{"id":44200,"date":"2015-05-26T05:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44200"},"modified":"2015-05-26T05:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:39:44","slug":"we-dont-know-who-to-believe-now-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/26\/we-dont-know-who-to-believe-now-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t know who to believe now \u2013 Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that certain members of the government who had accused him of corruption in the constructing of the Colombo Port City project, during the Presidential Election, are now saying no such thing has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>I recently heard a government politician saying that no fraud has taken place in the Port City (project). With the same mouth during the election they claimed that I had swindled millions from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0qd9e4P0j0?rel=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The man who claimed that massive corruption had taken place is now saying that no corruption has taken place,\u201d he told reports today.<\/p>\n<p>Some are engaging in a procession to build something (and) they keep kissing a brick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa also accused the government of abruptly halting all the development in the country.<\/p>\n<p>I presented a budget and I had clearly shown the development for this year, its cost and the profit it gains. This was not enough for them so they brought a separate e budget. Now they are saying there is no money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former President\u2019s saying there is no money and that they can\u2019t do anything while the others are saying there is money,\u201d he said, adding, the people don\u2019t know who to believe at this point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that certain members of the government who had accused him of corruption in the constructing of the Colombo Port City project, during the Presidential Election, are now saying no such thing has taken place. I recently heard a government politician saying that no fraud has taken place in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44200","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=44200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}