Rajapaksa govt.’s hi-tech wiretapping devices seized – Harin

Digital Infrastructure Minister Harin Fernando addressing the media flanked by State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene at "Sirikotha" yesterday. Pic by Sujatha Jayaratne

by Zacki Jabbar-August 3, 2016, 9:53 pm 

Hi-tech equipment imported by the Rajapaksa regime meant for tapping telephones had been seized the government said yesterday.

Digital Infrastructure Minister Harin Fernando, addressing a press conference in Colombo, said that the equipment costing US$ 150,000 would be returned to the supplier since the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration has no need for such devices.

The Rajapaksas had spent the greater part of their ten years in power, spying on the people and Opposition members while filling their pockets and imposing economic hardships on the people, Minister Fernando noted.

The Minister said that they were doing their best to reduce the cost of living while repaying the massive high interest loans that the previous government had taken from private foreign banks.

"In keeping with our election pledge to take modern technology to the villages, 400 WiFi centres would be established in various parts of the country by November 1", he added.