Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina today issued a strong warning against trading of contraband “yaba tablets” in Cox’s Bazar saying drug peddlers would be dealt with severely as they also earned a bad name for this southeastern sea resort district, reports BSS.
“Cox’s Bazar earned a bad repute as that yaba (tablets) are supplied all over the country from here. Its supply must be stopped and those who are engaged in it must be punished,” she told a mammoth public rally here this afternoon.
The premier added: “They (drug peddlers) won’t be spared in any way. Sheikh Hasina also called upon the people of all spheres to save their children from onslaughts of drugs, saying “it destroys family and life of the people (and) when a man takes drugs he loses his potency and thinking ability, gets sick and dies”.
“No parent wants their children to step into the path of premature death and be ruined in this way. So I would like to urge the people of all strata to save their children from the curse of drugs,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina also reiterated her call to the countrymen to put up a strong resistance against militancy and terrorism. “Militancy and terrorism won’t be allowed and these social vices would be clumped down in iron hand,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the present government has also set up a separate Arabic University so that madrasah students can get education of life and livelihood and stand their own feet.
