{"id":77396,"date":"2018-05-15T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T22:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77396"},"modified":"2018-05-15T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T22:07:52","slug":"rule-of-law-gone-to-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/15\/rule-of-law-gone-to-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule of law gone to jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Decisive Chief Executive is a must for a company ,conglomerate or a country .When you run any of above your decision making cultue and sustaining the decisions made and continue to apply the rules helps to go forward .<\/p>\n<p>What is happening in Sri Lanka is quite opposite, We have an Executive President who promised to lead the country by imposing new laws or by strengthening the rules. Enhanced publicity given in such instances were commended by the public<\/p>\n<p>As examples you have heard about following .<\/p>\n<p>Banning Glycophopate<\/p>\n<p>Banning Polythene<\/p>\n<p>Banning filling of paddy lands<\/p>\n<p>Banning blocking out coconut estates<\/p>\n<p>Imposing enhanced fines for traffic offence<\/p>\n<p>Imposing lane culture along roads<\/p>\n<p>Impose driving discipline by Tuk Tuks<\/p>\n<p>Prohibition of Sunday tuition classes<\/p>\n<p>Prohibition of wearing covered helmets by motorcyclists<\/p>\n<p>Cutting down ministers<\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of NEPOTISM such as not allowing ministes\u2019 relatives to the administration<\/p>\n<p>Transparency in awarding tenders<\/p>\n<p>Giving cheap fertilizer<\/p>\n<p>Providing guaranteed prize for paddy<\/p>\n<p>Reducing Crime rate<\/p>\n<p>And finally<\/p>\n<p>LOCKING UP CORRUPTED POLITICIANS AND MURDERS<\/p>\n<p>During the eve of last election\u00a0 Educated people wanted to get rid of the regime badly .<\/p>\n<p>Today same educated people wants same regime and flock around a future leader who can be a tyrant and decision maker \/\u201dEnforcer <\/p>\n<p>Shangrila Conference may be a stepping stone and I feel that we may need another\u00a0 Progressive tyrant like Premadasa ?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Decisive Chief Executive is a must for a company ,conglomerate or a country .When you run any of above your decision making cultue and sustaining the decisions made and continue to apply the rules helps to go forward . What is happening in Sri Lanka is quite opposite, We have an Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396","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=77396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}