Drug trafficking can’t stop without stopping powerful persons at its source
YABA tablets popular as sedative drug among younger generation are flooding the country as news report said in national media at least twice last week drawing attention of the government and particularly the law enforcers to effectively seal the border and run drives within the country to destroy the drug syndicates. What is alarming at this stage is that Yaba traffickers are using flagship cars to amply suggest that powerful people have their involvement directly or indirectly in the drug trafficking. It makes no secret that criminals are not only running over Tk 100 crore business per month in some estimates they are also destroying our younger generation by making drugs easily available to them.
Yaba is coming into the country mainly from Myanmar where criminals are producing the tablets in factories in the border belt and pushing it into Bangladesh through Teknaf points using their network. Similarly drug syndicates are producing phensidyl in factories on Indian side of Bangladesh border and pushing it into the country where powerful distribution network using political shelter of influential people and their local peddlers are selling it at every city corners and rural areas.
It is a matter of growing concern that they are making millions of our youths addicts that includes not only unemployed people suffering from frustration but also college and university students. The list further includes growing number of professionals like film makers, vocalists, showbiz models and children of upper class families. They are increasingly becoming habituated to the drug and their growing demoralization is spreading social violence including suicide, rape, killing and such other street crimes in the society. It is no more secret that drug has a critical role behind every crime that makes perpetrators insane before he or she commits the crime.
The seizure by DB Police a consignment of 50 thousand Yaba tablets from the city’s Segunbagicha area on Sunday last also showed these tablets were carried in a Pajero Jeep with flag stand. It means the vehicle belongs to a powerful person and since the owner of the vehicle comes from Teknaf, the suspect is almost clear whom he is. His name is coming time and again with many others but the law enforcers so far proved ineffective to stop him as he is using his political shelter to run drug trafficking.
We have always laid emphasis that the government must take the issue of drug trafficking with Myanmar and India to stop it at source. Such plea made no progress so far as the drug is flooding into the country. But the question is if powerful ruling party men are involving themselves in drug trafficking, it is hard to stop. We have always said our dirty politics and criminals operating as politicians are destroying our society. Drug trafficking may only stop by stopping such criminals from politics.
Yaba is coming into the country mainly from Myanmar where criminals are producing the tablets in factories in the border belt and pushing it into Bangladesh through Teknaf points using their network. Similarly drug syndicates are producing phensidyl in factories on Indian side of Bangladesh border and pushing it into the country where powerful distribution network using political shelter of influential people and their local peddlers are selling it at every city corners and rural areas.
It is a matter of growing concern that they are making millions of our youths addicts that includes not only unemployed people suffering from frustration but also college and university students. The list further includes growing number of professionals like film makers, vocalists, showbiz models and children of upper class families. They are increasingly becoming habituated to the drug and their growing demoralization is spreading social violence including suicide, rape, killing and such other street crimes in the society. It is no more secret that drug has a critical role behind every crime that makes perpetrators insane before he or she commits the crime.
The seizure by DB Police a consignment of 50 thousand Yaba tablets from the city’s Segunbagicha area on Sunday last also showed these tablets were carried in a Pajero Jeep with flag stand. It means the vehicle belongs to a powerful person and since the owner of the vehicle comes from Teknaf, the suspect is almost clear whom he is. His name is coming time and again with many others but the law enforcers so far proved ineffective to stop him as he is using his political shelter to run drug trafficking.
We have always laid emphasis that the government must take the issue of drug trafficking with Myanmar and India to stop it at source. Such plea made no progress so far as the drug is flooding into the country. But the question is if powerful ruling party men are involving themselves in drug trafficking, it is hard to stop. We have always said our dirty politics and criminals operating as politicians are destroying our society. Drug trafficking may only stop by stopping such criminals from politics.
