Latif's surrender
LATIF Siddique's dramatic surrender to the law on Tuesday has ended all the furore created at home over some impolitic and reckless remarks that he made while abroad. It is noteworthy that despite his earlier acts of bravado, the former minister and presidium member of the ruling AL has finally seen reason to submit himself before law. Now it is up to the government to see that the law runs its own course and the matter brought to a closure.
One is constrained to note, however, that some mystery was allowed to shroud his arrival and eventual exit. Especially, the way he vanished into thin air after arrival at the Shahjalal Int'l airport from Kolkata hardly speaks well of how the issue was being handled. Thanks to the PM's direct order to the home minister, the police finally went into action.
What Latif has had to face for his irresponsible remarks should be a lesson for our politicians. We hope, to avoid future embarrassments, the government would make it mandatory for people holding public offices to follow some code of conduct, particularly when visiting a foreign country.
Let Latif face his comeuppance. But have not some of our political parties, including pro-Islamic ones, by raising hell over the issue betrayed an attempt to make a political capital out of it? This must stop as the law takes its own course.
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