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First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Sunday, November 24, 2013

An Institution Under Gota Has Not Submitted Rs 489 Million Fixed Asset Register


Colombo TelegraphAn institution under the Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Gotabaya Rajapaksa had not prepared the Fixed Asses Register amounted 489 million a parliamentry committee found.
Gotabaya - Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
The Committee on Public Enterprises noted in its latest report to the Parliament that the Fixed Asset Register of the Defence Service Command and Staff College had not been prepared although the value of fixed assets amounted nearly to Rs.489,179,923 /-.
The Committee also noted;  ”around 40 vehicles received from Sri Lanka Army, SL. Navy, SL Air Force and the Ministry of Defence had not been legally transferred to the Institution. The annual reports of the College for years 2010 and 2011 had not been presented in Parliament. The College had not maintained the ratio of 2:1, which should exist between the Current Assets and the Current Liabilities. “
(Lanka-e-News-24.Nov.2013, 8.00PM) The mendacious and hypocritical Rajapakses from whose mouths never a lie fails to drop each time they open their mouths , and who do lip service to patriotism and the forces who won the war were well and truly exposed when the disabled soldiers filed action in the appeal court against Gotabaya the SL defense secretary and the Army commander . The appeal court day before yesterday (22) which examined the petitions filed by 292 disabled soldiers on the ground that their compensations that were promised had not been duly paid issued notice on the respondents cited in the petition , namely , Army commander Daya Ratnayake, defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse , and 5 others.

The petition is to be heard on 20 th January 2014.

A A S K Abeysinghe and the other petitioners have stated in the petition that though their sorrows and sufferings have been conveyed in writing to the President Mahinda Rajapkse , the defense secretary and the army commander , the petitioners have received no proper response , and therefore they are compelled to seek legal redress.
Among the petitioners there are many soldiers who have gone on pension some time ago on account of their disabled condition resulting from the war. Soldiers who are disabled and still on light duty are also among the petitioners.

The petition had requested court to issue a writ ordering the army commander and the respondents to pay the compensations due to the petitioners duly.

J C Weliamuna , the attorney at law, appeared on behalf of the petitioners.