State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Nasrul Hamid Bipu, said the government will not take any responsibility of corruption rather stern actions will be taken against all corruption. He was addressing as chief guest at the Four Storied Terminal Office building of Jamuana Oil Company Limited at Guptakal of Patenga in Chattogram yesterday.

He urged the state oil companies for automation system for delivering and transportation. He said due to aged old transportation and delivery system the state owned oil companies incurred loss Tk1,000 crore every year.

He said they are installing Single Mourning Point (SPM) (Pipelines) to carry oil from Ships to refinery to stop the huge system loss.

“If we could implement the SPM project the corruption will come down into zero”, said the State Minister.

The government has created a congenial environment for investment which is attracting foreign investors but if someone destroys the reliability, stern actions will be taken against them, he warned.  

Accountability is the main thing. Not only government but also to an ordinary shareholder can demand accountability of your carelessness and negligence in work, said Hamid.

“For your corruption, the government is losing reputation and the government lead by Sheikh Hasina will not tolerate such issues”, Hamid added.  

We need those employees who’s outcome is good as we need thousands of professionals in future for the new projects, he said.

Referring the corruption of Barapukuria Coal power plant he said that his government stands against corruption. The incident of corruption came into light which is good for the government as the corruption has been unveiled during Awmi League government.

Corruption was underway in the plant for the last 13 years, he mentioned.   

In replying to a question he said government is not under pressure over the corruption incidents rather the corrupted officials are feeling the pressure.

Nasrul Hamid inaugurated the newly made terminal building at around 4:30pm. Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, director Finance of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) was present at the event as special guest while the inauguration programme was presided by Md Sarwar Alam, director marketing of BPC and Kamrul Hasan, managing director of Jamuna Oil Company Limited delivered the welcome address.