We have to nab ring leaders to eliminate drug abuse: Jahangir 

Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that we have to nab ring leaders of drug trading to free the country from the menace.

He said this after distrusting cheques of donations among the private drug rehabilitation centres on Wednesday.

The program was held marking the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 2025, to be observed on Thursday in the country as elsewhere in the world.

“Drug and corruption are the two most serious problems for the country. Arresting the godfathers of the drug trafficking is more important than holding the carriers of drug,” he said.

Replying to a question about involvement of a section of members of the law enforcing agencies in the drug trafficking, he said, legal actions would be taken against anybody to be found indulge in this misdeed. 

A high official has already been closed for his suspicious link to the drug trafficking and he would be exposed to justice soon, he said.

The adviser said the government is going to constructing rehabilitation centres for drug addicts in seven divisions at a cost of Taka 1,400 crore. 

He thanked the private drug rehabilitation centres for their role in bringing the drug addicts into normal life, calling upon them to strengthen their activities.

Jahangir Alam said contraband drugs like Phensedyl syrup and Yaba tablet are being smuggled into Bangladesh from India and Myanmar.