{"id":60365,"date":"2016-11-02T22:43:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T04:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60365"},"modified":"2016-11-02T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:07:53","slug":"providing-security-services-on-outsourced-basis-2016-for-the-central-bank-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/02\/providing-security-services-on-outsourced-basis-2016-for-the-central-bank-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing Security Services on Outsourced Basis 2016 for the Central Bank of Sri Lanka."},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

2 November 1016<\/p>\n

Rt. Hon. Maithripala Sirisena
\nPresident of Sri Lanka
\nPresident\u2019s Secretariat
\nColombo 1, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Attn:\u00a0 Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy
\nGovernor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. President:<\/p>\n

Re: Providing Security Services on Outsourced Basis 2016 for the Central Bank of Sri Lanka<\/u>.<\/p>\n

On 08.09.2016, your Minister of Finance, Ravi Karunanayake has sought a favour (cronyism)<\/strong> for his friend Minister of Regional Development, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka from Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy, Governor of the Central Bank, in a letter written on 08.09.2016 (Ref:FA\/KADS\/E\/4093\/16)\u00a0 to consider the tender submission by Mr. Sarath Fonseka\u2019s son-in-law Mr. Danuna Tillakaratne, Director of United Guards Global (Pvt) Ltd, at Greenlands Lane, Colombo 5, for the above Security Services for the Central Bank, which is culpable of immorality, as the 24 gamme minissu<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 across the island when I asked them in February, kohomadha oya aluth arnduwa?\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 They all snickered and told me, Oya okkoma hora yakku mahaththaya<\/em><\/strong>!\u201d\u00a0 Little wonder!<\/p>\n

Mr. President, it is a fact that you are weighted down by an albatross necklace of rocks of \u00a0mindless stupidity of members of your Yahapalanaya government and especially by the Central Bank Bond Scandal, and you do not need another heavy rock added to your albatross necklace to bring your Yahapalanaya \u2018Good Governance\u2019 Government and you to your knees.\u00a0 Do you, now?<\/p>\n

The call is yours, Mr. President, to rein in the two Ministers and rap their knuckles hard and tell them you abhorred nepotism and cronyism of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s administration, \u00a0and that you will not tolerate such sordid, vile and unacceptable nonsense from the two Ministers from hence forth.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0And if it happens again that you will show them the door. It is your call Mr. President to keep your Yahapalanaya Government clean which has become tarnished in many ways and many times and they are beyond being white- washed.\u00a0 Your government is no more lily-white,<\/p>\n

And I will now take this opportunity to address Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy on this issue in this letter.<\/p>\n

Sir, as far as that letter of request by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake as a favour for his colleague Minister Sarath Fonseka, you got enough on your plate to clean up after the former Governor\u2019s \u00a0Bond scandal which is eating your institution \u00a0like \u00a0by thousands of grovelling hungry termites.\u00a0 You are in your right to tell these two Ministers to go and fly kites at Galle Face green and that you will not tolerate such political interference in your administration of the Central Bank.\u00a0 Let\u2019s show these Yahapalanaya Ministers that you hold high of your integrity and \u00a0independence that you have been entrusted to, and \u00a0that it will be up to you to make decisions for the good of your country.\u00a0 Let\u2019s have some honesty, Sir, let have some gumption.<\/p>\n

Thank you gentlemen,<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Asoka Weerasinghe<\/p>\n

(a concerned \u00a0and a passionate expat Sri Lankan)<\/p>\n

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 2 November 1016 Rt. Hon. Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka President\u2019s Secretariat Colombo 1, Sri Lanka. Attn:\u00a0 Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Dear Mr. President: Re: Providing Security Services on Outsourced Basis 2016 for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60365","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=60365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}