UNB, Dhaka :
Eminent educationist Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed on Monday said the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) must be desperate to deal with corrupt people as they are shameless and audacious.
“If you don’t do so, it’ll be very difficult to defeat them (corrupt people)…corruption is disgraceful for the whole nation,” he told a discussion at Shilpakala Academy auditorium in the capital.
The national anti-graft agency arranged the discussion marking its 12th founding anniversary.
Abu Sayeed said, corruption has destroyed the values of the nation and broken its backbone shattering the aspirations of all. “Corruption is
like looting and it’s the destroyer of social balance,” he said.
The educationist said the Commission should also have its own prosecution unit apart from forming an arms unit applying the Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2004 to fight the social menace effectively.
He stressed the need for creating a social movement against corruption to make the country a prosperous one.
ACC chairman Iqbal Mahmood said the Commission has some internal problems like institutional weakness, but it has already brought some systematic changes to overcome the limitations.
He observed that Bangladesh has already achieved a marked progress in socioeconomic and political arena, but corruption is still a key impediment to its sustainable development.
ACC commissioners Dr Nasiruddin Ahmed and AFM Aminul Islam, its secretary Abu M Mustafa Kamal, director general Dr Md Shamsul Arefin and directors Mohammad Monir Chowdhury, Farid Ahmed Bhuiyan and Md Nur Ahmad, among others, spoke at the meeting.
Eminent educationist Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed on Monday said the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) must be desperate to deal with corrupt people as they are shameless and audacious.
“If you don’t do so, it’ll be very difficult to defeat them (corrupt people)…corruption is disgraceful for the whole nation,” he told a discussion at Shilpakala Academy auditorium in the capital.
The national anti-graft agency arranged the discussion marking its 12th founding anniversary.
Abu Sayeed said, corruption has destroyed the values of the nation and broken its backbone shattering the aspirations of all. “Corruption is
like looting and it’s the destroyer of social balance,” he said.
The educationist said the Commission should also have its own prosecution unit apart from forming an arms unit applying the Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2004 to fight the social menace effectively.
He stressed the need for creating a social movement against corruption to make the country a prosperous one.
ACC chairman Iqbal Mahmood said the Commission has some internal problems like institutional weakness, but it has already brought some systematic changes to overcome the limitations.
He observed that Bangladesh has already achieved a marked progress in socioeconomic and political arena, but corruption is still a key impediment to its sustainable development.
ACC commissioners Dr Nasiruddin Ahmed and AFM Aminul Islam, its secretary Abu M Mustafa Kamal, director general Dr Md Shamsul Arefin and directors Mohammad Monir Chowdhury, Farid Ahmed Bhuiyan and Md Nur Ahmad, among others, spoke at the meeting.
