{"id":105128,"date":"2020-08-01T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105128"},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:08:14","slug":"ect-port-strikes-and-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/01\/ect-port-strikes-and-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"ECT, port strikes and corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I was watching the tv on today and on another day and saw hundreds of port workers planning to stage a strike against a decision of corrupt politicians to sell part of the port.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were mercilessly threatening the nation which had been battered by Corona.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAGT sale was also marred with corruption similarly \u00a0ECT sale too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the reason why Port workers are on strike because a private sector taking over management will deprive them of earning illegal money by demanding kickbacks during unloading and releasing cargo. Crane operators forklift operators in the port take bribes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Port in Sri Lanka is synonymous with corruption. Except for a few Engineering staff at a higher level almost everyone has been and are corrupt Security service is most corrupted and work hand in hand with customs where most of them are corrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few chairmen appointed by the ministers in the past were\ninvolved in corruption&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing can be done without paying them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Private sector send applications for annual entry passes to get into port to do business and the security handling the passes harass you and delay issuing passes to get kickbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to do business in the port you need to be ready to pay someone.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities involved in approving the usage of tugs and other service vessels have to pay underhand to survive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole country is corrupt and now most important agency which is police narcotic bureau is openly corrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a nation of politicians state officers and corporate bosses who are corrupt and it looks like we will never get rid of it.\u00a0With Corona where bribe-takers had to lie low are now back in business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only army navy and airforce &nbsp;may be above board and we\nshould salute them&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <br>\nCEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br>\nColombo <br>\nSri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I was watching the tv on today and on another day and saw hundreds of port workers planning to stage a strike against a decision of corrupt politicians to sell part of the port.\u00a0 They were mercilessly threatening the nation which had been battered by Corona.\u00a0 SAGT sale was also marred with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105128","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=105128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}