The BNP has alleged corruption in the projects funded by the World Bank and urged its President Jim Yong Kim, now visiting Bangladesh, to take a look in.
The party’s Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain made the call at a discussion in Dhaka on Monday.
“There are several World Bank projects in Bangladesh. I wonder what big things are happening in these big projects. I hope the World Bank president who has come here will check the matters,” he said.
The discussion was held at the National Press Club, just a few hundred yards from Osmani Memorial Auditorium where the World Bank chief was in a programme in the afternoon.
Pro-BNP professionals’ leader Zafrullah Chowdhury said, “Mega project means mega corruption in Bangladesh. While we are holding a meeting here, the World Bank president is touring Bangladesh.
“We have not reminded him for once that the Padma Bridge project’s cost has risen from $70 billion to $320 billion. What is the problem?” the Ganashasthaya Kendra founder asked.
The ‘corrupt’ government put the World Bank away from the project and now it is ‘burdening’ the people with loans ‘in the name of financing the project itself’, Mosharraf claimed.
“I hope the World Bank president will also look into the matter,” he added.
Source: Bd news24
