Muhammad Yunus has left the Grameen Bank Complex nearly six years after his removal as the bank’s managing director.Yunus left the place where he lived for 30 years on Wednesday evening, Yunus Center General Manager MFM Amir Khashru said in a Facebook post.Khashru also posted some photos of the Nobel Peace Prize winner taken during his departure.Bangladesh Bank removed Yunus from the bank on Mar 2, 2011 on ground of crossing the official age limit. Yunus had challenged his dismissal in the top court but lost.The Nobel Prize winner’s relationship with the government has been on shaky ground since, even leading to heated exchanges at times.Former Chittagong University professor Yunus had been the Managing Director of Grameen Bank since its inception in the 1980s.
He received his Nobel Prize in 2006 for his work.Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhit has complained that the government has been unable to take any decision regarding Grameen Bank because of Yunus, even after his removal. The government currently holds a 30 percent stake in Grameen Bank.The multi-storied Grameen Bank Complex is at Mirpur-2. It also housed the Yunus Center, an organisation named after the bank’s founding managing director.Khashru wrote in the Facebook post: “Professor Muhammad Yunus had been living in Grameen Bank Complex for the past 30 years. He nurtured Grameen Bank just like his own child. Even when he was abroad his presence always lingered here.“He had decided to shift long ago but had retreated on the requests from Grameen family. But we couldn’t keep him any longer. Today he shifted to his new residence leaving us all in tears,” he added.On Sunday, Grameen Bank officials told bdnews24.com that Yunus had left the Grameen Bank Complex around 6:30 pm on Wednesday. He also delivered a speech at a small programme on the occasion.Most of the furniture in the residence was supplied by Grameen Bank, said a worker. “He bought only a few of the pieces himself and took those with him.”“Yunus sir’s daughter no longer wanted to live here after her father was dismissed from the role of Managing Director,” the worker continued. “I believe, even if there were no problems, sir would have rented a house in Gulshan for her sake.”A few Grameen Bank officials helped Yunus move to his new residence on the 12th floor of a 16-storey building in Gulshan.With all the Grameen Bank branches closed for the Christmas holiday, an address could not be collected from officials.
source:bdnews24.com
