BTTB cell-phone

By S A Mansoor, Gulshan, Dhaka
23 April 2004, 18:00 PM
Mr. A. S. Khan's article on the subject (DS: 19th April) is a factual summery of the weakness and lack of transparency in governance.

The Hon. Minister's statement that BTTB has its own way of addressing such issues when referring to claim of alleged forgery of the Chinese offer is ample evidence of lack of transparency. He also stated that he did not receive the cabinet bodies' decision number 23 of meeting held on January 24. This was a transparent case of lack of governance and its efficiency. Even BTTB's finance member's note of dissent was not referred to.

Hopefully the PM's Secretariat will visualise the case in an objective manner and may be the Hon. Prime Minister will stop this chain of nonevents. Or is it a case of "quid pro quo", given the firm statement of Chinese Ambassador who categorically dismissed the FBCCI chief's comment about the Taiwanese office in Dhaka ( DS: 19th April)?

Poor pro bono publico he is left between the "devil and the deep blue sea" trying to find the shred of fact amidst all the fiction.