No more cash for Biman
Our corrupt national airline , Bangladesh Biman, is asking for guarantee from the government so that banks will start lending it money for buying new aircrafts (DS, October 4). What it all means is that Biman will not repay a single penny of the loans and in the end our poor people will have to foot the bill of hundreds of millions of dollars.
At this stage, we need to ask ourselves just one simple question: what percentage of Bangladesh's population will need food, medicine, shelter, security, etc., compared to the percentage that would ever get to fly abroad even once in their entire life?
If our people can't even afford cooking oil or sugar for themselves, why should they pay hundreds of millions of dollars to an organisation that is corrupt beyond repair and that has been making mind-boggling amount of losses year after year? Give me one reason, just one.
We strongly request the government not to give any guarantee whatsoever for Biman and not a single penny of our money should be given to it. Enough is enough!
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