{"id":65654,"date":"2017-04-29T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65654"},"modified":"2017-04-29T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:47:56","slug":"sarath-fonseka-the-pied-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/29\/sarath-fonseka-the-pied-piper\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarath Fonseka \u2013The Pied Piper ???"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garbage disaster \u2013CM faults Prez,PM and minister \u2026\u2026.<\/strong>News item<\/span><\/h2>\n

Appearing on Sirasa Pathikada anchored by Bandula Jayasekera yesterday morning Devapriya faulted the high powered ministerial committee that included both President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for the crisis. At the onset of yahapalana administration, Premier Wickremesinghe headed the committee. Subsequently, President Maithripala Sirisena joined the decision making outfit responsible for advising the cabinet of ministers.<\/p>\n

Devapriya alleged that the committee had handed over the management of the Meethotamulla garbage dump to Megapolis and Western Development Ministry headed by yahapalana heavyweight Patali Champika Ranawaka at the expense of a well studied project backed by the Central Environment Authority as well as the Waste Management Authority.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I wonder whether finding a\u00a0 scapegoat for this disaster will help to solve the problem. We have a calamity situation and garbage is now\u00a0 transported to Muthurajawela were CMC is dumping the 7-800 tons in the\u00a0 200acre land which I identified earlier as a suitable location .<\/p>\n

My proposal given which given 2 years back .was\u00a0 to use dry garbage from Meethotamulle to fill the 200 acre land with combination of sea sand which is already available in the site. UDA .CMC and Megapolis should have agreed to that ,and ,this disaster could have been avoided .<\/p>\n

After part clearing of Meethotalmulle to accommodate baling raw garbage could have been\u00a0 carried out\u00a0 in situ and send to Muthurawela for\u00a0 storage until Processing Units are installed by Koreans and other investors.( Western power who was given the right to process has not been able attract an investor so far and the original promoter during previous government has sold the project to a blue chip company ,which is more keen to generate liquor rather than processing garbage )<\/p>\n

I sent this proposal to CM also .None of them took notice<\/p>\n

Now CM and Ministers are\u00a0 trying to pass the buck will not solve the problem<\/p>\n

CM\u00a0 is also talking about CECM chaired by PM and blame them for\u00a0 disregarding his proposal to use a UK based company to take over garbage project .He should have implemented what I proposed\u00a0 instead .<\/p>\n

GARBAGE DISPOSAL EMERGENCY SITUATION AND ACTION PLAN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n