Letter to the editor: Sent by:Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwala

Dear President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka!

You have been putting goals on your own side these days.  You criticizing the nuts in your own national career Srilankan, berating  your own police force in spite of the relevant Minister assuring the crime rates have gone down or lamenting that a case in the courts take too long to complete – begs the 60 mission dollar question to whom is the president complaining?” and who are you expecting to handle these matters? These are matters – if at all –  that should have been raised by the opposition. Not that they are just sitting and waiting either. They are busy unsettling your government and why are you feeding ammunition to them?

Remember? You are the president!  You were elected to manage these matters – be it the Chinese involvement in building the Greater Colombo, the rupee value falling  or your subjects eating murunga leaves to survive, it is you to whom the people turn to solve. It si you who took the responsibility over. Whether you do it yourself like changing the nuts in the aeroplane, or delegate the duty to others is a matter you are supposed to decide. Complaining about these matters in public is like looking up and spitting. All the officers concerned are people working for you and you have absolute authority over them. Why are you berating them in public? It obviously  indicates  poor management.

You seem to be having a very inexperienced public relations officer whoever that may be, who is letting absolutely trivial matters that you say to get into the press and make a fool of you. Why isn’t he getting any of your statements – that is if you are making such statements – regarding cost of living, future plans or even the oncoming election – published?  It is time you changed  who is giving your statements to the press.

Remember Mr. President, for at least another one year and odd number of months you are OUR  President and we want you to solve the problems, not to tell us the problems. We are very much aware of them. Much more than you’ll ever imagine!