JS body chair seeks ACC apology: Do some people want license for corruption?
Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to apologise for its two years' activities during the previous caretaker government.
Criticising the role of the ACC during the caretaker government the committee chairman observed that there is no necessity of the commission.
"We don't need the ACC that worked as stooge to protect interests of vested quarters in violation of the constitution during the caretaker government," he said while talking to reporters at Media Centre after the meeting of his committee at Sangsad Bhaban.
Terming the Government initiative to amend the ACC law positive Alamgir said, "We don't want to make the institute stronger with teeth and nails so that it can bit somebody without any fault."
He argued that in the democratic system, the position of the appointed authorities like ACC, Election Commission (EC) and Public Service Commission cannot be above Parliament.
The committee chairman said the ACC has to work in accordance with the law of the land. In this connection, he alleged that the ACC took foreign assistance directly by violating the Constitution.
"The then ACC chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury sold furniture of the Commission without any tender. Who will conduct its trial?" he questioned.
He also raised questions as to why people who sent crores of Taka through money laundering saved them and where is the ACC notice that was served to owner of the daily Prothom Alo and Transcom Group.
Alamgir also alleged that the ACC harassed politicians without faults during Farkhruddin and Moyeen-U-Ahmed-led caretaker government.
"I was forced to give a statement against Sheikh Hasina. Subsequently, I was arrested as a did not give the said statement. I was awarded punishment but no allegation brought against me was proved," he said.
Criticisng the statement of Prof Muzaffar Ahmed on amendment of ACC law, Alamgir said he (Muzaffar) has violated the court saying that many corrupt people were elected lawmakers taking the advantage of legal loopholes.
"We have been released through legal fight, then came to Parliament taking the mandate of the people. But he (Muzaffar) is talking without the support of people and by spending foreign moneytHe has no principle. He is a most corrupt person," he alleged.
Earlier, he told reporters that the meeting discussed corruption of 5 executive engineers of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), misappropriation of foreign remittance against export LC of Sonali Bank, failure of Sonali Bank to realise loan and misappropriation of depositors' money in Rupali Bank during the BNP-led four-party government regime. The meeting also discussed the audit report on the ACC, he said.
Committee members-Prof Md Ali Ashraf, MK Anwar, Muhammad Imajuddin, Mohammad Syedul Haque, AKM Rahmatullah, Khan Tipu Sultan, Maj Gen (Retd) Abdus Salam, Narayan Chandra Chanda and Ms Farida Akhter attended the meeting.
Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to apologise for its two years' activities during the previous caretaker government.
Criticising the role of the ACC during the caretaker government the committee chairman observed that there is no necessity of the commission.
"We don't need the ACC that worked as stooge to protect interests of vested quarters in violation of the constitution during the caretaker government," he said while talking to reporters at Media Centre after the meeting of his committee at Sangsad Bhaban.
Terming the Government initiative to amend the ACC law positive Alamgir said, "We don't want to make the institute stronger with teeth and nails so that it can bit somebody without any fault."
He argued that in the democratic system, the position of the appointed authorities like ACC, Election Commission (EC) and Public Service Commission cannot be above Parliament.
The committee chairman said the ACC has to work in accordance with the law of the land. In this connection, he alleged that the ACC took foreign assistance directly by violating the Constitution.
"The then ACC chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury sold furniture of the Commission without any tender. Who will conduct its trial?" he questioned.
He also raised questions as to why people who sent crores of Taka through money laundering saved them and where is the ACC notice that was served to owner of the daily Prothom Alo and Transcom Group.
Alamgir also alleged that the ACC harassed politicians without faults during Farkhruddin and Moyeen-U-Ahmed-led caretaker government.
"I was forced to give a statement against Sheikh Hasina. Subsequently, I was arrested as a did not give the said statement. I was awarded punishment but no allegation brought against me was proved," he said.
Criticisng the statement of Prof Muzaffar Ahmed on amendment of ACC law, Alamgir said he (Muzaffar) has violated the court saying that many corrupt people were elected lawmakers taking the advantage of legal loopholes.
"We have been released through legal fight, then came to Parliament taking the mandate of the people. But he (Muzaffar) is talking without the support of people and by spending foreign moneytHe has no principle. He is a most corrupt person," he alleged.
Earlier, he told reporters that the meeting discussed corruption of 5 executive engineers of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), misappropriation of foreign remittance against export LC of Sonali Bank, failure of Sonali Bank to realise loan and misappropriation of depositors' money in Rupali Bank during the BNP-led four-party government regime. The meeting also discussed the audit report on the ACC, he said.
Committee members-Prof Md Ali Ashraf, MK Anwar, Muhammad Imajuddin, Mohammad Syedul Haque, AKM Rahmatullah, Khan Tipu Sultan, Maj Gen (Retd) Abdus Salam, Narayan Chandra Chanda and Ms Farida Akhter attended the meeting.
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