TDS Desk

Not only the current interim government, but also the 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 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, he warned that extortion and terrorist acts are still being conducted at a heightened level across the country, despite the fall of the Awami League fascists, 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 form government after potentially unopposed future elections, have been replacing Awami League goons in countrywide extortion rackets, and terror centres.

Central BNP politician have so far failed to rein in their grassroots juniors.

The achievement of 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 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.