Courtesy Hiru News

Making a special statement this afternoon (11), the Prime Minister said that with the weak administrative system in the country, the economic crisis of this country can never be restored in a few days, and it will take at least a year to recover one step.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe says that he took over the country at a time when it was in a severe economic disaster.

He also said that even the International Monetary Fund has accepted that at least 04 years should be dedicated with long-term solutions.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe also says that he has not seen people suffering in gas and oil queues like this and expresses deep regret about it.

He said that he postponed all the meetings held on July 9th and stayed at home, and then the police asked him to leave the house as there was a possibility of disturbance.

Due to this, the Prime Minister stated that he and his wife left home in the evening.

At that time, the Prime Minister further mentioned that he came to know that his house had been set on fire.

The Prime Minister said that this house was the only one he had in Sri Lanka as well as abroad, and that it has now been burnt down, and he had agreed with his wife, Professor Maithri Wickramasinghe, to donate all the valuable books collected over time to the Royal College as well as the oldest Portuguese works to the University of Peradeniya.

He also said that there he never stated that he will not resign and all what he said was that he will resign as soon as a government is formed since there were crucial meetings regarding food, oil and gas that the government had to be involved including IMF.

However there were reports that he has says he will not resign and despite his repeated requests to correct this story it was not done and that people were asked to come to his house.

Listen to the full statement (Video)