{"id":154355,"date":"2026-01-27T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154355"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:24:23","slug":"chief-prelates-urge-internal-appointment-for-auditor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/01\/27\/chief-prelates-urge-internal-appointment-for-auditor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief prelates urge internal appointment for Auditor General"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Morning<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Senior Buddhist prelates have urged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to appoint a qualified officer from within the Auditor General\u2019s Department to the post, warning against selecting an external candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They recommended Dharmapala Gammanpila, a senior departmental officer with long experience, as a suitable choice and called for an urgent appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Auditor General position has been vacant since April 2025, and delays have raised concerns over public finance oversight and transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Morning Senior Buddhist prelates have urged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to appoint a qualified officer from within the Auditor General\u2019s Department to the post, warning against selecting an external candidate. They recommended Dharmapala Gammanpila, a senior departmental officer with long experience, as a suitable choice and called for an urgent appointment. The Auditor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154355","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=154355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154356,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154355\/revisions\/154356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}