KABUL (SW): A government commission revealed on Tuesday up to 1394 employees of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) have been dismissed in the ongoing cleansing drive in the security sector.
Gen. Helaluddin Helal, Chairman of the Special Anti-Corruption and Transparency Commission, told journalists in Kabul as many as 946 officers and many others have been dismissed since September last year. Gen. Helal said the MoD employees dismissed from their posts have been found guilty of corruption and breaching the military code. Most of the officials have been sacked in the procurement section of the MoD.
“The dossier of those dismissed from posts have been sent to the judiciary, new people have been employed at the vacant posts, and they are doing good job”, he said, adding the drive would continue. Gen. Helal added those dismissed from their posts included civilians as well as armed service members. He added that dossiers of some 1107 other MoD employees charged with corruption, embezzlement and violation of the military code are under consideration at the Ministry, while cases of some 141 other officials have been sent to the anti-corruption tribunal.
Meanwhile, Nazeer Ahmadzai, deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (lower house), has said the President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has assured a delegation of the parliament that all those individuals in the security sector would be dismissed who got illegally appointed due to different sort of affiliations. He told Salam Watandar that fair and capable individuals would replace those terminated from their posts.
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