{"id":59308,"date":"2016-10-02T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59308"},"modified":"2016-10-02T02:42:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T09:42:29","slug":"government-plays-deaf-and-dumb-on-shortcomings-of-yahaplana-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/02\/government-plays-deaf-and-dumb-on-shortcomings-of-yahaplana-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Government plays deaf and dumb on shortcomings of\u00a0 Yahaplana performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>People in the street ,workplace,over the internet ,trains and buses talk about inefficiency ,nepotism ,corruption ( at a lesser extent) ,failure of judicial system ( except in the case of slaying of an Ex MP) ,and turning blind eye on big time crooks freely walking around, politicians accused of bribery and corruption freely travelling abroad to move the stash to location which cannot be detected,<\/p>\n<p>VAT,SAITEM,GMOA,WIGGY,JOC,PURPETUAL,MEGAPOLIS,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THAJU DEEN AND LASANTHA etc etc are the most used words in the press and TV and people tend to forget or forced to lose memories about \u00a0almost 18 months of the Baby of Yahapalanaya<strong> .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is high time that we have a National Dialog ( jathika kathikawa) to analyse the performance and guide the rulers to get in to the right track before it is too late .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera People in the street ,workplace,over the internet ,trains and buses talk about inefficiency ,nepotism ,corruption ( at a lesser extent) ,failure of judicial system ( except in the case of slaying of an Ex MP) ,and turning blind eye on big time crooks freely walking around, politicians accused of bribery and corruption [&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-59308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59308","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=59308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}