Dual citizenship

It is wonderful news, published in your daily and issued by the foreign ministry on 24 March, that British passport holder Bangladeshis from now on will retain their Bangladeshi citizenship automatically under a new rule of the Ministry of Home affairs. This rule will scrap the previous notification, circulars, orders or instructions of the government.
I am not very certain what the news actually means. I have both Bangladeshi & British passports but does this new rule mean that I can travel any time with any one of the two passports, provided I have visa for the countries where I intend to go? No. The experience I had was bitter. What happened actually is that I came to Bangladesh with my Bangladeshi passport in 2003 and after spending two years and seven months, I was going back to London with my British passport as I decided to go to the USA and going with the Bangladeshi passport meant that I needed to obtain the US visa. Unfortunately, at Zia Airport I was told that I could not go with the British passport as I came to Bangladesh with my Bangladeshi passport. The other reason was that according to the British immigration rule I could stay in Bangladesh or any other place for a maximum period of two years. Although nowadays British Immigration Authority is very tough and they want to know why one needs to stay abroad for even two years when he chose Britain as his place of residence. Since I stayed in Bangladesh for two years and seven months, I would not have got the re-entry to London with Bangladesh passport. But I failed to make the Dhaka Immigration Authority understand my position. So I had to come back home and started thinking how I would be able to get dual citizenship.
Next day I visited a few people and found out what I would have to do to get the required Bangladeshi citizenship:
1. Collect form from the Ministry of Home Affairs (Nationality Department) personally.
I am sure all of you know very well how difficult it is to get entry to the secretariat.
2. After obtaining the form, complete it with photographs, pay fee to Bangladesh Bank and then submit it to the Ministry of Home. They will send the form to the special branch of police in Rajarbagh from where after a few days an Inspector will go to your house without any appointment to interview you. You will have to pay "bakhshis" to get a correct report which would go back to the home ministry where the official will write a note for Assistant Secretary/Deputy Secretary/Joint secretary and Additional Secretary who eventually will issue the citizenship. Then again you will have to go the ministry or send an authorized person to collect the certificate. Remember that this is not a dual citizenship certificate but simply a citizenship certificate of Bangladesh. The heading on the certificate is “certificate of citizenship of Bangladesh”.
Under clause (2) of article 2B of the Bangladesh citizenship (Temporary Provisions) Order 1972 (P.O no 149 of 1972)", this means that former governments of Bangladesh never thought of issuing a certificate which would say that the person who got the citizenship is a dual citizen. I found it a bit strange as in my Bangladeshi passport it is written that my nationality is Bangladeshi. It may be mentioned that most of the countries issue passports to their nationals after giving them citizenship certificate first. Then why it is different in Bangladesh?
However, after collecting the new citizenship certificate everything is not over. You need to take your passport, both Bangladeshi & British along with a completed form to the office of the superintendent of police, Rajarbagh where some entries will be made in their computer to become a dual citizen.
I regret to say whichever office you go for meeting the formalities, you should be ready to offer something.
It would be better if these formalities are scrapped all together. And those who have two passports should be allowed to travel anywhere with either one of the passports (provided the visa for the destination countries are obtained). Nowadays we need to have the stamp "no visa required for travel to Bangladesh' from Bangladesh High Commission and this means that I am a citizen of Bangladesh.
Therefore my humble suggestion to the Bangladesh government is: accept those people who have no visa requirement in their British passports as dual citizens.