{"id":49123,"date":"2015-11-04T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49123"},"modified":"2015-11-04T10:54:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:54:46","slug":"avant-garde-issue-similar-to-millennium-city-incident-marapana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/04\/avant-garde-issue-similar-to-millennium-city-incident-marapana\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant Garde issue similar to Millennium City incident &#8211; Marapana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>\u00a0Minister of Law and Order Tilak Marapana today said he believes the whole controversy surrounding the Avant Garde issue is a result of a lack of understanding regarding the floating armoury and police officers eager to gain\u00a0points\u201d with the new government.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers made these remarks in response to a statement made by JVP leader and Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Dissanayake accused Ministers in the government of intervening to protect the Avant Garde deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmVg-AieBQE?rel=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the President was sworn in on January 9 and that the following day he met with the owner of Avant Garde through Minister Vajira Abeywardena.<\/p>\n<p>I think the reason for such confusion is due to the lack of understanding regarding the floating armoury,\u201d the minister of Law and Order and Prison Reforms said.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was in the Galle Harbour since October 2014. It is a surprise if nobody saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, referring to the \u2018B report\u2019 submitted by the Galle OIC to the Galle Magistrate, the Chief Opposition Whip said that the police were unaware of such a vessel and that it was birthed at the harbor.<\/p>\n<p>The minister responded saying: I think you have not been properly notified regarding the fact. I cannot believe that the police did not see this. That is not what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police jumped in to gain points as soon as the government changed, similar to the raid on Millennium City in 2002. That\u2019s the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand why any misconduct cannot be shown if there is any misconduct,\u201d Marapana said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Adaderana \u00a0Minister of Law and Order Tilak Marapana today said he believes the whole controversy surrounding the Avant Garde issue is a result of a lack of understanding regarding the floating armoury and police officers eager to gain\u00a0points\u201d with the new government. The ministers made these remarks in response to a statement made by JVP [&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-49123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49123","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=49123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}