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(Lanka-e-News-05.Aug.2012, 7.30PM) The defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse, the bigwig of the Rajapakse regime and a citizen of the US had placed the country’s security in grave jeopardy owing to his avarice for personal selfish gains.
Without the approval of the SL security council or the Cabinet or the Parliament he had deployed employees of his personal security Company to engage in the war against the guerillas in Somalia.
Towards this end , the arms and weapons of the armory of SL Army have been used which action is absolutely unlawful. What is the right Gotabaya has to act so high handedly of his own accord and treat the SL national security and people’s so frivolously and uncaringly in order to achieve his self seeking aims?
Hereunder are details of this security betrayal.
Since 2005 the Somalia guerillas have been operating as sea pirates. The manner in which this threat spread by 2010 is depicted in the map hereunder . Today ,to those shipping Companies using the sea route this had become a big problem. The blue colored part in the Map are the main sea routes.
It is to be noted that SL ‘s defense secretary has exploited the perilous situation in the sea to supply security to the ships sailing in the risk laden zone by providing personnel employed in his Rakna Security Lanka service with a view to reaping huge profits.Before we proceed further let us throw some light on this Rakna security service. This was a private Co. incorporated under the private Companies Act 1987 section 17 .The chief of this Co. is none other than the defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse along with a Director Board. The others who are the chiefs holding main positions are pensioners Major General Palitha Fernando and Major general Egodawala who were undergoing training with Gotabaya during his training period in the army.
Egodawala was responsible for the Alimankade debacle during the war , and therefore received a punishment on that account from the military court. The Ratna security service Co. is not a semi Govt. Co. coming under the Parliamentary Act., though it has the regime’s patronage. It is a fully privately owned Co. If it was a semi Govt. establishment its financial affairs must be accountable to the Parliament select Committee (COPE) and to the Govt. Auditor General. This Co. on the other hand is completely owned by Gotabaya Rajapakse sans all these accountabilities and responsibilities.
In other words this Co. is an absolutely illegal Co. because a defense secretary who is holding a Govt. post cannot in law also hold a position in a private Co. Under the Companies’ act , this is a punishable offence ; even otherwise because there can be a conflict of interests , Gotabaya’s action is unethical .
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