Live Correspondent: President Abdul Hamid today asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to ensure proper punishment of the corrupt individuals and not to harass any innocent people anyway.

The President gave the directive when a four-member ACC delegation, led by its Chairman Iqbal Mahmood, submitted its Annual Report-2018 to him at Bangabhaban here this afternoon.

He directed the country’s anti-graft watchdog to conduct drive against corruption in education, health and other service sectors, President’s Press Secretary Mohammad Joynal Abedin told BSS.

Referring to getting Bangladesh’s status of a developing state, the President said, “Corruption must be removed from the society and the concerned authority will have to take different motivational programmes for the new generation to keep them away from the corrupt practices.”

Dhaka, 13 May (campuslive24.com)//MIH