{"id":54644,"date":"2016-05-14T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54644"},"modified":"2016-05-14T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T21:38:57","slug":"foreign-assistance-to-find-a-way-out-of-the-economic-mess-and-catching-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/14\/foreign-assistance-to-find-a-way-out-of-the-economic-mess-and-catching-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign assistance to find a way out of the economic mess and catching thieves\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Year 2014 was\u00a0 a turning point for the United National Party ( with no luck for \u00a0JVP) as a well-orchestrated plan was launched with the help of powerful \u00a0uncontestable and believable media drive with the help of some disgruntled politicians, artists \u00a0and journalists \u00a0\u00a0who have turned the wheel of the country\u2019s development by terminating MR\u2019s regime .<\/p>\n

Many claim that foreign countries were involved and conspired against the government and even spend colossal amount of money to topple the government.<\/p>\n

Whether it is true or not,there may have been support from the west and India \u00a0\u00a0to carry out about task.<\/p>\n

Then none of those countries kept their promises to help us to come out of the economic mess as claimed, and gave meagre amounts of cash to help to cover the balance of payments \u00a0.<\/p>\n

During last 18 months ,people were expecting miracles ,but nothing seems happening .When we talk about development and corruption ( which goes hand in hand in every country)<\/p>\n

First phrase with the question is These people are not catching any thieves as yet ??!! <\/p>\n

Second phrase \u00a0is Nothing tangible is happening to develop the country\u201d<\/p>\n

This means that the priority of the people is to catch the thieves which this government has miserably failed .<\/p>\n

They expect to catch the thieves as per the theory in Sinhala Puhul Hora Karen Danei\u201d means The thief who steels a pumpkin will get caught as the stain of the pumkpin skin will be visible on his shoulder and he can be easily identified.<\/p>\n

Does the government expect the so called thieves to carry the stolen pumpkin to carry on one\u2019s shoulder so that he get caught ?<\/p>\n

When Panama papers revealed that few prominent people in the country have stashed money to avoid taxes and they may \u00a0go scot free ,I recollect how the days of British Colonial days ,people were severely punished in public for the offence of non payment of taxes ,and now sadly we close our eyes?<\/p>\n

All the above preamble is to come to the point to elaborate the fact that , during the first few months of coming to power our leaders had to travel extensively to the \u00a0West and India \u00a0and later to China with a begging bowl and they did not heed much in giving grants to help our recovery and continue the development <\/strong><\/p>\n

Now as I mentioned earlier leaders have found that the People in the country has a priority which is to \u00a0catch the thieves<\/strong> first and then concentrate on the development?<\/p>\n

Leaders \u00a0now wonder whether they now want the assistance of a foreign forces to catch the thieves by attending Anti corruption Conference and then go to India for further support to locate stolen cash??<\/p>\n

When I was working in UK for a \u00a0British Branch of and American Company where Dick Cheney \u00a0( who was the secretary of state ) was the Chairman,involved in a project to develop Liquefied Natural Gas ( LNG) in Port Harcourt in Nigeria paid hefty \u00a0bribes to the Nigerian Chief of the particulate state Port Harcourt \u00a0to get the project by a Dutch company- Shell ,and all of them got caught and the CEO of the UK branch went to prison<\/p>\n

Quote from Bloom berg<\/p>\n

Albert Jack\u201d Stanley, the former KBR Inc. chief executive officer, was sentenced to 2 1\/2 years in prison for bribing Nigerian officials to win $6 billion in natural gas contracts for the company and its partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unquote<\/p>\n

This shows that \u00a0corruption is rampant everywhere, with only difference is they get caught and get punished quite fast<\/p>\n

Then In India former \u00a0\u00a0Indian railways minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has been sentenced to five years in prison in a notorious case known as the “fodder scam”.<\/p>\n

May be the trip to the west and India will give an insight to our leaders to catching\u00a0 thieves is the priority against the development drive and obtain their help to locate the stash , to negate the statement by Joint Opposition Catch me if you can like in the famous film where Leonardo DiCaprio acts<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Year 2014 was\u00a0 a turning point for the United National Party ( with no luck for \u00a0JVP) as a well-orchestrated plan was launched with the help of powerful \u00a0uncontestable and believable media drive with the help of some disgruntled politicians, artists \u00a0and journalists \u00a0\u00a0who have turned the wheel of the country\u2019s development […]<\/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-54644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54644","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=54644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}