No clue why I was sent on retirement: Ex-info secretary

Former Information and broadcasting ministry's secretary Mokbul Hossain says he was clueless about sending him on retirement.

"To my knowledge, I did not engage in any anti-government, anti-state activities or corruption," he said.

"I don't know…'" he said when asked the reason for early retirement.

Mokbul Hossain came to Secretariat to collect his personal belongings this afternoon when he talked with the media.

It is alleged that the action was taken against him as he met BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in London. "We went to London in March with a team.  Ashikunnabi is in-charge of our press. If you (media) ask him, it will be clearly known" Mokbul said.

"I went to London in March.  If the allegation is true, it had happened in March.  Now its October.  Why hasn't this question been asked so far?"

"I don't remember I ever saw Tarique Rahman and I have no wish to see him either," he added.

Asked if he met Tarique during BNP tenure, he said that they never came face to face.  "He was neither a minister nor an MP.  I saw him on television and it is normal. '

Mokbul was sent into retirement in "public interest" grounds yesterday (October 16, 2022).

The public administration ministry issued a circular that read he was sent into retirement under Section 45 of Bangladesh Service Rules 2018.