Using GL as bait Namal attempts at premiership!
- Tuesday, 29 October 2013 13:
President’s senior son, MP
Namal Rajapaksa is getting ready to test himself in the position of prime minister by getting one of his stooges, external affairs minister Prof. Gamini Lakshman (G.L.) Peiris, appointed the premier, according to sources at Nil Balakaya. The president has decided to sack incumbent D.M. Jayaratne, owing to the antagonism between them, but he is finding it difficult to choose a successor.
The proposal of appointing the eldest brother, speaker Chamal Rajapaksa, has been abandoned due to objections by the president’s family members. The president was forced to dump the idea owing to the Uva province chief minister Shashindra Rajapaksa and MP Namal Rajapaksa not seeing eye to eye. Looking for an alternative, MP Namal Rajapaksa has suggested the name of G.L. Peiris.
The president has sanctioned the proposal in light of the fact that the world’s leading authority on the law of delict, Prof. G.L. Peiris is calling Namal Rajapaksa, a legal novice, ‘sir’. Some days ago, MP Namal Rajapaksa had summoned Prof. Peiris and said, “G.L. If you are ready to do as I say, I can make you the prime minister.” The conceited junior had not had the civility to at least call the professor, his senior by many decades, as ‘uncle.’ Drooling at the carrot thrown at him, Prof. G.L. Peiris, who has sold his integrity and soul for politics, has said, “Sir, what do you want me to do?”
Taking full advantage of the unmanly G.L. Peiris, MP Namal Rajapaksa has tasked him with the speeding up of the cases filed against his politician friends at many courts in the island to their advantage. Accepting the order by both hands, the professor has already set himself to the task. It is none other than him who is advising the attorney general on how to proceed with the criminal case against Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha chairman Sampath Vidanapathirana and six others over the murder of British tourist Khurram Shaikh. In order to save their skins, the AG and other senior officials of the department are making entries in documents secretly that they had been ordered so by Prof. G.L. Peiris. Even if an independent, impartial investigation is conducted in the future, all the Rajapaksas will be cleared and it is a lonely Prof. G.L. Peiris who will have to count the iron bars in his prison cell.
- Tuesday, 29 October 2013 13:
President’s senior son, MP The proposal of appointing the eldest brother, speaker Chamal Rajapaksa, has been abandoned due to objections by the president’s family members. The president was forced to dump the idea owing to the Uva province chief minister Shashindra Rajapaksa and MP Namal Rajapaksa not seeing eye to eye. Looking for an alternative, MP Namal Rajapaksa has suggested the name of G.L. Peiris.
The president has sanctioned the proposal in light of the fact that the world’s leading authority on the law of delict, Prof. G.L. Peiris is calling Namal Rajapaksa, a legal novice, ‘sir’. Some days ago, MP Namal Rajapaksa had summoned Prof. Peiris and said, “G.L. If you are ready to do as I say, I can make you the prime minister.” The conceited junior had not had the civility to at least call the professor, his senior by many decades, as ‘uncle.’ Drooling at the carrot thrown at him, Prof. G.L. Peiris, who has sold his integrity and soul for politics, has said, “Sir, what do you want me to do?”
Taking full advantage of the unmanly G.L. Peiris, MP Namal Rajapaksa has tasked him with the speeding up of the cases filed against his politician friends at many courts in the island to their advantage. Accepting the order by both hands, the professor has already set himself to the task. It is none other than him who is advising the attorney general on how to proceed with the criminal case against Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha chairman Sampath Vidanapathirana and six others over the murder of British tourist Khurram Shaikh. In order to save their skins, the AG and other senior officials of the department are making entries in documents secretly that they had been ordered so by Prof. G.L. Peiris. Even if an independent, impartial investigation is conducted in the future, all the Rajapaksas will be cleared and it is a lonely Prof. G.L. Peiris who will have to count the iron bars in his prison cell.
Army officer as 2nd in command in SIS
- Tuesday, 29 October 2013
The Defence Secretary is going to appoint a lieutenant colonel in the Army as the second in command of the State Intelligence Service (SIS). The appointment is going to be made in January, reports said.Functioning under the Defence Ministry and the Police, the SIS is a civilian outfit and never had Army personnel as its top officials before. Therefore, the impending appointment by the Defence Secretary is deemed a militarization of the SIS, some of its officials have alleged.
Certain officials of the police too, have discussed the militarization of the police, tasked with civilian affairs, and its units in this manner as a serious precedent by the Defence Secretary who is militarizing the entire country.
Nevertheless, a lieutenant colonel of the Army is going to be appointed the second in command of the SIS in an attempt to get its reports to serve the wants of the government, which has not been the case so far.
