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| Jailed militant on school payroll | |
| 2009-08-15 | |
[Bangla Daily Star] Teacher-turned-militant Monwar Hossain, who has been in jail since February, had no difficulty in getting his salary for the month of June as the acting headmaster of his school and a section of education officials approved his salary bill showing him present at the school.
District Education Officer (DEO) Enayet Hossain approved the bills without having the upazila education officer certifying the teachers' attendance report. Monwar, an ehsar (full-time member) of the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and a senior teacher of the school, drew his salary for the month of June through a bearer cheque on August 4. Rapid Action Battalion arrested Monwar at a remote char of the Teesta on February 20 this year. He was initially kept in Nilphamari jail and later shifted to Rangpur jail on June 11. The JMB operative confessed to having training in firearms including sophisticated AK47 rifle. Acting headmaster Tofaelur Rahman submitted the salary bills of the teachers and employees of the school to the DEO on August 2. The DEO forwarded it to the bank the same day although the teachers' attendance report was not certified by the upazila education officer. Documents show that Jaldhaka Upazila Education Officer Azemul Haque certified the attendance report on August 3. When contacted, Azemul told The Daily Star that he signed the report on verbal orders of the DEO. While talking to The Daily Star, DEO Enayet Hossain held the acting headmaster responsible for any mistake in preparing the bills. He, however, could not answer what prompted him to approve the salary bills without having the upazila education officer's certification. The office of the school's headmaster was found closed during repeated visits on Sunday and Monday. When contacted over the phone, acting headmaster Tofaelur Rahman denied outright his involvement in the whole process but failed to explain how all this happened. Jaldhaka Upazila Nirbahi Officer Shahidul Islam Bhuiyan said this kind of activities would be dealt with seriously. "Primarily, we think that both the acting headmaster and the district education officer are responsible for the incident. I have sought explanation from the acting headmaster," he said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 True, Redneck Jim, but what's your birthdate? Mine's in September, so I get the count wrong for the first nine months and seven days. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-15 22:53 |
| #4 DUH, a brain fart forshure, since I was born in 1947. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-15 18:17 |
| #3 umm 1947 was 62 years ago... |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-08-15 14:38 |
| #2 The rifle does, however, what it was designed to do -- operate anywhere, any time, under just about any conditions. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-08-15 13:24 |
| #1 including sophisticated AK47 rifle I suppose to an ignorant the AK47 is "Sophisticated. I'll note the name is AK for Andre Kalishnikof, and the 47 is that it was invented In 1947 some 52 years ago.(And long since surpassed)It's frankly as UNsophisticated as he could make it. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-15 11:45 |