Staff Reporter :
The BNP on Sunday accused the government of helping ‘drug godfather’ Teknaf law maker Abdur Rahman Bodi to leave the country.
“MP Badi and such other influential persons linked to ruling party are behind the drug trade in the country. People want to know how can the drug godfather was able to leave the country when numbers of intelligence agencies are in surveillance? It is clear to all that the government has helped those godfathers to leave country,” BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said while addressing a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, yesterday. Criticising the incidents of gunfight during the ongoing anti-narcotics drives across the country; Rizvi alleged that the Awami League-led government wants to create a generation of orphans putting people to illegal crossfire.
He said the government is finding out a solution to cling to power through resorting to extra-judicial killings.
“They might have forgotten about punishment of nature. One such killing makes way to more killings,” he said.
Slamming AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader for his comment over the killing of Teknaf councillor Ekramul Haque, Rizvi said, “Obaidul’s remarks are nothing but a mockery.”
“The audio record of the last mobile phone conversations between Ekramul Haque and his family members and their cry shook the world conscience,” Rizvi said.
The BNP leader said “About 250 people have fallen victims to extra-judicial killings in last four months. Most of them were youths. The government has a political motive behind the killings as they kept the country in the dark about the victims’ involvement in crimes.”
He also alleged that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been incarcerated by the government instruction and based on fake cases with fake documents.
Demanding immediate release of Khaleda Zia, the senior BNP leader said, “If Khaleda Zia is not released before Eid-ul-Fitr, we are ready to give a reply to such repression being unleashed on her.”
BNP central leader Jainul Abdin Faruk, Habibul Islam Habib, Habibur Rahman Habib and Asadul Karim Shaheen, among others, were present.
