Govt. MPs report Auditor General to Prime Minister

By Saman Indrajith-July 18, 2016

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to ask Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe why the latter has failed to audit ministries where massive frauds allegedly took place during the previous government.

Prime Minister Wickremesinghe promised a group of senior ministers that he would summon the Auditor General for a meeting and inquire from him why he had failed to complete the auditing of the aforesaid ministries.

The Prime Minister said so when he met a group of senior ministers before leaving for Singapore to attend the Third South Asia Diaspora Convention.

The MPs produced a list of ministries which had not been audited for years. Among them are the Ministries of Economic Development, Housing Construction and

Engineering Services, Cooperatives and Internal Trade, External Affairs, Transport, Lands, Power and Energy, Vocational Training and Skills Development, Sports and Indigenous Medicine, according to government sources.

Our attempts to contact Auditor General Wijesinghe were not successful as he was attending a meeting. Additional Auditor General, too, was not available for comments as he, too, was attending a meeting related to Committee on Public Enterprises.