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WB Fund Cancellation

'Real culprits' to be found out

PM tells party men in NY

BSS, New York
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government will not stop its inquiry aimed at finding out the real culprits responsible forthe cancellation ofWorld Bank funding for the Padma bridge project.
"Though the World Bank has decided to back the much-awaited Padma bridge funding, the government would continue its probe into tracking down the real culprits," she said.
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Hasina was addressing Bangladesh Awami Swechhasebak League's USA unit council 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York on Monday night.
"We will not spare those responsible for the scrapping of World Bank funding...we are determined to find out the real culprits," the premier asserted.
Hasina also told the function that she had talked to the World Bank president at a programme here and informed him about her desire.
"We welcome the decision of the World Bank. But I have told the World Bank president that I also want a full inquiry into the matter.
"I want to know why the previous funding was cancelled. I am determined to get at the real story behind the cancellation of the fund," she said.
Without mentioning any name, the premier said one individual, merely for the post of managing director of a bank, had influenced the World Bank to cancel the funding.
"I do not want to mention the name, everybody knows it. That person does not have the age to remain managing
director of the bank, but he had wanted to be there in the post," she told the function.
Hasina said the Awami League had never ever patronised any sort of corruption, and graft in the Padma bridge project was beyond imagination.
In this connection, she mentioned that the AntiCorruption Commission was running its inquiry and would finish the job. "We told the World Bank to engage their people in helping the inquiry."
Hasina said the World Bank had stopped all of their funding for the road and bridge construction in Bangladesh since 2005.
"The BNP was in power at the time, and it was done just because of their corruption," she said.
Listing various development activities of the government, the premier said the government had come to power just to serve the people and not to build its own fortuneg.
Presided over by the convenor of the Bangladesh Awami Swechhasebak League USA unit, Mahiuddin Dewan, the function was addressed, among others, by Foreign Minister Dipu Moni.