Bangladesh’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus began not committing to prioritizing corruption during his tenure for less than seven months. This has attracted serious concern about his commitment to the cause of anti-corruption.
Muhammad Yunus, head of the Bangladesh interim government (Photo/Reuters)
Bangladesh’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus began not committing to prioritizing corruption during his tenure for less than seven months. This has attracted serious concern about his commitment to the cause of anti-corruption.
Since the Bangladesh Provisional Government controls the Eurasian commentary on August 8, Anjuman A Islam has published in the Eurasian commentary, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus vows to root corruption in the top priority of corruption. He declared his mission to rebuild Bangladesh with a focus on eliminating abuse of state power and in a new era of accountability. Despite Yunus and his advisers making their initial statements about the world, they are still accused of engaging in practices that contradict the values ​​they promised to stick to.
Anjuman stressed that a recent report from a Bangladesh newspaper showed that several Yunus’ consultants have been using multiple vehicles for public services, diverting them for personal use, and violating the rule that each consultant only allows one vehicle. This abuse of taxpayer-funded resources has sparked outrage, especially in Yunus’ commitment to transparency and accountability.
He further said: “It is shocking that all Yunus’s consultants and offices tried to be seriously abused by consultants under the carpet until the newspaper broke the huge violation, the executive director of Transparent International Bangladesh Iftekharuzzaman said Transparent violation was a huge violation.”
This blatant abuse of state power by his advisers further undermined Yunus’ portrayal of the Awami League as the only source of corruption in the country. In stark contrast to his anti-corruption rhetoric, Yunus also faces quick approval from large commercial enterprises that he and his colleagues contacted. Anjuman mentioned in his article that within just two months of taking over his power, his microfinance agency Grameen Bank was granted a five-year tax exemption, and other businesses associated with Yunus or his family received swift government approval.
Such approval overturned a previous High Court ruling, thus eliminating Yunus’ Grameen Kalyan organization with a staggering BDT of 6.66 billion tax. In addition, a private university, Gralemen University, has been approved to benefit Yunus’ inner circle. Meanwhile, labor rights activists, anti-corruption activists and lawyers expressed concern about Yunus’s quick acquittal of acquittals filed for a lawsuit filed by a formerly responsible organization.
The cases were filed before August 5 and were quickly dismissed without public explanation, creating further doubts about the integrity of the Yunus government, as cited in the Eurasian Review article. Originally an ambitious reform agenda, driven by Bangladesh’s commitment to corruption-free, it now has the potential to become a scandalous government.
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