JHU questions CID
July 24, 2014
Why MPs not probed yet on drug dealings?
BY Ruwan Laknath Jayakody
Leader of the Jathika Hela Urumaya, Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobitha Thera, yesterday (23) asked why the Criminal Investigation Department and the intelligence services were not investigating allegations that MPs and Ministers were connected to the drug trade.
He added that though large consignments of narcotic opiates coming in from Pakistan, were being seized, only two-bit hustlers were arrested, while kingpins and masterminds of the operation, who are politicians, remain free.
"What about the consignments that come which the Police and the Customs are not able to detect?" he questioned.
Sobitha Thera opined that there was no transparency in the investigations into the drugs hauls that were being confiscated.
"What happens to the drugs? What is the state of the cases? Are they in Court? Where are the politicians involved?
Are other senior associates of these politicians punished or remanded or have they been promoted to other ministries? In the name of national security and the reputation of the country the relevant authorities should look into the nexus between MPs and the drug trade, otherwise those living outside will think we are a nation that survives by ingesting drugs," the Thera lamented.
Exec. Presidency cause of all evil – Sobhitha Thera
BY NIRANJALA ARIYAWANSHA-July 24, 2014
Venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera says the President is ruling the country in an arbitrary manner using his executive powers and not taking into account the Judiciary and the Constitution, which is the holy law of a country.
Sobhitha Thera said the Commissioner of Elections is only a figurehead, with no powers under an Executive President, and due to this the public has lost confidence in the elections process.
"When the elections process loses its credibility, people try to take arms into their hands."
Sobhitha Thera was speaking at a media briefing organized by the 'People's Movement' for a fair society, at the Naga Vihara in Kotte.
"It is the SLFP who opposed the Executive Presidency. But the SLFP is now silent although all political parties claim the Executive Presidency should be abolished. We demand the SLFP reveal to the people if it has changed its policies. From the President down to councillors of Pradeshiya Sabhas, presidential powers are misused. They are not accountable or responsible to anyone. Politicians had cut trees in about hundred thousand acres of lands in our country.
All this is due to the Executive Presidency," Sobhitha Thera said.
He said a signature campaign demanding the abolition of Executive Presidency will be launched today (24) at New Town Hall, Colombo.
July 24, 2014 Why MPs not probed yet on drug dealings?
BY Ruwan Laknath Jayakody
Leader of the Jathika Hela Urumaya, Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobitha Thera, yesterday (23) asked why the Criminal Investigation Department and the intelligence services were not investigating allegations that MPs and Ministers were connected to the drug trade.
He added that though large consignments of narcotic opiates coming in from Pakistan, were being seized, only two-bit hustlers were arrested, while kingpins and masterminds of the operation, who are politicians, remain free.
"What about the consignments that come which the Police and the Customs are not able to detect?" he questioned.
Sobitha Thera opined that there was no transparency in the investigations into the drugs hauls that were being confiscated.
"What happens to the drugs? What is the state of the cases? Are they in Court? Where are the politicians involved?
Are other senior associates of these politicians punished or remanded or have they been promoted to other ministries? In the name of national security and the reputation of the country the relevant authorities should look into the nexus between MPs and the drug trade, otherwise those living outside will think we are a nation that survives by ingesting drugs," the Thera lamented.
Exec. Presidency cause of all evil – Sobhitha Thera
BY NIRANJALA ARIYAWANSHA-July 24, 2014
Venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera says the President is ruling the country in an arbitrary manner using his executive powers and not taking into account the Judiciary and the Constitution, which is the holy law of a country.Sobhitha Thera said the Commissioner of Elections is only a figurehead, with no powers under an Executive President, and due to this the public has lost confidence in the elections process.
"When the elections process loses its credibility, people try to take arms into their hands."
Sobhitha Thera was speaking at a media briefing organized by the 'People's Movement' for a fair society, at the Naga Vihara in Kotte.
"It is the SLFP who opposed the Executive Presidency. But the SLFP is now silent although all political parties claim the Executive Presidency should be abolished. We demand the SLFP reveal to the people if it has changed its policies. From the President down to councillors of Pradeshiya Sabhas, presidential powers are misused. They are not accountable or responsible to anyone. Politicians had cut trees in about hundred thousand acres of lands in our country.
All this is due to the Executive Presidency," Sobhitha Thera said.
He said a signature campaign demanding the abolition of Executive Presidency will be launched today (24) at New Town Hall, Colombo.
