Efforts on to turn corruption much riskier, less remunerative: ACC chief

FE Team | Published: December 13, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

NARSINGDI, Dec 12 (UNB): The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) is striving relentlessly to turn corruption much riskier and less remunerative than before to curb people's propensity to commit crime.
ACC Chairman Lieutenant General (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury said this today (Wednesday) while exchanging views with different professionals of the district at the district Shilpakala Academy Hall in the morning.
"In the past, corruption was more remunerative and less risky in the country, which induced people to commit crime on a large scale. But we are trying to make it more risky than remunerative," he said, as a country-wide drive of the current interim period against serious crime and corruption continues.
Meanwhile, many big shots in society, including top politicians, business tycoons and bureaucrats, have run the risk of getting their fortunes and future ruined under the crackdown on the suspected corrupt.
Narsingdi district administration organised the meeting as part of a cross-country campaign against corruption.
Hasan Mashhud painted a perilous picture of the past socio-political milieu wherein, he said, people had lost social values and also the sense of judging what was good and what was bad. And this labyrinth generated "pervasive corruption" in the country.
He also called upon the helmsmen of all the institutions of the country for setting an example of honesty through maintaining transparency in their function and conduct.
Chaired by Deputy Comm-issioner Jillar Rahman, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by ACC Director General Abu Taleb Mia, Superintendent of Police Shahabuddin, civil surgeon Dr Dhirendranath Singh and Narsingdi Government College Principal Professor Mohammad Ali.
The ACC chairman also visited Narayanganj in the afternoon and exchanged views on the anti-corruption drive at Shaheed Zia Hall.
The anti-corruption watchdog boss called upon the common man to wage a social movement to build up a corruption-free country. "And ACC will help you in such a movement," he told the audience.
Later, he exchanged views with people of various professions where he trounced high-society people for this vice, saying, "The affluent section is more corrupt than the lower order of the society."
Among others, Deputy Commissioner Faizul Kabir, Superintendent of Police Sibgatullah, Narayanganj Municipality Chairman Dr Selina Hayat Ivy and Press Club President Ruman Reza were present at the meeting.