UNB, Dhaka :
Dissolving all the institutional teams, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has formed a taskforce involving its 10 officials to conduct credible probes into the graft allegations against government institutions and bring pace in its works.
“We’ve formed a special taskforce dividing it into two teams. The taskforce will work under the supervision of a Director General (Inquiry) of the Commission,” ACC chairman M Badiuzzaman told UNB. Two ACC senior officials-deputy directors Mirza Zahidul Islam and Mir Zainul Abedin Shebly-will lead the two teams,
Team-A and Team-B, respectively. In 2012, the ACC formed 11 institutional teams to conduct probes into the graft allegations surfaced in government institutions and service-oriented bodies. To check corruption and irregularities, the previous teams worked on National Board of Revenue (NBR), Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Education Engineering Department (EED), Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs), Bangladesh Roads and Transport Corporation (BRTC), Roads and Highways Department, Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED), Housing and Public Works Department, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) and Bangladesh Karmachari Kallyan Board (BKKB). All those have already been dissolved as they failed to deliver.
About the newly-formed taskforce, Badiuzzaman said if the Commission gets any graft allegation from government bodies, it will send there two or three officials of the taskforce with a particular task and they will report to the commission within a given time.
In the past, he said, the Commission’s institutional teams like on Rajuk and LGED worked for an indefinite period in conducting probes into graft allegations raised against the officials of the institutions and in the process they tactfully compromised with the graft accused. “But now they won’t be able to do so.”
He said: “The ACC officials will be given special assignments with particular timeframes and they will have to submit their reports within the timeframe after the visiting institutions.”
Asked why the ACC formed the special taskforce, the ACC chairman said since they did not get expected results from the institutional teams, the special force has been formed.
“There’re many reasons behind formation of the new taskforce. Some officials didn’t work properly because of their inertia in addition to irregularities,” he said.
As they worked for a long time on a particular institution, they may show reluctance to report against the graft suspects of the institutions, Badiuzzaman said. “I had formed a three-member team to carry out probes into the graft allegations against Rajuk officials and when I enquired about them, I didn’t find them there [in Rajuk]. I actually didn’t know where they actually were,” he added.
According to the terms of reference (ToR), the newly formed teams under the taskforce will visit the government institutions and bodies, and submit their summary reports on their visits to the Commission after examining the graft allegations.
The summary reports will be placed at the Commission’s regular meeting and if those are accepted by the meeting, inquiry officials will be appointed to conduct probes.
The Team-A comprises deputy directors Mirza Zahidul Islam and SM Rafiqul Islam, assistant directors Sheikh Abdus Salam and Debabrata Mondal, and deputy assistant director M Saidul Islam, while the Team-B deputy directors Mir Zainul Abedin Shebly and M Manzur Morshed, assistant directors Syed Ahmed and M Masudur Rahman, and deputy assistant director Rafi M Nasmus Sadat.
Dissolving all the institutional teams, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has formed a taskforce involving its 10 officials to conduct credible probes into the graft allegations against government institutions and bring pace in its works.
“We’ve formed a special taskforce dividing it into two teams. The taskforce will work under the supervision of a Director General (Inquiry) of the Commission,” ACC chairman M Badiuzzaman told UNB. Two ACC senior officials-deputy directors Mirza Zahidul Islam and Mir Zainul Abedin Shebly-will lead the two teams,
Team-A and Team-B, respectively. In 2012, the ACC formed 11 institutional teams to conduct probes into the graft allegations surfaced in government institutions and service-oriented bodies. To check corruption and irregularities, the previous teams worked on National Board of Revenue (NBR), Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Education Engineering Department (EED), Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs), Bangladesh Roads and Transport Corporation (BRTC), Roads and Highways Department, Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED), Housing and Public Works Department, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) and Bangladesh Karmachari Kallyan Board (BKKB). All those have already been dissolved as they failed to deliver.
About the newly-formed taskforce, Badiuzzaman said if the Commission gets any graft allegation from government bodies, it will send there two or three officials of the taskforce with a particular task and they will report to the commission within a given time.
In the past, he said, the Commission’s institutional teams like on Rajuk and LGED worked for an indefinite period in conducting probes into graft allegations raised against the officials of the institutions and in the process they tactfully compromised with the graft accused. “But now they won’t be able to do so.”
He said: “The ACC officials will be given special assignments with particular timeframes and they will have to submit their reports within the timeframe after the visiting institutions.”
Asked why the ACC formed the special taskforce, the ACC chairman said since they did not get expected results from the institutional teams, the special force has been formed.
“There’re many reasons behind formation of the new taskforce. Some officials didn’t work properly because of their inertia in addition to irregularities,” he said.
As they worked for a long time on a particular institution, they may show reluctance to report against the graft suspects of the institutions, Badiuzzaman said. “I had formed a three-member team to carry out probes into the graft allegations against Rajuk officials and when I enquired about them, I didn’t find them there [in Rajuk]. I actually didn’t know where they actually were,” he added.
According to the terms of reference (ToR), the newly formed teams under the taskforce will visit the government institutions and bodies, and submit their summary reports on their visits to the Commission after examining the graft allegations.
The summary reports will be placed at the Commission’s regular meeting and if those are accepted by the meeting, inquiry officials will be appointed to conduct probes.
The Team-A comprises deputy directors Mirza Zahidul Islam and SM Rafiqul Islam, assistant directors Sheikh Abdus Salam and Debabrata Mondal, and deputy assistant director M Saidul Islam, while the Team-B deputy directors Mir Zainul Abedin Shebly and M Manzur Morshed, assistant directors Syed Ahmed and M Masudur Rahman, and deputy assistant director Rafi M Nasmus Sadat.
