Media institutions in crisis due to president’s decision!
Friday, 23 January 2015
President Maithripala Sirisena has banned, with immediate effect, state institutions from giving commercial advertisements to the media. This has been welcomed as a very good decision. However, this has left private media institutions in a serious financial crisis, say sources at these institutions.
In the past 10 years, state institutions hid their corruption and wastage from the public by giving commercial advertisements to private media institutions. When a certain person tried to get private media to carry, with evidence, a corrupt act by former Central Bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, he was told by the editors of these institutions, “We cannot lose a good account like the Central Bank by carrying this news.”
Understanding this, the president has put a stop to such things and ordered state institutions not to give commercial advertisements to the media. Social activists welcome this as one step forward towards ensuring that the people get to know the truth.
Police Spox Says MR Lied Over His Home Search
January 23, 2015
Ajith Rohana
Police Spokesman today implied that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa lied about his home being searched, when he rejected claims of MR’s home being searched by the Police.
Dismissing claims made by MR about his home in Tangalle being searched, SSP Ajith Rohana said that it was not his house located in Tangalle but the Carlton estate and hall in Weeraketiya that was searched in response to a tip-off received by the DIG in charge of the area, about a sea-plane and a Lamborghini held in the premises.
“The claims that are being made about the IGP’s involvement in this search is a blatant lie,” he added.
