Harakiri Or ‘Kiri’ For Gota? President Is ‘Misguided’ By His Own Intelligence
October 16, 2016
Hell broke loose when President Sirisena expressed his displeasure over top three Naval officers and ex defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa – war heroes were taken to the Colombo Courts but what ails president to speak so?
Maithripala
The man who said if anyone proved to be corrupt and substantiated with evidence, he will not spare them. But the President was annoyed and angry for questioning veteran senior politician M H M Fowzie or misuse of state vehicles.
He blamed the CID, FCID, and the Bribery Commission for working based on political agendas and ‘not complying to be independent’.
The President told that last year also military officers were taken for questioning and he expressed his displeasure.
“Few Weeks ago too, the CID took three top Navy officers who fought the war to courts. I was totally against that action,” he told the audience gathered at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on October 12,
He said, he sees that the Independent Commissions should be focused and maintain ethics and policies, should know their limitations and areas of work as well.
He pointed out that he was not informed about former defence Secretary Gota taken to Colombo Magistrate last week where he was detained for few hours before he was released on bail.
“If there is an issue regarding Avant Garde and Defence Ministry involved, there is a way to probe. There is a method to follow on such cases. As the executive President I was not informed about Gotabaya being taken to courts and bailed later on,” the President asserted.
Gotabaya and six others was detained in connection to Avant Garde case in Colombo Courts for few hours before Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya granted bail and released them last week.
President also pointed out that couple of military officials who are in police custody for more than 10 months and their cases are not being heard. “When I inquired, initially they said its only for two weeks. After two weeks they said 3 months will be needed. Then it went up to 16 months.”
President also pointed out that couple of military officials who are in police custody for more than 10 months and their cases are not being heard. “When I inquired, initially they said its only for two weeks. After two weeks they said 3 months will be needed. Then it went up to 16 months.”
He stressed that if these officials have found guilty, then a case should be filed.”If no case against them release them or grant bail and continue with the probe,” he added.
He said he did not want to bring this matter but now he had to. He pointed out that we should be responsible and these are human rights violations. The FCID CID and BC cannot work on political agendas.
The point is, why not probe? Whose political agendas is the President talking about and what’s upsetting him actually?
According to inside sources President is being ‘fed’ with information that is triggering all these chaos.
Apparently, some group is watching on the coming events and informing the President who in return is ‘watching’ how certain officials conduct themselves and the parameters they use when dealing with the VIP cases.
Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption Mrs. Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe seems to be ‘leaking’ news to the media every time she meets the President. This has been told to him.
