{"id":61292,"date":"2016-12-10T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61292"},"modified":"2016-12-10T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T19:46:07","slug":"president-maithripala-sirisena-finally-admitted-that-the-tender-procedures-in-sri-lanka-are-in-deep-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/10\/president-maithripala-sirisena-finally-admitted-that-the-tender-procedures-in-sri-lanka-are-in-deep-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"President Maithripala Sirisena finally admitted that the Tender procedures\u00a0in Sri Lanka \u00a0are \u00a0in deep corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lanka News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0who, decades ago, had benefited himself from the very same corrupted tender procedure , and instrumental in award of an international loan to his own brother \u00a0for upgrade of rice milling facilities at Polonnaruwa, \u00a0finally accepted that the Sri Lankan tender procedure has been prone to massive corruption.<\/p>\n

President further said yesterday if a few of the prominent State institutions could overcome corruption and large-scale frauds and send that revenue to the Treasury, the country’s budget deficit could be bridged.<\/p>\n

The President made this remark addressing the Anti-Corruption Summit held at Hotel Taj Samudra in Colombo.
\nHe said, the country’s tender process is still over 50 per cent corrupt and its responsibility has to be borne by those……officials holding top positions in the government.<\/p>\n

The President also stated that Tender Boards and Technical Evaluation Committees (TEC) tend to provide undue advantages to their friends in a tender process.<\/p>\n

“This is not a secret anymore. When it is claimed that a procurement process is not structured, they suggest that it should be subjected to a tender process. However, some of those officials holding top positions in the State invariably intervene and award those tenders to their friends etc,” said President Sirisena.<\/p>\n

He stated that it was wrong for Ministers to get embroiled in any tender process but that is exactly what some of them do.
\nHe deplored the fact that certain heads of State institutions have come to the stage of not taking responsibility anymore for administrative issues in their institutions.<\/p>\n

“When something is going to be done, some of those heads say that they cannot take responsibility for such decisions. They are fearful of being summoned to the FCID. But, in my view if those heads can take correct decisions according to their conscience then they do not have to be concerned about having to go before the FCID.”<\/p>\n

He added that in one way he was pleased to see certain heads of such institutions being fearful of being to the FCID.
\nHe noted that the onus was now on State officials to perform their duties in the correct and accepted manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sri Lanka News President Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0who, decades ago, had benefited himself from the very same corrupted tender procedure , and instrumental in award of an international loan to his own brother \u00a0for upgrade of rice milling facilities at Polonnaruwa, \u00a0finally accepted that the Sri Lankan tender procedure has been prone to massive corruption. President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sirisena","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61292","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=61292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}