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KAMAL-YABA-SUPPLY
Govt determined to cut off Yaba supply line: Kamal
DHAKA, June 3, 2018 (BSS) -Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said
the government is determined to cut off the supply line of Yaba and other
drugs from Myanmar.
“We are trying to cut off the supply line of Yaba and other drugs by
enforcing strict vigilance across the 271-kilometer nearly inaccessible
border with Myanmar,” the minister said while talking to BSS at his official
residence here today.
He said, “We have already instructed the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB),
Coast Guard and River Police authorities to deploy adequate manpower in the
bordering areas so that the smugglers cannot enter Bangladesh territory with
those band drug items.”
The home minister said the concerned authorities have undertaken new
projects to set up narrow passages along over 200 kilometres inaccessible
land border with Myanmar for increasing foot patrolling by BGB members.
A new outpost of River Police has already been set up with adequate
logistics at Takenaf along the Naf River.
Besides, he said, a good number of border observation posts would also be
set up along the 271-kilometer borderline up to Shahporir Dwip.
Jotirmoy Dutta, additional secretary to the Home Ministry, told BSS that
the BGB and Coast Guard are jointly patrolling nearly 50 to 60 kilometres
border alongside the Naf River up to Shahporir Dwip.
The coast Guard recently collected some patrol boats to guard the sea belts
of Bangladesh, the home boss said adding that the Bangladesh Navy has also
bought some tag boats to protect the maritime boundaries of the country
specially the south-eastern part.
Sheikh Muhammad Maruf Hassan, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the newly
introduced River Police, told BSS that a new outpost of the force comprising
20 people with a speed boat has already started its operations in the Naf
River to resist the drug traders and smugglers.
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