Yesterday the Arab Times reported that Proshika, a leading NGO, would be participating in the polls under the banner of the United Citizens Movement. I haven’t been able to get any confirmation of this development. However I came across the articles below detailing cases against the Proshika chief and other staff.
Does anyone have any information on Proshika and whether it will participate in the elections?
Thanks
Ezajur Rahman
ACC to sue Proshika chief
Faruk, others
United News of
The Anti-Corruption Commission is likely to sue Kazi Faruk Ahmed, chairman of the well-known NGO Proshika, and others within this week for alleged misappropriation and giving scholarship to kinsmen ‘in breach of rules’.
According to ACC sources, inquiry reports of both the cases have already been submitted to the commission, recommending the filing of the cases against Kazi Faruk, his son and others for misappropriating the money illegally transferred from Proshika Computer Systems and giving scholarship to his children by breaching the set rules.
Subject to the approval of the commission, the cases are likely to be filed within this week.
A case will be filed against Kazi Faruk, his son and Proshika Computer Systems chief executive officer Kazi Rubayet Ahmed and two members of the Proshika Computer Systems trust — Motiur Rahman and Badrudozza Swapan — for misappropriating Tk 1.03 crore after illegally transferring the amount from the account of the Proshika’s computer wing.
Another case will be filed against the Proshika chief and others for giving $24,000 scholarship to his son Kazi Bulland Musabbir and daughter Kazi Rifat Zabin from Proshika’s foreign-currency account by breaching the conditions of the Bangladesh Bank.
Proshika executives Mahbubul Karim, David William Biswas, Yusuf Ali Miah and Standard Chartered Bank senior official Mirza Aminur Rahman are also going to be accused in this case.
Crackdown on Proshika on
with 80 more arrests
New Age 12/9/06 Staff Correspondent
The law enforcers continued crackdown on Proshika, a leading development organisation, with the arrest of 80 more of its staff across the country on Monday.
The arrested were sent to jail, after their bail petitions had been rejected by the court, a Proshika lawyer said.
He said they were implicated in various pending cases on crimes like theft, robbery, rioting or arson.
‘In all the case forwarding, the police expressed only the suspicion that the detained persons might have been involved in the criminal incidents,’ the lawyer said.
In most of the incidents, the police called the Proshika staff to the police stations, chatted with them and then implicated them in the pending cases, he said.
According to him, ‘The officials and employees are working for the betterment of the people and have no time to commit such criminal activities.’
Reports pouring in from across the country say the arrests were made because the police believe the Proshika workers are linked with some opposition political parties and preparing for a movement against the government at the fag end of its tenure.
The police action was launched following the massive rally in Rajshahi on September 5 by Sammilita Nagarik Andolan, in organising
which Proshika played a leading role.
Justice KM Sobhan, former
The mammoth public meeting demanded reforms in the caretaker government and resignation of the chief election commissioner and his colleagues to ensure a free and fair general election to pave way for a ‘truly democratic government as per the aspiration of the War of Liberation’.
The Nagarik Andolan plans to hold rallies in other divisional cities followed by a national rally in
Meanwhile, different organisations have condemned the arrest of Proshika staff and demanded their immediate and unconditional release.
‘The arrest and torture on Proshika staff are completely against their basic rights and violations of their human rights,’ the Association of Development Agencies in
Demanding release of all arrested Proshika staff, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal in a press statement said, when the government was reluctant to take action against the government employees who took part in political activities in support of the ruling alliance, the law enforcers started harassing and torturing the officials and employees of a non-government organisation, which reflected an utterly discriminatory attitude.
The JSD president, Hasanul Haque Inu, and general secretary, Syed Jafar
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