But the LGRD Ministry on Thursday said mayor AJM Nasir Uddin will have to explain his bombshell remark. “They told me – you’ll get the allocation you want for the city corporation, but you must give us five percent,” Nasir said. The ministry secretary Abdul Malek told reporters at the Secretariat, “He must explain, it’s clear.”Mayor Nasir was speaking at a city dialogue programme at the port the city when he said: “This time we have received only Tk 800 million. Whoever it is, he will have to disclose it.”“He is a politician and a mayor ... so he should prove his own remarks. Secretary Abdul Malek in his response said: “He has said whatever he has.

Source: bd News24 August 11, 2016 10:30 UTC