M.A. Kader-Asian Tribune Correspondent in Bangladesh
Dhaka, 01 May,l (Asiantribune.com): Bangladesh government on Thursday named former bureaucrat Golam Rahman as the new chairman of Anticorruption Commission.
Weeks after Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury resigned on personal grounds the government named the new boss of ACC.
Rahman, a former Pakistan Civil Service officer who served as commerce secretary and secretary to PMO, is the third head of the Commission since it was created nearly four and a half years ago.
Rahman was made chairman of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission years after he ended his regular civil service career as a secretary. He started his career as a teacher and taught economics at Dhaka University in the late 1960s.
The establishment ministry later in the day published a notification on his appointment with the cabinet secretary Abdul Aziz's signature dated April 29.
The notification said the appointment of Golam Rahman will come into effect from May 2. Rahman will be enjoying status and facilities of an Appellate Division judge, it said.
Sultan Hossain Khan, a retired High Court judge, was the first chairman of ACC, created on Nov 21, 2004. The 2007-08 the military-backed caretaker government under the state of emergency replaced him with Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury in early 2007.
Chowdhury quit on April 2, saying the antigraft watchdog needed a new leadership to bring swiftness to its work.
He was appointed on Feb 22 by the Fakhruddin Ahmed-led army-installed caretaker government after resigning as an adviser to the caretaker government led by president Iajuddin Ahmed.
Chowdhury led the anti-graft body in its drive against top political figures, including AL president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP chairperson um former prime minister Khaleda Zia, businessmen and civil servants.
MPs from the ruling Awami League and opposition BNP have since demanded his resignation.
In the opening session of the ninth parliament, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Feb. 4 told parliament that the ACC should be "reconstituted" to ensure its own accountability.
The prime minister had said that the antigraft drive during the caretaker government's two-year tenure became an "anti-politician drive."
-Asian Tribune-
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