Turag eviction drive

WEDNESDAY'S drive by the Bangladesh Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) to evict illegal occupiers of Turag's foreshore in Gaziour ended in a fiasco.  It should not surprise anyone, since from the very beginning, the eviction operation lacked the seriousness it deserved.
How can one even imagine of carrying out a such massive drive without adequate manpower, equipment, necessary planning and coordination among the government agencies concerned? To think that there was only one excavator to dig a huge quantity of earth, a small workforce and equipment to remove earth filling, demolish concrete structures as well as wooden fences and so on from some 63 illegal establishments on the river was to court a debacle. Worse still, there was neither any coordination among the  executive magistrate of Gazipur, the police and the BITA officials involved in the drive, nor were those officials able to see eye to eye with one another about the interpretation of 2009's High Court order on the eviction of the illegal structures and the police's role in this regard.   
So, what was to happen has happened.   
But why did the BIWTA officials concerned go ahead with the drive  in the first place without taking all these factors into due consideration? This is unacceptable.
With such half-hearted approach, BIWTA has not only made a farce of the entire drive, but has also sent a wrong message to the river-grabbers that it lacks the will to evict them.
The government must look into the matter; hold those responsible to account so as to avoid repetition of any such ill-conceived eviction operation in the future.