Minister for Education and Labour Sindh Saeed Ghani on Saturday announced that he will go to the Karachi office of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday and offer himself up for arrest.
While addressing a press conference in the port city, “I said this yesterday, and today I am saying it again. Investigate me, file a case, I will not seek bail. I will go to to NAB’s office on Monday. I will say ‘Here I am. Arrest me if you will. Take me away on remand.”
Ghani claimed that he will not enter a plea even if the bureau puts in a request for a 90-day remand.
He said that NAB Chairman (r) Justice Javed Iqbal is “continuously blackmailed by the government”, adding that no notice was ever issued against him for speaking out against the NAB chairman.
He said that PPP members Khursheed Shah and Aijaz Jhakrani were being subjected to “cruelty” and when he spoke out against it, he was told action will be taken against him under Section 31-A of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999.
“Then in another press release, it was stated that some investigations are underway against me in NAB’s Karachi office,” he said. “I do not fear any probe against me. They can go right ahead”.
He reiterated that he had spoken out against the NAB chairman multiple times, but no one spoke of any action under Section 31-A. However, he said, that the fiasco began as soon as he spoke out against Haleem Adil Sheikh.
Ghani said that it was “NAB itself that had stated that Sheikh had illegally occupied 264 acres of land.
“Why is he not being arrested? Why is his name not on the ECL?” he questioned.
“I will go to NAB’s office alone on Monday. I will not take any party worker with me. We will see what happens. This is the NAB-Niazi nexus. NAB is the political weapon of PTI,” he said.
