Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said the government will make the Bay of Bengal and the entire coastal belt of Bangladesh free from pirates and robbers soon.
“The Rapid Action Battalion, Coast Guard, Border Guard Bangladesh, Ansar, and Police are sincerely working together to free the Bay and coastal belts of Bangladesh from pirates and robbers.”
“We will get rid of militants, robbers, pirates, and terrorists soon,” he expressed hope while addressing as the chief guest at the surrender-ceremony of pirates in the city’s Patenga RAB-7 headquarters.
A total of 50 pirates, including a woman, from the coastal areas of Chattogram and Cox's Bazar districts surrendered before the Home Minister with arms and ammunition at the ceremony.
Terming RAB ‘a symbol of trust and faith’, he said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assigned RAB as a task force in 2012 with a view to protecting the lives of marginalised people in the Sundarbans.
Financial assistance is being provided to the surrendered bandits, so that they cannot return to their previous profession.
Commander of RAB-7 Lieutenant Colonel Mahbubul Alam presided over the function while M Abdul Latif MP, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, RAB Director General M Khurshid Hossain, CMP Commissioner Krishna Pad Roy, Divisional Commissioner Chattogram Md. Tofail Islam, and Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Nur-e-Alam Mina, among others, addressed the function.
