Seven days after the president and the remaining twenty-three directors of the CCCI executive board resigned in the face of demonstrations, the Government appointed an administrator to the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) on Monday.
Muhammad Anowar Pasha, the Additional Divisional Commissioner (General) of Chittagong, has been named as the administrator by an order signed by the Director General of the Trade Organization Wing of the Commerce Ministry, Dr. Nazneen Kawshar Chowdhury.
The wing further requested that the new administrator transfer the responsibility to the elected committee and arrange a free and impartial election for the CCCI board within 120 days of the order’s issuance.
Following objections from the business community, all 24 members of the CCCI executive board, including Omar Hazzaz, the board president, resigned earlier on 2nd September.
Hazzaz said that various organisations operating under the names “Deprived Business Community” and “All Business Community of Chattogram” were holding demonstrations in a letter to the trade ministry the same day.
Since the administration of the Awami League fell on 5th August, they have been calling for the resignation of the incumbent members of the CCCI board and a new election.
Omar Hazzaz, the son of former local Awami League politician MA Latif, was selected on 8th August of last year to serve as the CCCI’s president for the terms 2023–2024 and 2024–2025.
