Kathmandu, October 12:

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala today stressed the need for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to be more impartial and more competent to control corruption in the country.

Only after strengthening the CIAA can democracy be strengthened in the nation, Koirala said, inaugurating a building of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority at Tangal.

Pointing at improvement in its performance in recent years despite difficult times, Koirala urged the CIAA to be more transport and efficient. Without pinpointing any “mistake”, he called the CIAA to rectify its “mistakes”.

“The CIAA had resorted to punitive means to combat corruption in the past,” chief commissioner of the CIAA, Surya Nath Upadhyaya, said, adding: “Now on, the CIAA will take preventive measures to combat corruption.