Make Prof Yunus Grameen Bank chairman, speakers urge govt
Friends and fellows of Prof Muhammad Yunus here at a view exchange meeting yesterday demanded the Nobel winner's return to Grameen Bank as its chairman.
Kiuci Kawahito, professor emeritus of US's Middle Tennessee University (MTU), who presented the keynote paper, said they were course mate in MTU when Yunus was doing his PhD. Later Yunus joined MTU as a regular faculty member, he added.
Chittagong University and MTU are the two institutions where Prof Yunus has taught as a regular faculty member, said Kawahito, an American professor of Japanese origin.
"So far as I know him he has the sense of justice, honesty, fairness, and humanity".
"Life and philosophy of Prof Yunus" is now being taught as an academic subject in MTU, he added. "I am very proud to be a colleague of Prof Yunus 40 years ago."
Prof Yunus founded a "new concept of business", that is social business, and he can be awarded with the Noble prize for the second time for this new idea, said Kawahito.
He opined that Prof Yunus should be brought back to Grameen Bank for the sake of the bank.
Former vice-chancellor of CU Prof Dr Alamgir Muhammad Sirajuddin said Yunus should be brought back in Grameen Bank as the chairman.
"...we want him in this position for our interest and for the interest of the bank".
Poet and journalist Abu Momen said Yunus always searched for ways to serve the country and its people and that is why he switched his profession from teaching to GB.
He demanded Prof Yunus' return to Grameen Bank as the chairman.
CU's Prof Dr Mahfuzul Huq Chowdhury and Eng Sultan Mahmud echoed the demand.
Eng Sultan said Yunus and Grameen Bank cannot be isolated from each other as the relationship between the two is like that of a father and a child.
Prof Dr Sikander Khan, Prof Dr Irshad Kamal Khan, Adv Salehuddin Haider Siddiquee and Prof Rowshan Ara Hanif were present, among others, in the meeting.
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