Shutting down TIB won’t be right: ACC chairman
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman M Badiuzzaman said on Sunday that shutting down Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) would not be right.
The ACC chairman was talking to newsmen on Sunday morning while inaugurating a programme marking the ACC’s 11th founding anniversary.
Responding to a question, Badiuzzaman said, “I won’t comment on what has been discussed about TIB in the national parliament.”
However, talking about the parliamentary standing committee’s recommendation seeking cancellation of TIB’s registration, the ACC chairman said, “Some of TIB’s activities are objectionable. However, as they [TIB] conduct various kinds of activities across the world, the organisation should not be shut down here.”
Earlier on 18 November, the parliamentary standing committee on the law ministry recommended cancellation of TIB’s registration for its “derogatory remarks against parliament.”
“The standing committee has recommended the NGO bureau cancel TIB’s registration,” said the committee’s chairman Suranjit Sengupta at a media briefing in the parliament complex.