{"id":73545,"date":"2018-01-07T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73545"},"modified":"2018-01-07T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:46:16","slug":"pm-wants-parliament-summoned-to-debate-bond-probe-report-calls-for-investigation-into-bonds-issued-from-2008-to-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/07\/pm-wants-parliament-summoned-to-debate-bond-probe-report-calls-for-investigation-into-bonds-issued-from-2008-to-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"PM wants parliament summoned to debate bond probe report Calls for investigation into bonds issued from 2008 to 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by Zacki Jabbar\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickreme-singhe said yesterday that he would request Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to summon Parliament fast to debate the Presidential Commission Report on the issuance of Treasury Bonds between February 2015 and March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the UNP\u2019s 70th anniversary celebrations at Campbell Park in Borella, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe stressed that the UNP was committed to upholding the rule of law and good governance. &#8220;I will ask the Speaker to convene Parliament as early as possible so that the House could discuss the Bond Commission Report,&#8221; the PM said, adding that an investigation into Treasury bonds issued between 2008 and 2014 should also be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe, on Friday, directed Central Bank Governor Indrajit Coomaraswamy to implement the Bond commission\u2019s recommendations.Yesterday, he urged the people to give the UNP a clear mandate at the forthcoming local government elections so that it could accelerate livelihood development programmes, increase employment opportunities for the youth, build more houses in the villages and ensure the overall development of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Concrete steps had been taken to ensure food security and reduce the cost of living further, the Prime Minister added. Even though the UNP and SLFP were contesting local government separately, they were committed to continuing with their National Unity government, the PM\u2008said.<\/p>\n<p>The UNP\u2019s Colombo District Organisation Chairman and former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, commenting on findings of the Treasury Bond Commission said that the Prime Minister nor he had done anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed answers to the allegations levelled, would be provided once a copy of the Original Report was released by the Presidents Office, he assured. &#8220;Those who had not run even a bulath kade are falsely trying to implicate the Prime Minister and me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Karunanayake said that the report did not hold him or Wickremesinghe personally responsible for the conduct of Perpetual Treasuries, though some Opposition politicians were trying hard to do so. He emphasised that the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government would continue their partnership, until the national agenda it had was fully carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zacki Jabbar\u00a0Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickreme-singhe said yesterday that he would request Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to summon Parliament fast to debate the Presidential Commission Report on the issuance of Treasury Bonds between February 2015 and March 2016. Addressing the UNP\u2019s 70th anniversary celebrations at Campbell Park in Borella, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe stressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73545","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=73545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}