{"id":93790,"date":"2019-10-11T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93790"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:11:17","slug":"the-niggers-in-the-woodpile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/11\/the-niggers-in-the-woodpile\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NIGGERS IN THE WOODPILE"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

With the statements issued recently by\nex solicitor general Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe and another former solicitor gen\nSuhada Gamlath, it is very clear that there had been a cabal of vicious\nMinisters , the supportive politicians and government servants working in hand\nand glove under Yahapalanya Plan who were involved in a political witch hunt\nthrowing all government procedures etc overboard and causing massive financial\nexpenditure to the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the formation of Yahapalanaya\ngovernment in 2015, an advisory committee was appointed to plan and implement a\nprogram of its activities. The committee included Ranil, Chandrika, Champika, Rajitha,\nAnura Kumar, Sumanthrian and Hakeem which was known as National Executive\nCommittee, One of the first decision made by the committee is to plan a\nstrategy to punish all who belonged to to the opposition Camp by investigating their\nacts of corruption and misdemeanours. To enable the committee to enlist the\nsupport of the NGOs etc another committee was appointed which came to be known\nas \u2018Anti-corruption committee secretariat\u2019. The person who headed the committee\nwas Ananda Wijepala who was Anura Kumara\u2019s personal secretary when he was the\nMinister of Agriculture. The fact that its office was situated in the Temple\nTrees complex speaks of the important role assigned to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was so powerful that the ministers\nwho were members were working round the clock in submitting petitions to the\nBribery commission and also to the CID. It was instrumental in the looking into\nthe alleged misuse of government funds and submitted reports to the\norganizations which were examining Financial Frauds. Some of the members were\nseen carrying these files themselves and lodging complaints and issuing public\nthreats to the persons alleged to have committed the misdeeds and the official\nin these organizations and especially the law enforcing authorities in the\nPolice department and the Attorney General\u2019s Department. They were successful\nin forming a supportive unit in the CID which worked tirelessly to nab the\npolitical opponents of the Government, Unfortunately, there were loop holes in\nthe fabricated cases and they were to a large extent failed in the pursuits for\nlast 5 years!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, about a month ago the revelations\nby Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe, the then Solicitor General and the former Bribery\nCommissioner that she regretted the unjust actions taken by herself with regard\nto the destructions of Avant Grade Co and its executives due to nasty\npoliticians, hit the nail on the head of these questionable operations as it\ncame to the public eye that there \u2018were ministers and the politicians\u2019 who were\ncontrolling the implementation of the law which is a judicial function. Avant\nGarde was a high profit earning venture which crated job opportunities for\nnearly 1500 persons and adding 16.4 dollar billions to Sri Lankan economy from\n2011 and 2015. As one of the very first unlawful political operations conducted\nby the Yahapalanya government to achieve a personal vendetta ,it resulted in a\ncolossal  loss to the country as well to\nthe employees of Avant Garde, This issue must be taken up by a responsible\ngovernment to recover the losses while punishing the guilty who were playing a\npolitical game using the country\u2019s resources and it\u2019s time. It has to be\nmentioned that many Government personnel were compelled to spend time in implementing\ntheir vicious plan of political revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To add insult to the injury another\nformer Solicitor General, Shuada Gamlath and presently the Chairman of NAPVW dropped\nanother bombshell by end September when he revealed the names of prominent\nactivist Ministers and a former high \nofficial of Bar Association  who\nwere involved in pressurizing Mr Gamalth to take illegal  steps to arrest illegally, Gotabaya Rajapakse\nand several others in connection with  Avant Garde issue which he resisted, and,\nresulted in him not receiving the due promotion as the Attorney General,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above serious comments made by two\nformer Solicitor Generals on the undue and unethical interference in the law\nenforcing situations have to treated with the seriousness which it deserves to\nbe probed further to seek compensation from the irresponsible individuals for\nwasting public funds and their attempts to ride the donkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RANJITH SOYSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA With the statements issued recently by ex solicitor general Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe and another former solicitor gen Suhada Gamlath, it is very clear that there had been a cabal of vicious Ministers , the supportive politicians and government servants working in hand and glove under Yahapalanya Plan who were involved in a political witch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93790","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=93790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}