Ruling Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that there was corruption across the world, and Bangladesh was not out of this.
鈥榃e aren鈥檛 claiming that there is no corruption here. It isn鈥檛 correct to say that only government officials are corrupt and politicians aren鈥檛,鈥� he said while inaugurating shuttle bus service of BRTC at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
He said that no corrupt person would be spared as the government had announced 鈥榸ero tolerance鈥� against corruption.
鈥業 believe the ACC (Anti-Corruption Commission) is here. The Prime Minister is firm on her zero-tolerance policy against corruption. The ACC is completely free,鈥� he said.
Quader said that the ACC was independent and it could investigate corruption without government interference.
The government had not and would not interfere with this independence, he added.
Quader said, 鈥榃hen we speak, we must consider everyone; we should first look at our own reflection in the mirror. I am speaking out against the corruption of officials, and there is corruption in my sector as well. Isn鈥檛 there? Of course, there is.鈥�
Earlier, the minister inaugurated the shuttle bus service for tourists, expatriates and general passengers to reduce their sufferings.
Civil aviation and tourism minister Muhammad Faruque Khan, Road Transport and Highways Division secretary ABM Amin Ullha Nuri, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh chairman Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman and Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation chairman Md Tazul Islam, among others, were present in the programme.
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