{"id":103278,"date":"2020-06-07T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103278"},"modified":"2020-06-07T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:31:23","slug":"president-sirisenas-revelations-regarding-22000-signatures-and-advisors-of-past-and-present-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/07\/president-sirisenas-revelations-regarding-22000-signatures-and-advisors-of-past-and-present-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena’s revelations regarding 22,000 signatures and advisors of past and present presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aloysius Hettiarachchi<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

On the 4th<\/sup> of June  former president made a startling revelations\nto say that he had to personally sign 22,000 documents within  a couple of days or so for the extradition of\nArjun Mahandran from Singapore. He has been convinced again to say that he cannot\nbe brought to Sri Lanka to face charges because he is now an Alexander and not\na Mahendran. This is amazing given the fact that all those around him were very\nexperienced civil servants and top lawyers. I think the Attorney General at\nthat time was the current one. Did they all take our head of state as a joke?.\nIf so, no wonder a thing like Pasku Praharaya (the 4\/21 attack) took place when\nall law enforcement forces as well as armed forces were under him. And all\nthose top brass took advantage of the situation to make a fast buck at the experience\nof about 300 innocent lives as well as those 500 people who have been\ncritically injured. If what he said was true, then it is an insult on the whole\nnation (especially on the Sinhalese) and action should be taken against all\nthose who advised him to do this shameful act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly we see the same thing happening\nto the current president, too. We see that he is being surrounded by a\nsimilarly experienced lot and being advised to approve some wonderful projects.\nThe world\u2019s largest cricket grounds with money collected by begging is one. And\nthen he has been advised to embark on beach nourishment project at a most\nunsuitable period of rough and high tide seas without any serious studies.\nAlmost one billion rupees gone in water in just a couple of days. I remember\nthe government of the country where I previously worked sent some senior\nengineers from their relevant department together with a representative of the\ncompany where I worked to Sri Lanka (Lanka Hydraulic Institute) to do the modelling\nof the project in their research station for a Coastal Protection Project. They\nwere the consults together with LHI for that multimillion dollar project and\nthey had high regard for those engineers doing the modelling. Why was LHI\noverlooked for this project?. Like signing the documents by the former prez,\nthese coastal conservation officers and their contractors must have created a\nvery nice picture of beautiful beaches after the work was over. However there\nshould have been a clause to rectify the damages by the contractor if things go\nwrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We saw the other day a bunch of so called\nexperts on dairy farming which included some lady professors giving a rosy\npicture to the nation. The whole nation knows how silly their plans are as\nsimilar importation of cows have gone awry more than once. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not stopping there now the education\nministers want to build so many universities in one go without any planning  when we are running short of money to pay even\nthe salaries according to some news reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we supported the prez in these forums for\nhis campaign we had a good idea about him. \nWe thought he would at least take back Hambanthota port as promised and will\nnot be openly supportive of some sections of the minorities who are hell bent\nin destroying the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the number of blunders already\ncommitted or planned to do within this short period of time we do not know\nwhere we will be heading on the long run, if advisors remain the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aloysius Hettiarachchi On the 4th of June  former president made a startling revelations to say that he had to personally sign 22,000 documents within  a couple of days or so for the extradition of Arjun Mahandran from Singapore. He has been convinced again to say that he cannot be brought to Sri Lanka to face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}