Meet Motor Vehicle Commissioner Madam Poshitha, to get work done without an owner

Thursday, 10 January 2013 

Motor Vehicle Department Commissioner Poshitha Abeysirigunawardena it is learnt is engaged in accepting bribers openly from persons who visit the Department for work related to motor vehicle registration.

She charges amounts starting from Rs. 10,000 to carry out registration work of motor vehicles in the absence of the owners of the respective vehicles. Officers of Sri Lanka’s Administrative Service have expressed their disgust at the conduct of this female official.

Poshitha Abeysirigunawardena had earlier worked at the Department for the Registration of Persons before assuming office at the Motor Vehicle Department. She had been engaged in similar activities even while serving at the Department for the Registration of Persons. She is second in command at the Motor Vehicles Department and is the head of the department’s administration. However, most of her time is consumed accepting bribes and the administrative work at the Department has been hit by it.

None of the employees at the departments she had served have dared expressed their displeasure at her conduct since her husband serves at the Sri Lanka Police. Poshitha Abeysirigunawardena is the wife of DIG Jagath Abeysirigunawardena, who is in-charge of the North Central Division.

There have been many complaints against Poshitha Abeysirigunawardena made to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption. However, officials at the Commission have refrained from taking any action against Poshitha Madam since it would irk the DIG.