Corruption-free society a must for better future: Chief Adviser  

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has descried boundless corruption as the “biggest problem” in Bangladesh and a corruption-free society a must for better future. 

The Chief Adviser said this while addressing the nation on the occasion of Independence Day and upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr on Tuesday evening.

He said the previous Awami League government has taken the corruption to the top of the world. 

Corruption not only increases costs incredibly but also destroys all the efforts of the government and the people and it makes meaningless all goals, policies, institutional arrangements of the government as well as the responsibilities of its officials, he said in a televised address to the nation on the eve of the great Independence and Eid-ul-Fitr.

He said the government, businessmen, industrialists, investors and all the citizens of the country have to work according to these unwritten rules (corruption).

The Chief Adviser said citizens have to strive to become experts in the art of survival by dealing with it.

Noting that the whole world has understood that we as a nation do not carry the identity of honesty, Yunus said this is not only a matter of national disgrace, but it is a suicidal issue in international trade. 

“Like the countrymen, the international community also wants us to be free from corruption, because they want to expand trade and commerce with us. If we cannot be free from corruption, trade and commerce will not progress. Bangladesh has no way without being free from corruption,” he said.

Yunus said his interim government is putting top priority on making all work corruption-free. 

“In addition to trying to keep this government's tenure corruption-free, we are committed to ensuring that the citizens of the country can be free from government-sponsored corruption in the coming days as well,” he said.

The Chief Adviser said, “We are giving importance to one thing in preventing corruption and harassment.”