SSF Bill passed in House

The Special Security Force Bill, 2021 was passed in parliament yesterday incorporating the issue of providing security to the family members of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and very important persons.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, who is in charge of the Prime Minister's Office in parliamentary affairs, placed the bill which was passed by voice vote.

The proposed law was brought up as the existing law "the Special Security Force Ordinance, 1986" was void following a verdict of a court.

The new law was drafted including only one thing -- providing security to the family members of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and very important persons.

Bangabandhu's family members mean his two daughters, grandchildren, and in some cases, spouses or issues of the grandchildren.

The very important persons, defined by the government through gazettes, and heads of the foreign states or governments would be given security under the new law.

In providing security to the Bangabandhu's family members, the Special Security Force Bill, 2021, will be given priority over the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Family Members Security Act, 2009.