ACC's continuing travails

We are sorry to note that the Commission has not been able to live up to the sense of optimism that ac-companied its birth with the very onerous task of ad-dressing the issue of corruption in Bangladesh that has caused us to top the list of most corrupt countries in the world five years on the trot, and there is a sense of dis-may amongst those that wish to see the country rid of the most serous impediment to our progress. As it is, the ACC has very little to show by way of any tangible output except perhaps for unearthing a case of 92 crore Taka tax evasion at Benapole land port customs almost six months ago. And getting tangled in as many as 78 litigations may leave hardly any time for the Commis-sion to address the main issue that it has been en-trusted with.

What is exasperating is the fact that it is the absence of an organogram of the Commission with specified posts and defined rules of procedure that are the major grounds of most of the litigations against it, while a good number of stay orders have stemmed from the ACC using investigation report of the now defunct Bu-reau of Anti-corruption. We fail to see why after so many months the Commission has not been able to finalise an organisational setup. Why there is no har-mony of thoughts in the ACC, which has hampered its work?

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The government cannot avoid its responsibility of the current state of affairs in the ACC and as days go by our comments not very long ago in this column that unless corrective actions were taken immediately the ACC might turn out to be a thalidomide baby, may well come to be true.