Parliament Deputy Speaker blasts ACC, calls them “incompetent”

Parliament Deputy Speaker and Dhiggaru MP Ahmed Nazim on Monday heavily criticized the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) calling it incompetent.

At the SOE Committee meeting at Monday’s parliament sitting, Nazim had claimed the commission’s investigations have not been proceeding.

At Monday’s committee meeting, members of ACC were summoned for questioning, where Nazim criticized the commission’s investigations lagged for days. He further criticized that other authorities are barred from investigating any case that ACC has taken up for probing, alleging it was blocking the involvement of others.

“If that is the case, then you all are sitting idle while holding on to a significant mandate,” Nazim continued to lambaste ACC.

He further argued the state gets eight years to pursue criminal litigation according to the Criminal Procedure Act, but the commission deliberately stalls the investigation of cases and forward the reports after the eight-year window elapsed, because of cases are not accepted at the courts.

He noted that a case ACC investigated is nearing eight years since it had been stalled at the court.

“You are making the same arguments during each administration, but there’s no result. Now, we are required to change the commission, and the next five [ACC members] to take over will be the same. So, what’s the solution for this?” Nazim questioned at the meeting.

Nazim was primarily concerned that the former Fenaka Corporation’s Managing Director Ahmed Saeed Mohamed was not dismissed from his role despite multiple corruption cases filed with the commission.

When ACC was inquired why Saeed was not dismissed, the commission’s members responded they had counseled then administration for the same, but was not complied with.