Padma Bridge Graft
Mashiur urges media to speak of his 'innocence'
Prime minister's Economic Affairs Adviser Mashiur Rahman yesterday urged the media to say that it is not fair to keep him away from discharging the government responsibilities as he is “innocentâ€. “If you know that no evidence of corruption has been found against Mashiur Rahman, I request you to write that the newspapers who accused him made mistake, and the World Bank also made mistake. Now it is not fair to keep him away from the government and serving the country, you write it in your papers,†he told reporters when asked whether he was going to join work as no corruption evidence has been found against him. “You have said the World Bank asked me not to work. You have said I am guilty. Now if I am not guilty and you know it, you also write it.†Rahman went on leave before the WB re-engaged in the Padma bridge project on condition that all officials allegedly involved in the corruption conspiracy must go on leave. He was not on the list of high officials whom the Anti-Corruption Commission sued on December 17. Rahman talked to reporters emerging from a meeting on the proposed Ganges Barrage project in the capital's National Economic Council (NEC) auditorium. He stressed the need for implementing the Ganges Barrage and advised all concerned not to spend time on secondary work leaving the main task. He said the WB took 15-20 years to decide whether it would participate in the Bangabandhu bridge project as the construction of the bridge was supposedly to have reduced the number of migratory birds.
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