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ACC caught in rift

Mian questions legitimacy of decisions

Zayadul Ahsan and Julfikar Au Manik
Internal discord between the members of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has taken a serious turn as one of its three members has questioned a few decisions of the commission.
Prof M Maniruzzaman Mian yesterday in a 'confidential letter' to ACC .Chairman lustice Sultan Hossain Khan put up his suggestions about how the commission should run properly.
In the letter, he pointed out a number of decisions and steps the commission has taken since its
formation on November 21 last year, saying those decisions 'were not taken in a proper way’.
Sources said Mian sent the letter through his personal staff and left the office in the afternoon. The chairman after receiving the letter convened a commission meeting at 11:00am today to discuss the matter.
But Prof Mian, when contacted, declined to comment on the issue.
Meantime, the complexities over the status of the staff of now-defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption (Bac) have multiplied with the law ministry's latest views on the ACC Act
The ministry sent a letter to the commission through Cabinet
Division yesterday, saying the attorney general's legal interpretation on December 15 that the ACC Act allows Bac officers and employees to work with the ACC from the day Bac was dissolved was not correct.
Sources said Mian earlier cautioned against working in Une with the attorney general's interpretation but the chairman and the other commissioner, Maniruddin Ahmed, did not pay heed to his suggestion.
In his letter, Mian, a former vicechancellor of Dhaka University, said all the decisions and steps should be taken in consultation with all commission members at formal meetings.
X nX? , I <, . .■ : — oped among the members as Prof Mian had differed with the chairman and the other commissioner on many issues.
Mian prefers to do the commission's job in line with the law cautiously, but his colleagues took a few hasty steps which, Mian thinks, do not go in conformity with thelaw.
The chairman took many steps without consulting Prof Mian, who came to know the decisions from newspaperreports,thesourcessaid.
They said Mian reacted angrily when became to know about the ACC letter to 13 secretaries on the 'missing motor vehicles' which was sent without informing or consultinghlm.
Mian, who joined the commission three weeks after its formation, when the two other members already locked in dispute over employing the Bac staff and the appointment of Bac director general (DG) MA Matin as ACC's DG and actingsecretary.
Mian opposed the moves saying those cannot be made before finalisation of the ACC organogram and rules and regulation. As he raised the issues several times, the chairman sought the attorney general's opinion on these.
Sources said the chairman even did not comply with the rules of business that say he has to seek attorney general's opinion, if he needs any. through the Cabinet Division.
The Cabinet Division pointed out several times that the Bac staff do not belong to the commission and Matin's appointment was not made properly, but the commission did not payheerl
When the cabinet secretary sat with the ACC members on Saturday to discuss the issue. Justice Sui tan did not comment on the interpretations of the Cabinet Division and the attorney general.
The following day Maniruddin Ahmed sent a proposal to Mian, who is responsible for administration and establishment of the ACC, for appointment of former Bac staff to 40 posts.
But Mian did not agree and halted the proposal. He rathersenta letter to the government for approval of the appointment of 15 personal staff.
Cabinet Secretary Saadat Hussain at Saturday's meeting suggested hiring some Bac officials on a temporary basis to carry out the urgent tasks. Although the chairman and Maniruddin agreed, Mian opposed the suggestion, saying a temporary hiring of some Bac staff would be a violation of law.
Mian pointed out on several occasions that working with the Bac staff without scrutiny would be violation of law. He said the commission may work with government officers, who worked in the Bac on deputation, so that they might go back to their office in case any problem arises.
Mian earlier said the commission, In its first move, should have appointed a legal expert. But die chairman has appointed a part time legal expert recently without informing Mian about it.
After getting the law ministry letter yesterday, this legal expert also told the commission that it cannot work with the Bac staff.
-• J differed with the chalr-man ahd Wanifuddiri over the issue ofACCorganogram.
I Ie framed an organogram outlining nearly 900 positions across the country while former Bac officials submitted to the ACC an organogram with about l,746staff.
Mian believes his organogram is Sood enough while the chairman and re other commissioner declined to accept Mian's proposal, that resulted in delay in formulating the organogram.
The only issue Mian and two other ACC members agreed was that the government appointment of Reza-e-Rabbi as ACC secretary was wrong.