzdar said the launch of the mobile application was a remarkable achievement as it would enable the people to report corruption through their mobile phones. The provincial government, he said, had retrieved land valuing Rs132bn from illegal occupation, besides recovering Rs4.75bn from corrupt people. He said the government vowed neither to commit any corruption nor let anyone else to do so.
Shahzad Akbar said that around Rs132bn had been recovered during one-and-a-half years of the PTI-led Punjab government. He said that after launching the mobile application, the provincial government had planned to digitalise the entire anti-corruption department.
The Punjab anti-corruption director general said that during the past 16 months, they had received 31,746 complaints and held 6,883 inquiries into these cases. A total of Rs1,798.82 million had been recovered and land worth Rs12,738.95m had been retrieved from illegal occupation.
