Anti-Corruption Commission a puppet organisation government puppet: BNP leader Moudud Ahmed,Bangladesh

BANGLADESH NEWS

Terming the Anti-Corruption Commission a puppet organisation of the government, BNP leader Moudud Ahmed on Saturday renewed his allegation that the anti-graft body is working to implement the political agenda of the Awami League-led grand alliance regime.

“The government is using the ACC alongside the police as a means to subdue the opposition. The ACC is now busier harassing opposition leaders than finding out the real corrupt,” he said.

The BNP standing committee member came up with the allegation at a discussion titled ‘The Role of the Government and ACC in Curbing Corruption and People’s Expectation’.

Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Dal organised the programme at the National Press Club in the capital.

Moudud said the government and the ACC are playing the similar role in repressing the opposition. “The ACC is giving this corrupt government a clean certificate and harassing the opposition leaders implicating them in false allegations and reviving the false cases against them.”

Mentioning that the ACC nurtures a ‘slavish mentality’, the former law minister said if any organisation that works with such a mentality is unlikely to be able to work independently.

“We had formed the ACC with high hopes that it would work independently, but the organisation has failed to do so,” he said.

Moudud said the ACC could have proved its neutrality by taking action against those who were involved in corruption in quick-rental power plants, share markets and Padma bridge.

Claiming that the government has made Ilias Ali disappeared to hush up former railways minister Suranjit Sengupta’s corruption, the BNP leader said they are now in apprehension that the government may make another popular opposition leader disappeared to cover up its Padma bridge corruption.

Turning to the Padma bridge issue, Moudud termed impractical the government’s plan to build the multipurpose bridge with own funds.

Moudud once again suggested the government taking acting against those charged with corruption by the World Bank for paving the way for reviving the deal.