{"id":81135,"date":"2018-09-18T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81135"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:45:16","slug":"we-request-that-the-igp-be-removed-state-minister-sriyani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/18\/we-request-that-the-igp-be-removed-state-minister-sriyani\/","title":{"rendered":"We request that the IGP be removed &#8211; State Minister Sriyani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ajith Siriwardana\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>State Minister Sriyani Abeywickrame said yesterday TID&#8217;s DIG Nalaka Silva should be interdicted and arrested immediately over the alleged plot to kill President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>She told parliament that it was a serious matter and added that when there was an allegation involving criminal activity, what was done first was to interdict and arrest the person.<\/p>\n<p>She said they as government members, were not satisfied with the conduct of IGP Pujith Jayasundara.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We request that the IGP be removed and investigations initiated under a new IGP,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajith Siriwardana\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror State Minister Sriyani Abeywickrame said yesterday TID&#8217;s DIG Nalaka Silva should be interdicted and arrested immediately over the alleged plot to kill President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. She told parliament that it was a serious matter and added that when there was an allegation involving criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81135","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=81135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}