The district administration of Narayanganj has compensated sixty thousand taka cash to the old man which was earlier spent to distribute relief goods forcibly to the hundred peoples.
A sixty years old man Farid Ahmed due to insolvency in Covid pandemic period had been made a call to the government rapid food relief service at 333. After that an investigation team of Narayanganj Sadar upazila Nirbahi Officer Arifa Zohura and Narayanganj Sadar Assistant Commissioner (land) Hasan Bin Mohammad Ali with the help of local union council member Iyub Ali rushed to the spot of the caller house on Thursday last.
The old man Farid Ahmed has a wife, university goers, a son and a daughter and a physically challenged son. His other daughter is married and university studies maintains her educational expenses through the tuition. Farid Ahmed is only the income holder of the family but he has been hit twice with the disease of brain stroke, family sources claimed.
Farid Ahmed is an inhabitant at the Nagbari village under Kashipur union council of Narayanganj Sadar upazila in the district.
The UNO and the AC Land reached at Farid Ahmed house on Thursday and found he lived in a three story building. Then they assumed Farid Ahmed is a solvent man and he made an unnecessary call to the government rapid food relief call center. Then they passed an order for his unnecessary call and harassed the government officials to distribute food relief goods among the hundred destitute peoples and accordingly it was done on Saturday last in presence of UNO Arifa Zohura.
Family members of the old man told the media that Farid Ahmed was puzzled when UNO and AC Land rushed to his house and made different queries. He didn’t deliver a proper answer and was unable to disclose his poverty so the administration had to make Farid Ahmed distribute relief among the poor peoples.
The family members of the old man and he himself told the media that he is basically poor and he has to distribute the relief according to the UNO’s order of collecting sixty thousand taka as loan from other people. They branded this punishment as illegal.
The reality is that the old man has been living on the last floor of a three story building that belongs to six brothers and a sister. He has no sufficient income source to maintain his family. In spite of having his ailments the old man has to work in a local hosiery factory. Deputy Commissioner of Narayanganj Mustain Billah told the Bangladesh Post that the incident occurred due to misconception so that we refunded the old man’s spent money.
District administration had formed a three members probe body headed by ADC General to investigate the matter and will have to submit a report on 26 May.
The SadarupazilaNirbahi officer ArifaZohura and AC Land Hasan bin Mohammad Ali none receive the phone call in spite of several attempts to know about this fact.
When ADC General ShamimBepari over the cell phone about the beginning of conducting the investigation he replied “I do not agree to say on this matter, I will submit a report to DC and then you will be informed”.
