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JU Correspondent
A former teacher sacked from Jahangirnagar University (JU) has filed an allegation against Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Nurul Alam and four former VCs of the university.
He lodged a complaint to the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) alleging various irregularities and corruption.
Former faculty of the Botany Department of the University, Muhammad Ali Akand Mamun, has briefed in an online press conference on Saturday (November 5, 2022). Journalists from various print and online media were present and connected from Jahangirnagar University Journalists’ Association’s office.
Mohammad Ali Akand Mamun said in the press conference, “I have submitted a six-page complaint to the Chairman of the ACC with the evidence of corruption on November 1, 2022. I have brought allegation against Prof Farzana Islam, Prof Sharif Enamul Kabir, Prof Khandkar Mustahidur Rahman, Prof Abdul Bayes, and the current Vice-Chancellor Prof Md Nurul Alam.
He said that during the tenure of the last four vice-chancellors, incidents like recruitment trade, admission fraud, leakage of question papers, irregularities and financial corruption, the purchase of equipment, and manipulation of examination results have occurred. Apart from this, during the tenure of Professor Farzana Islam, massive irregularities took place in the ongoing development projects totaling more than Taka 1445 crore at the university. Meanwhile, the current vice-chancellor was assigned by university authority to investigate the administrative irregularities and corruption in the university from 2001 to 2009, but he did not do it.
Earlier, he was dismissed from the university in August 2014 for violating the code of conduct. Asking about his dismissal, he said, “For speaking out against corruption and irregularities, I was punished in a conspiratorial manner.”
When asked about the complaint, the Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof Md. Nurul Alam said, “I can not remember the incident of 2009 at this moment.” Apart from this, despite several attempts, former Vice-Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam did not pick up the phone.