Rajapaksa family tree is at Temple Trees, not at Sirikotha – lawyer Nissanka Nanayakkara

 Sunday, 04 January 2015 

Lawyer Nissanka Nayakakkara, legal advisor to UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, told CID officers who had gone to Sirikotha armed with a search warrant today (03), “It is useless to come to Sirikotha to see the Rajapaksa family tree. If you all go to Temple Trees, you will see with your own eyes the Rajapaksa family tree.”

After reading the open search warrant, the lawyer told the CID men that they cannot use it to search the UNP headquarters, as it does not mention the place to be searched. Even unwillingly, the CID agreed with that argument.

The CID director has told the secretary to the ministry of law and peace, “250 out of the 300 sent for the raid were UNPers. 40 others are Maithripala’s men. The other 10 too, are uncertain. The other thing is that the boys do not want to interfere in such things and get FR cases filed against them. Sir, even we too, should act carefully at this moment.” Ministry secretary Mahinda Balasuriya listened to that without uttering a word.

A CID officer who gave these details to Lanka News Web said the aim of the raid was not to find the Rajapaksa family tree, but to ascertain rumours that two leading government politicians were at Sirikotha.

Anyhow, he said, that if no search takes place before 4.00 pm according to the law, an unlawful entry could take place thereafter.