Editorial Desk :
On July 10, the Anti-Corruption Commission announced that it had initiated probe against several elite figures, including 10-15 ruling party lawmakers and ministers, for their alleged involvement in large-scale financial corruption.
ACC Chairman Iqbal Mahmood at that time also said series of investigations was underway against 27 other political men. Apart from some businessmen-cum-politicians, 15 public servants from secretary to joint secretary levels were also under the scanner. However the chairman did not disclose the name or level of the ruling party men and the civil servants.
The aforesaid initiative is not going to be materialised during the present government, to be sure. The present government is more interested in loyalty and without knowing one’s background he is welcome. It is quite clear that the present politics cannot be an attraction for honest people. Such a government has to encourage wrong people into their fold. The popular base is missing from politics.
The reality is – it is not unknown to anybody that looting public money has become politics for the many. This could become so for the force of bureaucratic thinking in politics.
The competition for corruption is such that the police also have politicised the police and so they have now become part of corruption establishment. There is no way of saving the police from lying for the government as police cases are openly used for political victimisation. Some of them say that they are helpless.
But it should not be so easily acceptable because they are our people. We cannot all give up our conscience while the government is helpless.
Today we are not interested in discussing corruption simple as an offence to be punished. It hurts everybody to see that Bangabandhu’s name is used widely by famously known corrupt ones believing that praising Bangabandhu is a protection for their corruption. Those who were once contemptuous of Bangabandhu now write articles in newspapers to praise him high or speak highly of him publicly only to get fresh favours from the government or hoping to be protected by the government for his ill-gotten wealth.
It is known that corruption is the power base of the government otherwise the government would not have made them so dependent on police power and police ways for solving rising problems in the country. For every complicated problem the government has police for solution. It is no political way of thinking. It should have been impossible for defying popular vote to deny itself the strong popular base.
Nothing will improve the weakness of the government so enmeshed in corruption and police power. The end of corruption will mean the end of the government. So we are not expecting the government to be anti-corruption.
But it is too much to see using Bangabandhu’s name as dedicated followers of his ideology and fearlessly doing corruption, plundering the country, grabbing other people’s property. All this while shamelessly praising Bangabandhu without knowing how honest he was personally and how vocal he was against corruption within his own party.
Adulation by them of Bangabandhu is a threat to silence others about their corruption and misdeeds. We earnestly urge the government to stop using Bangabandhu’s name to advance activities of corruption. Bangabandhu should be saved from publicly known corrupt ones. They even did not know him.
On July 10, the Anti-Corruption Commission announced that it had initiated probe against several elite figures, including 10-15 ruling party lawmakers and ministers, for their alleged involvement in large-scale financial corruption.
ACC Chairman Iqbal Mahmood at that time also said series of investigations was underway against 27 other political men. Apart from some businessmen-cum-politicians, 15 public servants from secretary to joint secretary levels were also under the scanner. However the chairman did not disclose the name or level of the ruling party men and the civil servants.
The aforesaid initiative is not going to be materialised during the present government, to be sure. The present government is more interested in loyalty and without knowing one’s background he is welcome. It is quite clear that the present politics cannot be an attraction for honest people. Such a government has to encourage wrong people into their fold. The popular base is missing from politics.
The reality is – it is not unknown to anybody that looting public money has become politics for the many. This could become so for the force of bureaucratic thinking in politics.
The competition for corruption is such that the police also have politicised the police and so they have now become part of corruption establishment. There is no way of saving the police from lying for the government as police cases are openly used for political victimisation. Some of them say that they are helpless.
But it should not be so easily acceptable because they are our people. We cannot all give up our conscience while the government is helpless.
Today we are not interested in discussing corruption simple as an offence to be punished. It hurts everybody to see that Bangabandhu’s name is used widely by famously known corrupt ones believing that praising Bangabandhu is a protection for their corruption. Those who were once contemptuous of Bangabandhu now write articles in newspapers to praise him high or speak highly of him publicly only to get fresh favours from the government or hoping to be protected by the government for his ill-gotten wealth.
It is known that corruption is the power base of the government otherwise the government would not have made them so dependent on police power and police ways for solving rising problems in the country. For every complicated problem the government has police for solution. It is no political way of thinking. It should have been impossible for defying popular vote to deny itself the strong popular base.
Nothing will improve the weakness of the government so enmeshed in corruption and police power. The end of corruption will mean the end of the government. So we are not expecting the government to be anti-corruption.
But it is too much to see using Bangabandhu’s name as dedicated followers of his ideology and fearlessly doing corruption, plundering the country, grabbing other people’s property. All this while shamelessly praising Bangabandhu without knowing how honest he was personally and how vocal he was against corruption within his own party.
Adulation by them of Bangabandhu is a threat to silence others about their corruption and misdeeds. We earnestly urge the government to stop using Bangabandhu’s name to advance activities of corruption. Bangabandhu should be saved from publicly known corrupt ones. They even did not know him.
