Bangladesh reshuffled key Army positions to replace scandal riddled DGFI Director Major General Saiful Abedin

Important changes have been made in the Bangladesh Army on 25 February 2020. As a result, Major General Akbar has fallen from the Ninth Division GOC of Savar. On the other hand, Major General Saiful Abedin has resigned from the post of DGFI. BDPolitico published many reports about the two. Finally, both three star Generals have fallen from their position, reports BDPolitico.

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Five senior army officers have been given new responsibilities in a reshuffle in the top posts of the Bangladesh Army. Md Saiful Alam of the 11th Infantry Division has replaced Md Saiful Abedin as Director General of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI).


Md Saiful Abedin has been appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 9th Infantry Division in Savar after his controversial three-year tenure in the military intelligence organization. Major Gen Akbar Hossain, who was the GOC in Savar, will now work as Commandant of the Defence Services Command and Staff College in Mirpur.

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His predecessor at the college, Md Enayet Ullah, has been made Adjutant General at the Army Headquarters. He has replaced Mohammad Humayun Kabir, who is going to Jashore as the GOC of the 55th Infantry Division.

In this regard, bdpolitico wrote, some tortured women have complaints to Defense Minister and Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina against army General Abedin

According to sources, Major General Akbar Hossain, GOC of the 9th Division of the Bangladesh Army, is going to be removed from his position for torturing women. However, from slapping General Ershad to signing the paper with a weapon on the head of Chief Justice Sinha, the general has been widely criticized for his many rhetoric.

Major General Saiful Abedin (on the right)

It is learned that this officer, known as ‘Akbiradhya’ to the 13th batchmates of the army, was removed after having an extramarital affair with the a Bangladeshi woman while visiting China for a military training course. During his four years as Director DGFI under Sheikh Hasina government, General Akbar was directly involved in hundreds of political abductions, disappearances and killings.

Actresses Sumaiya Shimu, Jaya Ahsan, Poppy and many other women in the showbiz world have defaced General Akbar of his drunkenness in public. A few months ago, a foreign intelligence agency had captured inappropriate video footage of General Akbar with actress Jaya Ahsan at the Grand Hotel in Kolkata, India.

In March, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appointed Major General Akbar as the GOC of the Ninth Division of Savar. Despite being a GOC, Akbar could not give up the murder, money laundering, alcohol and women’s company.

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