Jobs, Lies And Audio Tapes
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Keheliya Rambukwella
Last week, Gamini Abeyratne alias Taxi Abey telephoned me from the United Kingdom(listen to audio below). He was agitated and in more than three telephone conversations told me that Hudson Samarasinghe (Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) had telephoned him and asked, “if Frederica went with me to meet the President. I said I am in London and I’ll ask the President and say but I can’t tell anything at this moment.” (see box for transcript of telephone conversation).
A few days later on Thursday July 19, Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told a journalist from the daily Island newspaper that I was critical of Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa since he had prevented me from obtaining a diplomatic posting abroad, through the good offices of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, had told this journalist soon after the weekly post cabinet media briefing that I had met President Rajapaksa at Temple Trees recently, in the company of Gamini Abeyratne alias Taxi Abey and requested that I be posted abroad as a diplomat.
On May 6, last year I did meet with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. I did not seek this meeting or the previous one when I met with him.
A few days later on Thursday July 19, Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told a journalist from the daily Island newspaper that I was critical of Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa since he had prevented me from obtaining a diplomatic posting abroad, through the good offices of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, had told this journalist soon after the weekly post cabinet media briefing that I had met President Rajapaksa at Temple Trees recently, in the company of Gamini Abeyratne alias Taxi Abey and requested that I be posted abroad as a diplomat.
On May 6, last year I did meet with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. I did not seek this meeting or the previous one when I met with him.
