Staff Reporter:
Not only the current interim government, but also any future elected administration would find it very challenging to fix the country’s problems after years of devastation and plundering, Shipping Adviser Brigadier General (Retd) M Sakhawat Hossain said at an event in Khulna on Friday.
The corruption during 15-year Awami League regime amounts to not only the stealing of a sea, but also the stealing of the entire “Pacific Ocean,” the former army officer said during the 50th founding anniversary celebration programme of Govt Sundarban Adarsha College in Khulna.
However, even after the fall of the Awami League fascists, extortion and terrorist acts are being conducted at a heightened level across the country, the shipping adviser warned, urging all influential people to intervene and stop the rampant extortions.
Although the adviser did not name any group, activists of BNP, the political party most likely to clinch power in a potentially unopposed future general election, have been replacing Awami League goons in countrywide extortion rackets, and terror centres.
Central BNP politicians have so far failed to rein in their grassroots juniors.
The achievement of the July-August student-led mass uprising, and over 2,000 martyrs must not be allowed to become futile, Sakhawat said, urging all to work towards rebuilding the country.
He also said the people would soon get to know that Awami League-allied law enforcers set up secret detention centres in universities, residential hotels and even residences to quell dissent. The detention centres were not limited to cantonment facilities only, he noted.
