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Our Correspondent, Barisal

According to the investigation report of the ministry of local government appointments of 121 staffs and employees of Barisal City Corporation has been declared as void and files of other three officials asked to send to the ministry for further investigation.

Awlad Hossain Dilu, ward commissioner in charge of Mayor and Mehdi Hassan, chief executive officer of BCC acknowledging the facts said a letter signed by Delwar Hossain, senior assistant secretary of the ministry, had been reached before Eid vacation and BCC officially filed it on Wednesday.

Decisions in this regard would be followed according to the rules, regulations and instructions of the ministry, they added. In that letter it was stated that appointments of those 124 staffs, employees and officials of BCC were processed by Mayor Majibor Rahman Sarwar, from August 2003 up to August 2006 after he was elected as BCC Mayor in March 2003. The appointments were made without any organogram and manpower structure and also without any approval of the local government ministry or following any legal procedure. After declaration of emergency in the country allegations against those appointments in lieu of money, nepotism and political biasness were raised and local government ministry forming a one member inquiry team ordered Omar Faruk, additional divisional commissioner of Barisal to investigate the matter.

The investigation report was submitted to the ministry at the end July and the ministry after reviewing the report decided to cancel the appointments of 121 out of 124 appointments of those staffs and employees of BCC.