Release of Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami

Chief Adviser
Caretaker Govt. of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh
Dhaka
Bangladesh

Sub: Release of Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh

Sir,

We, the citizens of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh demand for release Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami.
Global Agro Trade Company (GATCO) was appointed as a contractor for the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Kamalapur in Dhaka city and the Chittagong Port Container Terminal by abusing power and it has caused a loss of over Tk 1000 crore to the public exchequer. This was all that could be said by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) deputy director Golam Shahriar Chowdhury when he filed the case with Tejgaon police station against Khaleda Zia, Coco and 11 others on September 2, 2007.

If we analyze the case filed by ACC and the final report after investigation we will see that there are serious weaknesses in the case. Firstly in the case, it was stated that the decision of the purchase committee incurred a loss of a dubious amount Tk 1000 crore to the public exchequer but the final report after the investigation has invalidated this accusation as it is now Tk 14,56,37,616.92 only. Secondly, several former bureaucrats and ministry high officials including former cabinet secretary Dr. Saadat Hussain, former joint chief of shipping ministry Khandaker Khaliquzzaman, former deputy secretary Abdul Matin, former deputy chief Jayonto Kumar Nandi, former joint chief of planning ministry Abdul Matin, CPA Director Kazi Abdul Momen, and GATCO Chief Accountant Mosharraf Hossain were included in the First Information Report (FIR) but they have been mysteriously dropped from the charge sheet. Most importantly, former cabinet secretary Dr. Saadat Hussain (Now PSC chairman appointed by your Govt.) was the member secretary of the purchase committee. Even his name is missing in the charge sheet. Unfortunately, they have been dropped and replaced by eight top ranked ministers of the four party alliance govt. only because they were in the purchase committee They are former finance minister M. Saifur Rahman, former LGRD minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, former health minister Dr. Khandakar Mosharraf, former land minister M. Shamsul Islam, former agriculture minister MK Anwar, former commerce minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, and former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain and Former industries minister Motiur Rahman Nizami.

So if the membership in the committee is the sole reason for being accused, how can the member secretary be exempted from the list of the accused? Does it not indicate that a particular group of people are targeted by the authority for a particular purpose?
During his 20 months as agriculture minister and 40 months as industries minister no one was able to raise any allegation of corruption or irregularities in his ministry.

We undersigned urge and request Your Excellency to take necessary steps to release Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami.