A NATIONAL English daily on Tuesday reported that Munshiganj police on Monday detained a fake magistrate who introduced himself as a judicial magistrate before the first joint district judge Abul Kashem and tried to get a favour in connection with a case. This is surprisingly a new type of fake entity after fake freedom fighters, fake police, fake RAB personnel, and army men while millions of people in Bangladesh are continuing with adulterated and chemically contaminated food, fake drugs, fake textbooks, forged cosmetics, counterfeited currency notes, fake degree certificates, fake freedom fighters’ certificate, and all pervasive corruption.
Bangladesh, the country with the most potential is still lagging behind after the 43 years of its independence despite the 160 million people who are nurturing their hopes of a developed, democratic, pluralistic and peaceful society. The moral bankruptcy of a section of people feeds the mass a faded and fake dream of future. As ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’, the country is now suffering a systematic period of corruption, according to educationists.
The society is more elastic in accepting the dishonest people in every affair, thus the corrupt exist in politics and administration, the greedy and mountebanks exist in business to cheat people. The social resistance against immorality, dishonesty, corruption is not working now. Everybody now knows the shortcut way of having jobs and working in government offices, and getting undue privileges from top-brass and also from law enforcers. The classical values of family and society are evaporating due to a lack of moral education, the influence of seductive cultures, and paradoxical stands of civil society’s personnel, immoral social and political leaders, greedy businesses, a politicized judiciary, and indifference of knowledgeable persons to the ongoing lawlessness. The society is standing at the edge of collapse.
It is time worthy to think the way to get back to the classical values of family, society and religions with the cumulative economic and technological progress. As the rules of law, democracy, human rights and secularity are the guiding principles of the Constitution, but the principles are absent in our everyday life and governance. Moral education and feelings of accountability could frame our mind not to be corrupted with the maintenance of law and order properly, along with a culture of accountability and rules of law.
