Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury spoke to journalists at the ministry conference room in Dhaka. Photo: PID

  
DHAKA, June 25, 2025 (BSS)- Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said the government is trying to put the ring leaders of drug trading behind the bar to free the country from the menace.

“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 journalists after distrusting cheques of donations among the private drug rehabilitation centres today.

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

Replying to a question about involvement of a section of members of the law enforcing agencies in the drug trafficking, he said, legal action 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. 

“We have requested the government of the two countries to dismantle their drug factories,” the adviser said.

“We have already talked to the concerned authorities of the countries to initiate measures to close those,” he added.