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MAKE CIAA STRONGER



MAKE CIAA STRONGER

In Nepal, the attire of anti-corruption body known previously as Commission for Prevention of Abuse of Authority (CPAA) and now Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) kept changing as per the wish and intention of lawmakers based upon their vestigial interests. Now, the draft constitution has further tried to clip its wings limiting its role of taking action against corruption charges. It has been relieved from taking actions against improper conduct that used to be one of the major role of existing CIAA (“Off the hook” by Narayan Manandhar, 15 July, Page 6).

The existing number of six commissioners has been proposed to reduce to five without citing any reasons whatsoever. It is not known whether it will retain corruption prevention and anticorruption education and awareness functions. It is known to everybody that Nepal is continuously sliding down in corruption index as one of the most corrupt nation. Instead of strengthening the role of existing CIAA, proposal has been made to make it more weaker organization. This indicates the law makers whoever were involved in drafting process do not seem serious in giving more authority to CIAA indicating their ill intentions.

I am not surprised to know that former CIAA chief, Surya N, Upaadhaya, infuriated by the proposal to curtail the powers of existing CIAA, has written an article saying it is better to scrap the constitutional anti-corruption agency rather than pretending to have one as show piece in the country. Time has come for the concerned actors to play more proactive role in exerting positive pressure on the CA members to amend the draft proposal for making existing CIAA more stronger than ever.

Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj.

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