Reiterating her government’s firm stance against corruption, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government will continue its fight against graft to keep up the country’s development spree and uphold its achievements.
“Though it’s not possible for any country to root out cent percent corruption, it’s a responsibility of our government to check corruption so that it cannot hinder the development and ruin our all successes,” she said on Sunday (Jan 13).Her remarks came while exchanging views with senior officials of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on the first working day of her office at the PMO after assuming office for the fourth time in a third straight term, reports BSS.
Urging public servants for their all out effort for the country’s development, the prime minister said
“We want to build Bangladesh as a developed and prosperous nation…we have already got the recognition of the developing country and this achievement will have to be retained,” she said.
Stressing the need for making the country self-reliant in all fields, the premier said Bangladesh will have to move keeping pace with the world.
“We shouldn’t be dependent on others….we’ll have to stand on our own feet,” she said.
Hasina urged all to stay alert so that the anti-liberation forces never come to power. “We want that whoever comes to power they will believe in the spirit and thought of independence and the country will move ahead through it.”
She instructed officials to complete the ongoing development projects fast and said that she will start visiting the ministries soon like her previous tenures to infuse further dynamism into their work.
The prime minister also reiterated her determination to make Bangladesh a middle income country by 2021 and a developed and prosperous one by 2041.
She asked the officials to take massive preparations to celebrate the Mujib Barsho in 2020-2021 in a befitting manner and conduct campaign massively in this regard.
PM’s Advisers HT Imam, Dr Moshiur Rahman, Dr Towfik-e-Elahi Chowdhury and Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddiq and Principal Coordinator on the SDG Affairs at the PMO Md Abul Kalam Azad also spoke at the function moderated by PM’s Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman.
Earlier, the advisers and officials of different wings of the PMO, including PM’s principal secretary, military secretary, PMO secretary, press secretary, director general of the SSF and other directors general greeted the prime minister by presenting her with bouquets separately.