Home Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has called for maintaining strict vigilance and highest security in the border areas saying no negligence should be shown to prevent smuggling for national interest.
“Stern action will be taken for defending smuggling for the cause of national interest,” he said.
Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said these while speaking as the chief guest at a views-exchange meeting with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officers at its headquarters in the capital on Monday.
Director General of BGB Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui and other officials of the force were present at the event.
The home adviser also asked the BGB members to work in line with the law and mandate, saying “The people are happy with the activities of the border security force as their performance is now far better than in the past”.
He said that BGB personnel will have to maintain chain of command along with following just and lawful orders of their senior officers, asking the border security force to work with new spirit.
Jahangir Alam Chowdhury also called upon the BGB members to maintain good relations with the people.
Later, while briefing the newsmen, the home adviser said that it is not sure now if any commission will have to be constituted to investigate into the BDR killing, but he said, ‘We must re-investigate the incident and it will be quickly’.
He said that the law and order situation is becoming normal. But, it will take time to reach the momentum, he added.
