{"id":97353,"date":"2020-01-06T23:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97353"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:44:56","slug":"need-for-a-presidential-royal-commission-on-judges-mps-ministers-prime-ministers-and-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/06\/need-for-a-presidential-royal-commission-on-judges-mps-ministers-prime-ministers-and-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"NEED  FOR A PRESIDENTIAL ROYAL COMMISSION ON JUDGES, MPs, MINISTERS, PRIME MINISTERS  AND PRESIDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It \nis funny to find if criminal cases have been used to be a stepping stone to \nsecure promotions&nbsp; using undue influence in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This \nis tarnishing the image of the Legislature, Judiciary and Executive.&nbsp; It is not \njust a case of instituting legal actions against certain personnel and punishing \nthe culprits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \nissues appear to be much broader than a storm in a teacup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A \nPresidential Commission with wide terms of references must be established, so \nthat the general public will be educated on the veracity of the nature of \nexisting climate, leading to corruption, collusion &nbsp;and nepotism within the \nmembers of the Legislature, Judiciary and Executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \nproposed Presidential Commission could be established immediately, whilst cases \nrelating to specific alleged offences could be processed&nbsp; simultaneously without \noverlapping with the PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The \nPresident Gotabaya Rajapakse has already won the hearts and minds of ordinary \nlaw abiding Sri Lankans.&nbsp; Therefore, he must call the \nCleaners.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE It is funny to find if criminal cases have been used to be a stepping stone to secure promotions&nbsp; using undue influence in Sri Lanka. This is tarnishing the image of the Legislature, Judiciary and Executive.&nbsp; It is not just a case of instituting legal actions against certain personnel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake","category-ranjangate-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97353","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=97353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}