Barrier cleared, AG’s Department back on track – Rajitha

Rajitha

*Is it necessary to nurse, nurture and feed a ‘Maithri dragon’ to escape from MR ? President bringing Police and AG under him is a horrendous joke.!

*A ‘heavyweight’ of AG’s department on the road to perdition ! Refrain from saving murderers for your own good !
*90 cases in cold storage at AG’s dept. after CID and FCID had duly handed over the files years ago after concluding its investigations !

by Zacki Jabbar-September 2, 2017, 7:40 pm 

 In an obvious reference to former Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne says the Attorney General’s Department was back on track now that the "barrier" had been cleared.

  Senaratne said on Friday that there was no allegation of dereliction of duty against the Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya and reports of his being summoned to "Temple Trees" and given a dressing down were false.

 The government only wanted to ensure "distributive and not selective justice", as was seen in the lightening speed with which accusations against former Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake were pursued (at the bond scam commission), while around 75 corruption and other criminal cases, most of which were against some members of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s family and his government, had gathered dust for nearly two years despite investigations being completed, he noted.

 Senaratne claimed that with the "barrier" being removed, a well planned conspiracy to drag criminal cases against the Rajapaksas and their loyalists until 2020 hoping for a change in government had been thwarted.

  There was nothing illegal about a few High Courts conducting only Trial at Bar proceedings to investigate mega corruption and high profile criminal cases for which there was precedent, he observed.

  Senaratne emphasized that the government was not on a witch hunt, but only responding to demands from the masses that its election pledge to bring to justice those who had plundered state resources and used political power to murder people be satisfied.

 Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, he said, had been stripped of his Justice and Buddha Sasana portfolios for violating Collective Cabinet Responsibility by publicly criticizing the Hambantota Port Agreement with China after having endorsed  it when presented to the  Cabinet of Ministers.  

  However Rajapakshe maintains that he was sacked, to cover up alleged irregularities in the issue of Treasury Bonds by the Central Bank in 2015 and 2016.He promised on August 23, to reveal the "true story" behind the Bond issues but nothing has been heard from him since.