{"id":61997,"date":"2017-01-02T20:40:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T02:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61997"},"modified":"2018-07-29T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:28:34","slug":"to-catch-a-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/02\/to-catch-a-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"TO CATCH A THIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Sugath Samarasinghe<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The attached article was sent to &#8216;The Island&#8217;. But they did not carry it. _sugath<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>TO CATCH A THIEF<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who brought the Central Bank which was under the Ministry of Finance, under his own Ministry ?<\/li>\n<li>Who was it that who brought a man, a non-citizen, from Singapore and made him the Governor of the Central Bank when there were several qualified persons locally, fit enough to take up that job? And why did he do that?<\/li>\n<li>When that man robbed the Bank in no time, who was it that appointed a team from his own Political Party to look into the matter?<\/li>\n<li>When the President tried to remove the Bank Robber who tried to obstruct him? And why?<\/li>\n<li>When the Bank Robber was eventually thrown out, who posted him to the Finance Ministry?<\/li>\n<li>During the COPE Committee deliberations on the Auditor General\u2019s report on the Robbery, whose acolytes threw their might to scuttle the Committee\u2019s efforts to arrive at the truth?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When all this failed and the COPE report was presented in Parliament, who was it that usurped the task of the Speaker to refer the report direct to the Attorney General in a last ditch effort to subvert legal action?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Who is it that wants to save the Robber from punishment ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Considering all this conduct, surely one doesn\u2019t need to be Sherlock Homes identify the Main Culprit ?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Sugath Samarasinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugath Samarasinghe The attached article was sent to &#8216;The Island&#8217;. But they did not carry it. _sugath TO CATCH A THIEF Who brought the Central Bank which was under the Ministry of Finance, under his own Ministry ? Who was it that who brought a man, a non-citizen, from Singapore and made him the Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sugath-samarasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61997","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=61997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}