{"id":55538,"date":"2016-06-13T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T00:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55538"},"modified":"2016-06-13T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T00:15:43","slug":"development-drive-and-the-fear-of-guillotine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/13\/development-drive-and-the-fear-of-guillotine\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVELOPMENT DRIVE AND THE\u00a0 FEAR OF\u00a0 GUILLOTINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I watch TV and read daily papers ,regarding many statements and promises issued by the Prime Minister ,obviously in good faith and he places the trust in executing the tasks given in\u00a0 his promises on \u00a0the state officials .<\/p>\n

It is regrettable to note that all chairmen of corporations or Accounting officers have any guts to implement the promises.<\/p>\n

I went to see a chairman today to get his approval to kick start a development project which has been approved by the cabinet after going thru a tedious process of various other reviews by other relevant agencies.<\/p>\n

I explained that we are ready to invest 25 Million US $\u00a0 in the project which will provide employment to the youth in the south and generate much needed foreign currency for the country .<\/p>\n

I was told by the chairman that Prime Minister has ordered to cancel all the approvals granted earlier and requested them to call fresh RFP\u2019s ( Request for Proposals) and obtain new proposals from new investors .<\/p>\n

I explained to him that this particular project will augment whatever RFP they intend to call for but he was not ready to listen<\/p>\n

He says that if he tries to defy the PM\u2019s orders he will get the Guillotine or if he survives he will be called to the other slaughter house called FCID.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya was such a musical word to all of us about 1 \u00bd years back and now it has become joke of the day .<\/p>\n

Few professional who somewhat support previous regime despite various allegations ask me with a sarcastic tone Hei How is Yahapalanaya?\u201d<\/p>\n

It was musical to me and now I despise to hear that word<\/p>\n

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

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I watch TV and read daily papers ,regarding many statements and promises issued by the Prime Minister ,obviously in good faith and he places the trust in executing the tasks given in\u00a0 his promises on \u00a0the state officials . It is regrettable to note that all chairmen of corporations or Accounting officers […]<\/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-55538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55538","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=55538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}