Dear Chowdhury,
Thanks. You have cited everything very truly & rightly. At the present situation, 90% innocent people of the country will fully admit with you. This is the actual picture of the present people's Government. We have given full verdict by casting our valuable mandate for free-style corruption in all sphere. It has broken all previous records of corruption. Government have no option to deny the facts.
Till now, we are all talking about the problem but now we have to think about the solution also. We cannot let the things go like this. Now this our tern to turn back to save the country. Now we should all think where to start.
So, let's invite all the true patriot people of the country to think about it , just not criticizing the Govt.& the corrupt people.
Zayeed
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Where Shall We Go: No Light in the end of the Tunnel
By F R Chowdhury, UK
Mr. A B M Musa is one of the senior-most journalists in Bangladesh. In
a recent gathering he advised everyone to shout "s/he is a thief" as
soon as any one connected with the Government is sighted. I am sure
that Mr Musa also knows very well that there are still some honest
people in the country working for the Government. Apparently one would
say that Mr. Musa should not have made such irresponsible utterances.
But when you think more deeply you can understand how frustrated Mr.
Musa felt with the present state of affairs.
Next day I read something very interesting. Mr. Musa writes about a
shipwrecked person in an island full of snakes, crocodiles and other
dangerous animals. Then he sees a ship passing-by and waves in
desperation. God responded to his call when he found a boat coming
from the ship. The man in the boat gave some recent newspapers and
said "you should read them and decide if you want to go back
Bangladesh or remain in the island".
When a very respected and elderly journalist like Mr. Musa writes and
speaks like that, it is time for us to look at things to its fullest
context and think if there is a limit to it or will it go on endless.
First let us talk about monetary corruption. I would not like to go on
details but would just touch upon a few of them. By now there is
hardly anyone in Bangladesh who has not heard about the case of
Hallmark group. I understand they took well over four thousand crores
of taka from the state-owned Sonali Bank and there is little hope that
the bank can recover that money. Yet the finance minister calls it
just a minor incident.
Another company known as "Destiny" took money not only from banks but
also from innocent public in general. Some of those involved have even
run away from the country. By market manipulation some people also
made quick money out of stock exchange and most of it has gone out of
the country. BEXIMCO group took full advantage of the inflated price
of their share to take a huge loan from the bank against shares as
security. The price of those shares is now not even 1/10th of the
negotiated deal. There is another very interesting case of a mortgaged
ship being sold without any reference to the bank. Such things can
only happen in Bangladesh.
Now let us talk about the most sensational case – Padma Bridge
project. Some people were too eager to make quick money and on the
assurances of various contracts took in advance a large sum of money.
I believe the transactions took place in Canada. When the Canadian
Police started investigating the matter, a young Bangladeshi (also
Canadian national) couple slipped out of Canada and returned to
Bangladesh. The World Bank who initially promised to finance most of
the project withdrew from the project. The WB provided the Government
some vital information relating to the corruption. The government
initially tried to laugh it out by saying how could there be any
corruption when contract have not been awarded. Then for a few days
the Government kept on blaming Professor Yunus for the WB decision.
Then slowly the cats started emerging out of the bag. One minister has
already resigned and another adviser is on the verge of resignation.
Perhaps the root of the corruption goes beyond that and it cannot be
resolved so easily.
Corruption is now deep rooted at every level of the society. A
minister's APS was caught with a car full of money in sacks on way to
minister's house. The minister resigned. He was still kept in the
cabinet as a minister without any portfolio. The Anti-corruption
Commission gained full confidence of the government by declaring the
minister innocent. The nation soon came to know the identity of two
new patriots. They are none other than the ministers who resigned on
charges of corruption. If you want to know how wide spread and deep
rooted the corruption network is then you have to visit any of the
government departments or agencies who are supposed to provide service
to the people. Let us start with local police, hospital, port office,
customs office, land registry and record office, and then go to
relevant offices for gas, electricity, water and to primary school for
admission of children. You will soon know that there is only one
solution to your problems and that is money. The railway minister
admitted his inability to recover railway lands because of the
influence of very powerful elements. Similarly the rivers and canals
are being filled up by influential people for their use.
We will now take a quick look at the law and order situation. Almost
every day one or two dead bodies are recovered from rivers and drains.
Police said to have identified the body of garment labour leader
Aminul Islam like that. The young journalist couple were murdered in
their own bedroom perhaps because they knew too much about government
corruption. A BNP leader along with his driver was hijacked from his
car never to be seen again. There are others who die in so-called
"cross-fire" (extra judicial killing). Countless people die on the
roads when a minister advocates for driving licence to be made easier.
But the present Government can be proud of some of its success. It
took no time to change the name of the Dhaka Airport to remove the
name of Zia from it. It successfully evicted Khaleda Zia from her
cantonment house. It hanged most of those responsible for 1975
changes. It brought in the constitutional changes to hold election
under the present government instead of a non-party care-taker
government. However, their claimed success of dealing with BDR revolt
is most debatable. Men in arms revolt is nothing short of sedition.
There can be no negotiation or compromise with them. Call for
surrender of arms and submit them to lawful authority. Everything else
comes after that. The elite forces of the country are maintained to
defend the country and they should have been allowed to take necessary
action to restore normalcy. The so-called political negotiation with
the mutineers resulted into a great loss for the country. One can
become a politician overnight but it takes lot of tax-payers' money,
years of training, hard work and dedication to become a colonel or
brigadier. The nation can never excuse those responsible for the
massacre.
We also suffered in the hands of the opposition when they were in
power. We do not know where is the end and where shall we go.
By F R Chowdhury
UK
E Mail : fazlu.chowdhury@btinternet.com
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=389739
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