Stanley Perera Emeritus Medical Researcher 2\/32 Chandler Road Noble Park Vic. 3174 Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n
AN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear President Gotabhaya Rajapakse, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Re-EXTORTION BY CABINET MINISTER GAMINI LOKUGE Stanley Perera Emeritus Medical Researcher 2\/32 Chandler Road Noble Park Vic. 3174 Australia. AN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT Dear President Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Re-EXTORTION BY CABINET MINISTER GAMINI LOKUGE The writer is an expatriate Sri Lankan residing in Melbourne, Australia who earned a name of patriotic writer during the time of war in Sri Lanka and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96162","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=96162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong> The writer is an expatriate Sri Lankan residing in Melbourne, Australia who earned a name of patriotic writer during the time of war in Sri Lanka and your time as the defence secretary.\u00a0 The writer was a front runner in challenging the International Community who conducted a smear campaign\u00a0 to tarnish the image of Mahinda Rajapakse Government’.\u00a0 It was an uphill battle for the patriotic Sri Lankans to counter propaganda campaign of bogus Tamil Refugees.\u00a0 Their activities were slowed down in the past Ranil Wickremasinghe Government.\u00a0 Since you became the President, it is seen an upsurge of Tamil propaganda activities all over the world.\u00a0 Australia’s ABC and SBS TV news media are presently engaged in a propaganda campaign to tarnish the image of Rajapakses.\u00a0 These news media are heavily\u00a0infiltrated by bogus Tamil Refugees in Australia and elsewhere.
In the year 2002, Gamini Lokuge extorted a sum of Rs.5,000,000 from the writer.\u00a0 At that time Lokuge was in the opposition.\u00a0 When Lokuge failed to return the money extorted from me\u00a0 when called for, I\u00a0 lodged a colmplaint with the Bribery and Corruption Commissioner Ranasinghe.\u00a0 Immediately thereafter, Lokuge crossed over to Mahinda Rajapakse Government.\u00a0 President Mahinda Rajapakse rewarded Gamini Lokuge with a cheque for\u00a0 a sum of rupees five million.\u00a0 Naturally, my complaint with the Bribery and Corruption Commission ended up up in the waste paper basket.\u00a0 Sunday Times published the matter in two full page article headed “FIVE MILLION RUPEE EXTORTION COME TO HAUNT LOKUGE’.\u00a0 The writer also complained to the Leader of the opposition Ranil Wickremasinghe<\/strong>.\u00a0 But it\u00a0\u00a0fell in the deaf ears of Wicremasinghe.\u00a0 Lokuge only paid me back Rs.200,000, Rs.25,000 and Rs.10,000 on three seperate occassions.
The writer also wrote to the\u00a0 Australian Foreign Affairs minister, Alexander Downer for healp to recover the extorted sum of money.\u00a0 Instead Downer dispatched a team of Fedderal Police to arreast me and frame charges on offering bribes to a foreign Official.
My dear President, using your so far unblemished good office, I earnestly urge you to retrieve from Gamini Lokuge’s state the extorted money and have it paid to me ASAP.\u00a0 This, I hope your Excellency consider as a priority.\u00a0 When this issue is resolved forthwith, I belive your constituents will\u00a0 aknowledge the confidence that placed on you in the Presidential election.\u00a0 Furthermore you will be considered as a leader with a\u00a0BACK BONE.<\/strong>
\u00a0<\/strong>As a quick fiz solution, may I please suggest you pay the said sum of rupees five million out of the Presidential fund for which you have the power as the Executive President of Sri Lanka.
<\/strong> The report of Sarath N de Silva commission appointed by former President Chandrika Kumaranatune revealed:\u00a0 it was Gamini Lokuge’s gun that was used to kill Vijaya Kumarfanatunga.\u00a0 Furthermore Gamini Lokuge was known as President Ranasinghe Premadasa’s hit man was also a notorious thug.\u00a0 Since you became the President of Sri Lanka, it is seen that Lokuge is getting too close to yourself.\u00a0 This association with you and including Lokuge in your maiden mini Cabinet does not look as a good omen to you.\u00a0 People are not happy about the formation of the mini cabinet.
While I congatulate you for the mandate you received, I make this forgoing submissions to you expecting your prompt action.
Long live my President Gotabhaya.
Yours Truly,
Stanley Perera <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"