A Correspondent:
Cox’s Bazar: Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) yesterday asked all concerned to take action considering crime, not party.
“We’re not working for the benevolence of any party. Whatever needs to be done is being done for the welfare of the country,” he said.
The Home Adviser said no one in the administration has been told by any department to show sympathy to people of any party.
“If leaders and activists of any party are involved in encroachment or any other crime, the concerned have been instructed to take strict action against them based on evidence,” he said.
He made the remarks while speaking to journalists after exchanging views with officials of the Home and Agriculture Ministries at the Cox’s Bazar Deputy Commissioner’s conference room.
The Home Affairs Adviser has also ordered withdrawal of Chakaria Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Manjur Quader Bhuiyan within 24 hours.
He gave the instruction to the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Chittagong Range over phone upon receiving a complaint made by a journalist.
Jahangir said kidnapping and drug trafficking have increased in Cox’s Bazar and the issue is often re-ported in the media.
“You (journalists) and the local conscious people know who is doing these things. There is a disease in our administration, which is giving priority to the people of the party which has the chance to come to
power,” he said.
About Rohingya issue, the Home Affairs Adviser said that they have given shelter to the Rohingyas on humanitarian ground.
“Although it is said to be 1.2 million on paper, but, the actual number is even higher. They have become a burden for us. Without their repatriation, it is difficult to stop criminal activities in the border are-as,” he said.
Jahangir said Bangladesh has import-export trade with Myanmar.
“But since the Arakan Army took over Rakhine State, there have been obstacles in trade. The Arakan Army had detained many ships. It had taken many Bangladeshi fishermen. For this reason, contact is being maintained with the Arakan Army for the sake of border security and the repatriation of the Roh-ingyas,” he said.
