A group of over 200 officials and workers organized a parade demanding the resignation of the governor of the central bank, four deputy governors, advisors, and the head of the financial intelligence unit (BFIU), causing extreme instability to break out within the Bangladesh Bank.
During one part of the parade, they went onto the governor’s floor of the central bank’s main building and made all of the deputy governors sign blank signature sheets.
Four deputy governors, as well as the chief of the financial intelligence section, reportedly “resigned” from their positions and left the central bank in response to demands made by irate officials, according to witnesses.
At that point, the soldiers provided them with security.
At the time of the occurrence, Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder was not present in the office.
No political banners were being carried by the irate authorities and staff.
Witnesses added that the top Bangladesh Bank executives are accused by resentful officers and staff of being accountable for anomalies and corruption in the banking industry.
Good governance will not return to the banking sector if they remain in charge, they insisted.
The witnesses said the protesters first barged into the office of deputy governor Kazi Sayedur Rahman and put pressure on him to resign. As a result, Kazi Sayedur Rahman wrote his resignation on a blank sheet of paper and signed it and left the bank.
The disgruntled officers and employees then forced deputy governors Nurun Nahar, Md. Khurshid Alam and Md. Habibur Rahman to sign on the blank paper.
Later, the bank’s adviser Abu Farah Md. Nasser and Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit’s Masud Biswas were asked to resign.
All those top officials of the central bank were appointed on contractual basis.
The agitating officials and employees declared them persona non grata in the central bank.
The aggrieved officials and employees declared executive director-1 Zakir Hossain Chowdhury as the officer-in-charge of the central bank.
