{"id":81697,"date":"2018-10-05T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81697"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:23:05","slug":"mr-president-you-are-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/05\/mr-president-you-are-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. President, You ARE\u00a0 the President!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter to the editor:\u00a0Sent by:Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwala<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Dear President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka!<\/p>\n

You have been putting goals on your own side these days.\u00a0 You criticizing the nuts in your own national career Srilankan, berating\u00a0 your own police force in spite of the relevant Minister assuring the crime rates have gone down or lamenting that a case in the courts take too long to complete \u2013 begs the 60 mission dollar question to whom is the president complaining?\u201d and who are you expecting to handle these matters? These are matters \u2013 if at all – \u00a0that should have been raised by the opposition. Not that they are just sitting and waiting either. They are busy unsettling your government and why are you feeding ammunition to them?<\/p>\n

Remember? You are the president!\u00a0 You were elected to manage these matters \u2013 be it the Chinese involvement in building the Greater Colombo, the rupee value falling \u00a0or your subjects eating murunga leaves to survive, it is you to whom the people turn to solve. It si you who took the responsibility over. Whether you do it yourself like changing the nuts in the aeroplane, or delegate the duty to others is a matter you are supposed to decide. Complaining about these matters in public is like looking up and spitting. All the officers concerned are people working for you and you have absolute authority over them. Why are you berating them in public? It obviously\u00a0 indicates \u00a0poor management.<\/p>\n

You seem to be having a very inexperienced public relations officer whoever that may be, who is letting absolutely trivial matters that you say to get into the press and make a fool of you. Why isn\u2019t he getting any of your statements \u2013 that is if you are making such statements – regarding cost of living, future plans or even the oncoming election \u2013 published?\u00a0 It is time you changed\u00a0 who is giving your statements to the press.<\/p>\n

Remember Mr. President, for at least another one year and odd number of months you are OUR \u00a0President and we want you to solve the problems, not to tell us the problems. We are very much aware of them. Much more than you\u2019ll ever imagine!<\/p>\n

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Letter to the editor:\u00a0Sent by:Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,\u00a0Dehiwala Dear President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka! You have been putting goals on your own side these days.\u00a0 You criticizing the nuts in your own national career Srilankan, berating\u00a0 your own police force in spite of the relevant Minister assuring the crime rates have gone […]<\/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-81697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81697","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=81697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}