Re-commissioning of Navy frigate Bangabandhu on June 14
Staff Correspondent
The Tk 500 crore state-of-the art frigate of Bangladesh Navy will be re-commissioned on June 14 after more than five years.Navy sources said that Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed will re-commission the frigate through a ceremony. The frigate was decommissioned on February 13, 2002 and removed from the naval fleet only after eight months of its commissioning. The frigate named "Bangabandhu" became the victim of utter political meanness of the immediate past BNP-led alliance government. Equipped for underwater, surface and air operations the frigate model DW 2000H was built by South Korean Daewoo. The 340-metre long and 41-metre wide frigate also has a helicopter base. This decommissioning was done on the pretext of corruption in the frigate purchase. The alliance government filed a corruption case against Sheikh Hasina, Daewoo local agent Abdul Awal Mintoo and four defence officials in 2003. But the government did not pursue the case.
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