Don’t Let MR & RW To Insult Your Intelligence
By Nagananda Kodituwakku –July 20, 2015
Nagananda Kodituwakku
Why Mahinda Rajapaksa is deserved to be dumped again
MR destroyed people’s watchdogs to rob the wealth of the nation.
In 2001, a Constitutional Council (with five members appointed on the nominations of both the Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition) was setup by CBK’s 17th Amendment to ensure the independence of the watchdogs (Judiciary, Auditor General, Attorney General, Election Commission, Human Rights Commission, Corruption Commission, Finance Commission and The Delimitation Commission etc). These institutions were set up to ensure sovereign rights of the people transferred to the Executive and Legislature on a social contract, are duly exercised by them according to the Rule of Law.
In 2005, for the first time, Rajapaksa sought a mandate to become the Executive President. And he promised to abolish the Executive Presidency in the event elected to the office. But after he was elected to office what he did was completely the opposite. He established a firm grip of all the watchdogs with the replacement of the Constitutional Council with Parliamentary Council where all the members were MPs for the namesake. He simply became tyrant with all appointments to the watchdogs (including the judges to the Superior Courts) appointed, purely according to his whims and fancies.