LAHORE:
Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi revealed on Saturday that money had been offered to him for advantageous appointments and procurements during his tenure.
Chairing the farewell session of the caretaker provincial cabinet, he shed light on the pervasive culture of bribery ensnaring chief ministers, ministers and senior officials.
Naqvi divulged that he had encountered offers, including a proposition of Rs100 million for the appointment an executive engineer (XEN) in a department.
“I was approached with inducements ranging from Rs5 million to Rs10 million in Dubai in exchange for the procurement of electric buses. On numerous occasions, nearly every quarter of my term, attempts were made to sway me with Rs50 million for the appointment of a cooperatives registrar,” he disclosed to his cabinet colleagues and senior members of the bureaucracy.
He acknowledged the low salaries and limited facilities available to civil servants in Punjab compared to the private sector.
However, unlike his team and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), neither the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) nor the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and other opposition parties were pleased with the caretaker CM and his team. Opposition parties levelled accusations against them of unfair treatment and political engineering in favour of the PML-N during the general elections.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 25th, 2024.
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