While there is no question about the integrity and honesty of Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, the way the ACC is working towards its stated goals of uprooting corruption from the country needs to be reviewed. Except the NAIKO and GATCO cases where procedural irregularities along with financial losses were taken into account, every case so far I know was filed for amassing illegal wealth or concealing information about the wealth when the ACC asked for it from an individual.
The movement of files and bureaucratic process in the secretariat ensures the involvement of more than one person in the corruption process, I am sure Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury knows it well. He declared his all out crusade against corruption. We hope he tightens screws around the noose of decision making and plugs the loopholes of government/organisational rules and regulations by taking stern actions against the decision makers and high-ups. In doing so, the ACC may also form a committee or advisory group comprising honest people having public administrative experience who will observe the cases the ACC is investigating and suggest overhauling in administrative rules and regulations and then put forward for government to implement those recommendations. It will complement the Administrative Reform Commission. We should remember that primarily it is the NBR which should look into the illegal wealth of a person.
I am sure if the ACC and the NBR demarcate their line of actions and combine their efforts in fighting corruption, it will produce better results.