[ALOCHONA] Professor Yunus is expected to lead by deeds, not words

What  our susil media alo- star says about their once their cohort in search of honest and  competent  candidate?   http://www.newagebd.com/2008/aug/16/edit.html For years now, a number of individuals and organisations, including some leading private-sector mobile phone operators, have been involved in the illegal use of voice over internet protocol for international call transmission, depriving the public exchequer crores of takas in unpaid revenues. Hence, we have always advocated for stringent governmental measure against such malpractices and welcomed it when the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission waged a war, so to speak, against both big- and small-time VoIP operators. We were hardly surprised when such leading telecom companies as the GrameenPhone, which happens to be the largest mobile phone operator in the country, and the Telecom Malaysia International (Bangladesh), which owns Aktel, were fined Tk 168.40 crore and Tk 145 crore respectively for VoIP-related offence in 2007.    However, the involvement of the GrameenPhone in an illegal operation saddened us; after all, the company is linked to Professor Muhammad Yunus, who has brightened the country's image by winning the Nobel Peace Prize along with the Grameen Bank. Now that the telecom regulatory commission has again fined the GrameenPhone – Tk 250 crore this time around – for the same offence, we feel ashamed and outraged; more so because Professor Yunus has hardly ever tired of preaching the need for good governance, accountability and transparency at all spheres of the nation's life. When a company is associated with a person of Professor Yunus's stature, it may do one of two things – abuse his fame to maximise profit or protect his name by adhering to incontrovertible corporate practices. Regrettably, the GrameenPhone has shunned the latter, which is desirable, and settled for the former, which is deplorable.    Professor Yunus should know better that all his talks about good governance, accountability and transparency would ring hollow, if these are not practised in the institution that he is organically linked to. He should also realise that he himself is an institution and is, therefore, expected to lead by deeds not words. Hence, unless and until he manages to bring his own house in order, his preaching for good governance, accountability and transparency in national life would count for little আল্লাহ যাকে যখন ইচ্ছা ক্ষমতা দান করেন,মাইনাস টু ফরমুলায় তাই হাসেন http://www.microscopiceye.blogspot.com/

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