Teachers, religious scholars, elders and other stakeholders must pay special attention to inculcate ethical and moral values among the people in order to wipe out corruption from our homeland, said University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Iqbal Zafar.

Teachers, religious scholars, elders and other stakeholders must pay special attention to inculcate ethical and moral values among the people in order to wipe out corruption from our homeland, said University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Iqbal Zafar. He addressed an awareness seminar on Anti Corruption arranged by UAF and National Accountably Bureau ( NAB) at Iqbal Auditorium. He said that corruption means not only financial corruption but also lack of commitment in shouldering responsibilities, work, and education etc was also a kind of corruption. He said there is a need to create the awareness among the people to wipe out the menace that eats up the economy and hampers the progress of country. He said that the injection of good ethics would pave the way to obliterate the corruption. He added that the university was making all out efforts to inject the good characteristics among the students so that they would play their effective role in the development. NAB Deputy Director Muhammad Sajid said that corruption means the moral impurity, act of wrongdoings, and misuse of authority for private gains. He added different methods including bribery, embezzlement, and nepotism etc are being used for the corruption. He urged the people not to be engaged in any activity which lead to breach of law. He said corruption is an evil that decreases the productivity and economic growth; increase the price of basic commodity and reduces domestic and foreign investment; deepens the extent of poverty and undermine the legitimacy of state. He said that NAB is aimed at to be a credible, effective, efficient, and dynamic anti corruption organization that creates an enabling environment for a corruption free society by engagement all stakeholders in the fight against corruption. He said that they have the missions to eliminate the corruption through three pronged strategy including enforcement, prevention and awareness. They also took out the rally to create the awareness about anti corruption.