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AKM Bahauddin Bahar, a lawmaker from Comilla-6 constituency, has allegedly threatened an official of the Department of Environment (DoE) with dire consequences for preparing a damage assessment report after inspecting a hill-cutting project by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD).
Shawkat Ara Koli, deputy director of DoE Comilla office, inspected the spot in the district’s
Sadar upazila, where two contracting firms – M/S Hasan Techno Builders and M/S Haque Enterprise – were found to be leveling around 114,333 cubic feet of a hill to the ground, to expand the existing road.
Following the inspection, Awami League lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar, who is believed to have close ties with the firms, called Koli over phone on Wednesday, asking her why she had prepared the report without consulting him.
“Did you talk to me earlier about the report regarding the Lalmai road? … Why did you write against only us in the assessment report, and not against the RHD?” he was heard saying in a leaked audio clip.
After the DoE official said she had written about the RHD in the assessment report, the MP rejected her claim, saying: “I have the report right now, in which you mentioned 114,333 cubic feet of hill was cut. How did you measure this, without me?”
Furious, he kept asking the DoE official how she had measured the damage.
“How did you measure this without having my signature?” he asked her for a third time, accusing her of misusing her authority. “There is no scope of misusing power in Comilla… You have seen my good side, you have not seen my bad side yet,” shouted an outraged Bahar. As the DoE official tried to explain herself, the MP dismissed her attempt to do so as “nonsense.”
“You don’t even know what to do and how. You should have had me present during the measurement… You have so much power, right?” he told her. The clip ends with telling Koli to “come to my office in 10 minutes,” by MP Bahauddin Bahar. Bahauddin Bahar confirmed the authenticity of the clip to media on Thursday.
Admitting that he had used the term “nonsense,” against the DoE official, he said he had shouted at her because he did not like irregularities.
“If calling her nonsense is a crime, then I am a criminal,” he said. He further mentioned that he had a higher protocol than Koli’s superior official.
“What if she leaked the clip of their conversation without her boss’ consent?” Bahar asked, hinting that doing so was not only breaking with protocol, but also illegal.
AKM Bahauddin Bahar, a lawmaker from Comilla-6 constituency, has allegedly threatened an official of the Department of Environment (DoE) with dire consequences for preparing a damage assessment report after inspecting a hill-cutting project by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD).
Shawkat Ara Koli, deputy director of DoE Comilla office, inspected the spot in the district’s
Sadar upazila, where two contracting firms – M/S Hasan Techno Builders and M/S Haque Enterprise – were found to be leveling around 114,333 cubic feet of a hill to the ground, to expand the existing road.
Following the inspection, Awami League lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar, who is believed to have close ties with the firms, called Koli over phone on Wednesday, asking her why she had prepared the report without consulting him.
“Did you talk to me earlier about the report regarding the Lalmai road? … Why did you write against only us in the assessment report, and not against the RHD?” he was heard saying in a leaked audio clip.
After the DoE official said she had written about the RHD in the assessment report, the MP rejected her claim, saying: “I have the report right now, in which you mentioned 114,333 cubic feet of hill was cut. How did you measure this, without me?”
Furious, he kept asking the DoE official how she had measured the damage.
“How did you measure this without having my signature?” he asked her for a third time, accusing her of misusing her authority. “There is no scope of misusing power in Comilla… You have seen my good side, you have not seen my bad side yet,” shouted an outraged Bahar. As the DoE official tried to explain herself, the MP dismissed her attempt to do so as “nonsense.”
“You don’t even know what to do and how. You should have had me present during the measurement… You have so much power, right?” he told her. The clip ends with telling Koli to “come to my office in 10 minutes,” by MP Bahauddin Bahar. Bahauddin Bahar confirmed the authenticity of the clip to media on Thursday.
Admitting that he had used the term “nonsense,” against the DoE official, he said he had shouted at her because he did not like irregularities.
“If calling her nonsense is a crime, then I am a criminal,” he said. He further mentioned that he had a higher protocol than Koli’s superior official.
“What if she leaked the clip of their conversation without her boss’ consent?” Bahar asked, hinting that doing so was not only breaking with protocol, but also illegal.
