{"id":94359,"date":"2019-10-27T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94359"},"modified":"2019-10-27T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:07:36","slug":"president-denies-allegations-of-allocating-rs-8-bn-for-his-personal-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/27\/president-denies-allegations-of-allocating-rs-8-bn-for-his-personal-use\/","title":{"rendered":"President denies allegations of allocating Rs 8 bn for his personal use"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Office of the President has categorically denied the allegations made by Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath that an amount of Rs 8 billion has been allocated for the personal use and future endeavors of the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office of the President, issuing a statement with this regard, stated that the relevant allegations are completely false and baseless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, media reported that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP, at a press conference held on the 25th of October, had stated that another Rs 2.4 billion has been allocated for the President through an interim account of parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President\u2019s Office emphasizes that no President who holds office or has held office will be financed for personal use and that money will only be allocated to the President\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large portion of the money allocated for the President\u2019s Expenditure Head was used to finance the Presidential Task Forces and development programs that are currently underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stating that no financial allocations have been made for the personal consumption of the President, President\u2019s Office stated that such malicious accusations are firmly rejected by the Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Office of the President has categorically denied the allegations made by Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath that an amount of Rs 8 billion has been allocated for the personal use and future endeavors of the President. The Office of the President, issuing a statement with this regard, stated that the relevant allegations are completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94359","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=94359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}