The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Chuadanga

Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury on Tuesday said a social resistance has to be built against the endemic corruption considering it as an enemy.

"Corruption has undermined our image. We have to keep our heads down due to the corruption. It can't go on anymore. Now, it's time to present the new generation a corruption-free country by waging a visible anti-graft movement," he said in a view-exchange meeting at the local Town Hall.

Stressing the need for building a corruption-free society, he said everyone needs to remain clean and free from corruption.

The ACC chairman, now on a tour of districts as part of his campaign to prevent corruption, said, "There is no reason to be worried about security while playing a role against corruption. The country's administration is with you."

The view-exchange meeting was addressed, among others, by ACC director general Abu Taleb Miah, Chuadanga deputy commissioner Abdul Mannan and superintendent of police Mofizuddin Ahmed.

Government officials, local elite and NGO leaders were present at the meeting.

In Narail, the ACC boss also addressed a meeting and said Bangladesh has got a bad name of corrupt country since good people of the society have withdrawn themselves from different spheres.

He called upon the people not to be involved in corrupt practices.