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Corruption costs country Tk 193,083 cr in 4 years

Dr Mohiuddin tells seminar

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Corruption in the last four years of the BNP-Jamaat alliance government has cost the country about Tk 193,083 crore, said Awami League leader Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir at a seminar yesterday.
He also alleged that the family of the prime minister is involved in misappropriating Tk 32,000 crore through corruption.
“The yearly corruption by the alliance government has exceeded more than 13 percent of the Gross National Products (GNP),” said Dr Mohiuddin, former state minister for planning, in his keynote paper.
The AL organised the seminar on 'Corruption and politicisation of the four-party coalition government' at the auditorium of the Diploma Engineers' Institute in the city.
In his keynote paper titled 'Corruption Fiesta: From 2001 to 2004', Dr Mohiuddin said the amount collected through extortion was Tk 16,500 crore and corruption in import and tender businesses was estimated at Tk 31,500 crore while Tk 24,000 crore was misappropriated in service sector.
Corruption also costs 11 other sectors Tk 89,083 crore, including Tk
17,600 crore in financial irregularities under the Annual Development Project (ADP), he added.
The AL leader said that although the prime minister had pledged to root out corruption, "she herself was engaged in corruption."
AL leader Abdul Latif Siddiqui presented another keynote paper on 'Politicisation of the four-party BNP-Jamaat alliance government'.
He said the government has politicised all the public universities, the Public Service Commission (PSC), judiciary, Election Commission and all the administrative sectors.
He called on the professionals to join hands with the political leaders to put an end to politicisation.
Addressing the seminar as chief guest, senior AL leader Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury said, “Corruption has been legalised, nationalised and decentralised under the present government.”
He called on the AL leaders to publish thousands of posters on the alliance government's corruption and distribute those to rural areas.
Tofail Ahmed, former industry minister, said politicisation has pushed the country to the verge of disaster as the alliance government
has removed a large number of efficient staffs from all sectors, including the police administration.
The Public Service Commission now appoints those who are on the list given by the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of the ruling BNP, he alleged.
Tofail, a front AL leader, said even Shibir men have been appointed in different universities, including Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, on political grounds.
He also said the BNP leaders have occupied all khas lands in the name of setting up CNG filling stations and other purposes.
Motia Chowdhury, former agriculture minister, termed the government oppressive. “When we were in power, we made the country self-sufficient in food,” she said.
AL acting General Secretary Obaidul Quader said the coalition government could not even fulfil four of their election pledges in its four-year rule.
Former vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University Prof Abdul Bayes said the administration has broken down due to widespread corruption in every sector and politicisation.